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Baruch S Blumberg Institute

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$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$700k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$6.2MScience & Tech$2.3MEducation$444k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $101k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $360k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
$89,464
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION$700,000
BUCKS COUNTY BIOTECHNOLOGY CENTER INC$278,038
CHARLES RIVER LABS$263,473
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$204,890
GENELANCET BIOSCIENCES INC$89,464
CURIA GLOBAL$65,866
PHARMARON$40,551
UTAH STATE UNVIVERSITY$40,494
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY$20,234
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 20% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VIVALDI THERAPEUTICS INC: $500k → 10%HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION: $700k → 6%LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $26k → 7%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $46k → 22%CHARLES RIVER LABS: $263k → 16%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $147k → 14%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $92k → 17%LADDER THERAPEUTICS INC: $500k → 8%UTAH STATE UNVIVERSITY: $191k → 12%GENEVA FOUNDATION: $176k → 9%BIOLATTICE OPTHALMICS INC: $100k → 6%THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $53k → 19%VIRION THERAPEUTICS LLC: $100k → 10%HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION: $600k → 6%LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $14k → 7%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $40k → 22%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $48k → 14%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $49k → 17%UTAH STATE UNVIVERSITY: $122k → 12%GENEVA FOUNDATION: $73k → 9%THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $48k → 19%HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION: $600k → 6%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $39k → 22%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $17k → 14%UTAH STATE UNVIVERSITY: $60k → 12%THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $44k → 19%HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION: $420k → 6%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $39k → 22%UTAH STATE UNVIVERSITY: $40k → 12%THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $30k → 19%HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION: $420k → 6%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $34k → 22%UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $21k → 12%THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $26k → 19%HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION: $420k → 6%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $20k → 22%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $92k → 19%HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION: $360k → 6%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $13k → 22%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $18k → 19%HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION: $360k → 6%HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION: $360k → 6%BUCKS COUNTY BIOTECHNOLOGY CENTER INC: $278k → 6%JBS SCIENCE: $111k → 6%JBS SCIENCE: $99k → 6%GENELANCET BIOSCIENCES INC: $89k → 6%GENELANCET BIOSCIENCES INC: $77k → 6%JBS SCIENCE: $45k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.0M · 13 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
6

Total granted

$7.0M
$1.3M

Still filing today

62%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $542k 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
EducationHealthScience & TechOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • HB
    HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +94%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $515k · revenue +64%
  • GF
    GENEVA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $249k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • LT
    LADDER THERAPEUTICS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $500k
  • VT
    VIVALDI THERAPEUTICS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $500k
  • PA
    PACE ANALYTICAL LIFE SCIENCES LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $117k

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Philadelphia University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education
3
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
4
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
6
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
7
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
8
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
9
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
10
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
11
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
12
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Thomas Jefferson University. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION — $4,240,000 · HealthHEPATITIS B FOUNDATIONBUCKS COUNTY BIOTECHNOLOGY CENTER INC — $278,038 · HealthBUCKS COUNTY BIOTECHNOLOGY CENTER INCLADDER THERAPEUTICS INC — $500,000 · OtherLADDER THERAPEUTICS INCVIVALDI THERAPEUTICS INC — $500,000 · OtherVIVALDI THERAPEUTICS INCCURIA GLOBAL INC — $443,621 · OtherCURIA GLOBAL INCUTAH STATE UNIVERSITY — $433,259 · OtherUTAH STATE UNIVERSITYCHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INC — $263,473 · OtherCHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INCJBS SCIENCE — $254,390 · OtherJBS SCIENCEGENELANCET BIOSCIENCES INC — $166,426 · OtherGENELANCET BIOSCIENCES INCPACE ANALYTICAL LIFE SCIENCES LLC — $117,278 · Other+5 more — $328,889 · Other+5 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $515,199 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS …THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $231,718 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERS…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $212,493 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNI…THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $140,192 · EducationTHE MEDICAL CO…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $50,000 · Education+1 more — $9,169 · EducationGENEVA FOUNDATION — $249,002 · Science & Tech
Health$4,518,038Other$3,007,336Education$1,158,771Science & Tech$249,002

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHEPATITIS B FOUNDATION — $4,240,000 over 9y, 20% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $515,199 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY BIOTECHNOLOGY CENTER INC — $278,038 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetGENEVA FOUNDATION — $249,002 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $231,718 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $212,493 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $140,192 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAlbert Einstein College of Medicine — $9,169 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

  • Who funds HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds BUCKS COUNTY BIOTECHNOLOGY CENTER INC
  • Who funds GENEVA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
  • Who funds Albert Einstein College of Medicine

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

The Scripps Research InstituteCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Scripps Research Institute

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Baruch S Blumberg Institute funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Baruch S Blumberg Institute?

Find your warmest path to Baruch S Blumberg Institute through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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