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Bbl Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $192k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| CAPITAL REGION BOCES | $25,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION OF ST MARY'S HEALTHCARE | $25,000 |
| ADVENTHEALTH WESLEY CHAPEL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SEAT CENTER | $21,000 |
| ALBANY LAW SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| ST GREGORY'S SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| EAST GREENBUSH EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST PETER'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SIENA COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| SOUTH END CHILDREN'S CAFE | $10,000 |
| LIBERTY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| BROADVIEW CARES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UTICA COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| CAPITAL DISTRICT YMCA | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $456k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SPST PETER'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +46%
- TFTHE FOUNDATION OF ST MARY'S HEALTHCARE6× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +39%
- NRNORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SERVICES INC5× · 2019–2024 · $106k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- WOWORLD OF LIFE BIBLE INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $25k
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +16%
- NANORTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF THE BLINDone grant, 2019 · $12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
An academic health sciences system whose responsibilities are to provide a broad range of patient services to the people of eastern new york and western new england.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, syracuse university faculty and…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Albany Academies Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Heritage Home for Women. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
93 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 93 of the 159 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 COLONIE SENIOR SERVICES CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ST PETER'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF ST MARY'S HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds UTICA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT (4416) ↗
- Who funds SIENA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE ALBANY ACADEMIES INC ↗
- Who funds MOHAWK & HUDSON RIVER HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA-1 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALBANY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ELLIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC THE FOUNDATION FOR ELLIS MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH INC ↗
- Who funds EAST GREENBUSH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE ↗
- Who funds KIPP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIA COLLEGE ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Review Foundation · Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · Rose & Kiernan Charitable Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Capital Communications Cares Foundation · Sunmark Charitable Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation
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 Bbl Charitable Foundation 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.
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Camillus House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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