· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| GROSSE ILE EEDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TRENTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| CHRISTNET | $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 |
| GROSSE ILE BAND BOOSTERS | $10,000 |
| WOODHAVEN BAND BOOSTERS | $10,000 |
| MICHIGAN DONOR FAMILY COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FDN | $10,000 |
| METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GIGrosse Ile Educational Foundation Inc5× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +9%
- TETRENTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +74%
- MCMethodist Children's Home Society3× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- WBWOODHAVEN BROWNSTOWN ED FDNone grant, 2021 · $15k
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $15k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Betty and Leo Blazok Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Betty and Leo Blazok Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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