Michigan · 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.
- $272k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $26,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Betty and Leo Blazok Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $272k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $200k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $190k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $303k | 92% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $60k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $80k | 83% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $10k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grosse Ile Presbyterian Church | $150,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Salvation Army | $95,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Grosse Ile Educational Foundation Inc | $80,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Trenton Educational Foundation | $70,000 | 5 | 25% |
| Christnet | $45,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Methodist Children's Home Society | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Faith United Methodist Church | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Woodhaven Band Boosters | $25,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Michigan Donor Family Council | $20,000 | 2 | 30% |
| Asm International-Detroit Chapter | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grosse Ile Presbyterian Church | $150,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Salvation Army | $95,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Grosse Ile Educational Foundation Inc | $80,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Trenton Educational Foundation | $70,000 | 5 | 25% |
| Christnet | $45,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Methodist Children's Home Society | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Faith United Methodist Church | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Woodhaven Band Boosters | $25,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Michigan Donor Family Council | $20,000 | 2 | 30% |
| Asm International-Detroit Chapter | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Breakthrough T1d | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Michigan State University | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Paws With A Cause | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| March of Dimes Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Grosse Ile Music Boosters | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| THE COOKIE PROJECT dba MI Cookie Project | $5,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Michigan Humane Society | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($504k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Betty and Leo Blazok Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About Betty and Leo Blazok Foundation
- How much does Betty and Leo Blazok Foundation give?
- Betty and Leo Blazok Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $271,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Betty and Leo Blazok Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Education (19%), Religion (16%).
- Who are Betty and Leo Blazok Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Grosse Ile Presbyterian Church ($150k), Salvation Army ($95k), Grosse Ile Educational Foundation Inc ($80k).
- Does Betty and Leo Blazok Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Betty and Leo Blazok Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Betty and Leo Blazok Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Betty and Leo Blazok Foundation based?
- Betty and Leo Blazok Foundation is based in MI.
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