· Private foundation
Betty and Leo Blazok 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $267k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 6 501c3 ORGANIZATIONS | $26,500 |
| GROSSE ILE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| CHRISTNET | $20,000 |
| GROSSE ILE EEDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TRENTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY DETROIT | $10,000 |
| METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| MERCY HOUSE ANN ARBOR MISSION | $10,000 |
| LIVING AND LEARNING CENTER | $10,000 |
| GROSSE ILE BAND BOOSTERS | $10,000 |
| WOODHAVEN BAND BOOSTERS | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 89% 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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
- GIGrosse Ile Educational Foundation Inc5× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +4%
- TETRENTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +74%
- MCMethodist Children's Home Society3× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $15k
- WBWOODHAVEN BROWNSTOWN ED FDNone grant, 2021 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
Educational.
To be a champion for parents of children in the community.
Receives, invests, and disburse contributions raised to support Michigan Technological University.
Clean Jobs for Michigan is building a future we can all be proud of. Through advocating for clean water clean energy and good-paying clean jobs were working to build a Michigan that will sustain our natural resources and hardworking…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Fragile X Association of Michigan unites the MI Fragile X community to: Enrich lives through educational & emotional support, promote public and professional awareness, advance research toward improved treatments and a cure for fragile X…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Woodhaven Band Boosters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 51 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 Grosse Ile Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TRENTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTNET ↗
- Who funds Methodist Children's Home Society ↗
- Who funds WOODHAVEN BAND BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN DONOR FAMILY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ASM INTERNATIONAL-DETROIT CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Betty and Leo Blazok 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.
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.