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B&L Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0180% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$354kInternational$196kReligion$124kArts & Culture$75kHealth$9kYouth Development$1kFood & Nutrition$600Science & Tech$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$400
Median grant
4
States reached
$515k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LDS CHURCH$9,800
USA FOR UNHCR$400
BASHA HIGH SCHOOL$300
Individual grant recipient$300
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 45% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%REACH HUMANITY: $10k → 11%WEST CHESTER CHILDREN'S CHOIR: $10k → 6%DONORSCHOOSEORG: $2k → 10%DEL MAR SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATIO: $2k → 11%BYU HAWAII: $66k → 9%LIVING TREE: $1k → 10%GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 9%DAYS FOR GIRLS: $1k → 12%REACH HUMANITY: $5k → 11%BYU HAWAII: $50k → 9%BASHA HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 11%BYU HAWAII: $30k → 9%LDS CHURCH: $31k → 8%LIFTING HANDS INTERNATIONAL: $40k → 10%LDS CHURCH: $16k → 8%LIFTING HANDS INTERNATIONAL: $40k → 10%LDS CHURCH: $15k → 8%LIFTING HANDS INTERNATIONAL: $27k → 10%MARINE SCIENCE AFLOAT: $1k → 9%CTA HUMPHREY: $1k → 11%LDS CHURCH: $12k → 8%LDS PHILANTHROPIES: $170k → 8%LIFTING HANDS INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 10%WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL: $9k → 9%DEL MAR SCHOOLDS EDU FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%LDS CHURCH: $11k → 8%LIFTING HANDS INTERNATIONAL: $19k → 10%THURGOOD MARSHALL ELEMENTARY: $9k → 9%LDS CHURCH: $11k → 8%LIFTING HANDS INTERNATIONAL: $17k → 10%WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL: $5k → 9%DEL MAR SCHOOLS EDU FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%LDS CHURCH: $10k → 8%LIFTING HANDS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 10%THURGOOD MARSHALL ELEMENTARY: $5k → 9%LDS CHURCH: $10k → 8%LIFTING HANDS INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 10%SEATLE GIRLS CHOIR: $6k → 9%LDS CHURCH: $8k → 8%THURGOOD MARSHALL: $3k → 9%LDS BUSINESS COLLEGE: $60k → 8%SEATLE GIRLS CHOIR: $6k → 9%FRIENDS OF WASHINGTON MUSIC: $2k → 9%SEATLE GIRLS CHOIR: $3k → 9%SEATLE GIRLS CHOIR: $3k → 9%FIRST WASHINGTON ROBOTICS: $8k → 9%FIRST WASHINGTON ROBOTICS: $4k → 9%FIRST WASHINGTON ROBOTICS: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
PA
NJ
CA
UT
AZ
DC
HI
OK
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$552k · 22 repeat orgs$260k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
25

Total granted

$552k
$260k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-48%
+38%

Still filing today

23%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LH
    Lifting Hands International
    8× · 2017–2024 · $179k · revenue ×13
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2017–2020 · $146k
  • LC
    LDS CHURCH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $124k

Funded once

  • LP
    LDS PHILANTHROPIES
    one grant, 2017 · $170k
  • EC
    ENSIGN COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $60k
  • WC
    WEST CHESTER CHILDREN'S CHOIR
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Emergency Medical Services at the University of Washington
Health
2
Seattle JazzED

Through Jazz education that liberates and inspires, Seattle JazzED increase access in the music room, celebrates student expression, and builds lasting connection rooted in community.

Arts & Culture
3
Mary's Meals Usa Inc

To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises…

International
4
San Francisco High School of the Arts

San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…

Education
5
Refugee Education and Adventure Challenge (Reach)

To provide refugee youth and families with experential learning opppotunites focused on STEAM education and adventure sports.

Human Services
6
District of Columbia International School

To inspire inquiring, engaged, knowledgeable and caring secondary students who are multilingual, culturally competent, and committed to proactively creating a socially just and sustainable world.

Education
7
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
8
Alameda Education Foundation

AEF serves as a critical bridge toward equitable and inclusive educational outcomes for Alameda TK-12 public school students.

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9
Alliance for Education

Our mission is to support excellence in education by advancing educational justice and racial equity for students in Seattle Public Schools.

Education
10
Burma Humanitarian Mission

Burma Humanitarian Mission provides medicine training to backpack medics who provide health care to isolated villages in Burma. In 2024, we provided support 50 teams with more than 3.2 million doses of medicine. We support training 40 new…

Human Services
11
Holocaust Center for Humanity

The Holocaust Center for Humanity teaches the lessons of the Holocaust, inspiring students of all ages to confront bigotry and indifference, promote human dignity, and take action.

—
12
Live It Learn It

LILI partners with public schools and cultural institutions to create and deliver experiential learning opportunities for students in order to increase their self-efficacy, build on their intrinsic motivation, and support their scholarly…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Del Mar Schools Education Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Washington Music. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LDS PHILANTHROPIES: $170,000 · OtherLDS PHILANTHROPIESIndividual grant recipient: $145,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLDS CHURCH: $124,374 · OtherLDS CHURCHENSIGN COLLEGE: $60,000 · OtherENSIGN COLLEGE+33 more: $110,801 · Other+33 moreLifting Hands International: $178,798 · InternationalLifting Hands Internation…+2 more: $1,400 · InternationalREACH HUMANITY INC: $15,000 · Health+2 more: $201 · HealthFRIENDS OF WASHINGTON MUSIC: $2,700 · Arts & CultureFriends of Garfield Orchestra: $1,000 · Arts & CultureDEL MAR SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,600 · EducationGuajome Park Academy: $150 · EducationFOOD LIFELINE: $600 · Food & NutritionMaris Place: $500 · Youth Development
Other$610,675International$180,198Health$15,201Arts & Culture$3,700Education$1,750Food & Nutrition$600Youth Development$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLifting Hands International: $178,798 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetREACH HUMANITY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetThurgood Marshall PTA: $3,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF WASHINGTON MUSIC: $2,700 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetDEL MAR SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDays For Girls International: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590: $980 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaris Place: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuajome Park Academy: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $101 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Lifting Hands International ↗
  • Who funds REACH HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Thurgood Marshall PTA ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF WASHINGTON MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds DEL MAR SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Days For Girls International ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Garfield Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590 ↗
  • Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
  • Who funds Maris Place ↗
  • Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization B&L Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from B&L Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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