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Be Blac Foundation

Our mission is to develop and grow the black community through generational leadership, partnering and supporting black-owned, run, and operated businesses/nonprofits, and strengthening black families.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Community Improvement$112kHuman Services$7kFood & Nutrition$6k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$224k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NOT JUST FUNDRAISING$7,500
TENDER LOVE AND CHILDCARE$6,500
KELLY-FIELD LAWNCARE & MORE$6,500
THE WAY CLEANING ENTERPRISES LLC$6,500
SONIKA'S HOUSE OF BEAUTY LLC$6,500
WHOLE LOTTA ENTERPRISES LLC$6,000
FIERCE KINGDOM APPAREL$5,500
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 (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NOT JUST FUNDRAISING: $8k → 13%WHOLLY UNDIGNIFIED: $8k → 14%NOT JUST FUNDRAISING: $8k → 13%SONIKA'S HOUSE OF BEAUTY LLC: $8k → 14%KELLY-FIELD LAWNCARE & MORE: $7k → 13%KTZ LLC: $8k → 14%STEWBERRY'S BAKERY: $8k → 13%BRWN SUGA HAIR AND BODY: $8k → 14%TENDER LOVE AND CHILDCARE: $7k → 14%SONIKA'S HOUSE OF BEAUTY LLC: $7k → 14%PASTA BOSS LLC: $6k → 14%HAVENROSE REAL ESTATE: $8k → 14%THE WAY CLEANING ENTERPRISES LLC: $7k → 14%KINGDOM CITY COFFEEHOUSE: $6k → 14%ORIGINAL COURT ST DAIRY LUNCH: $6k → 14%WHOLE LOTTA ENTERPRISES LLC: $6k → 14%POLAR EXPRESS LLC: $8k → 14%FIERCE KINGDOM APPAREL: $6k → 14%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.
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 field
04the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2024–2025.

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

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2024 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 16 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NOT JUST FUNDRAISING: $15,200 · OtherNOT JUST FUNDRAISINGSONIKA'S HOUSE OF BEAUTY LLC: $14,200 · OtherSONIKA'S HOUSE OF BEAUTY LLCSTEWBERRY'S BAKERY: $8,000 · OtherSTEWBERRY'S BAKERYKTZ LLC: $7,700 · OtherKTZ LLCBRWN SUGA HAIR AND BODY: $7,700 · OtherBRWN SUGA HAIR AND BODYHAVENROSE REAL ESTATE: $7,700 · OtherHAVENROSE REAL ESTATEIndividual grant recipient: $7,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPOLAR EXPRESS LLC: $7,700 · OtherPOLAR EXPRESS LLCKELLY-FIELD LAWNCARE & MORE: $6,500 · OtherTHE WAY CLEANING ENTERPRISES LLC: $6,500 · OtherTENDER LOVE AND CHILDCARE: $6,500 · OtherWHOLE LOTTA ENTERPRISES LLC: $6,000 · OtherORIGINAL COURT ST DAIRY LUNCH: $6,000 · OtherPASTA BOSS LLC: $6,000 · OtherKINGDOM CITY COFFEEHOUSE: $6,000 · OtherFIERCE KINGDOM APPAREL: $5,500 · Other
Other$124,900

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

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How do I get to Be Blac Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Be Blac Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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 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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