· Private foundation
Bill Block Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $545k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $75,000 |
| OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY | $75,000 |
| NW MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF TILLAMOOK | $50,000 |
| BLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| DAV - DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS | $50,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA | $50,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $50,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $50,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD CHARITIES OF S ARIZ | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PIMA ANIMAL CARE CENTER | $50,000 |
| MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
25 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $475k 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
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $142k · revenue +26%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN7× · 2018–2024 · $135k · revenue +94%- HSHumane Society of Southern Arizona8× · 2017–2024 · $117k · revenue +46%
Funded once
Mercy Ships Internationalgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +115%- NVNESTUCCA VALLEY EARLY LEARNING CENTone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Rescue, rehabilitate and rehome companion animals
To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…
House, provide veterinary care, and find suitable homes for homeless, neglected, and abused domestic animals; and reduce the number of unwanted domestic animals through aggressive spay/neuter programs
To bring about a time when there are no more homeless pets. we do this by demonstrating and promoting exemplary animal care and building community programs and partnerships.
Decrease over population of feral cats by trapping and doing spay or neuter. Provide veterinarian care to kittens. Take owner relinquishments of pets they can no longer care for. Taking in abandoned animals and providing veterinary care.…
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
Rescue and rehoming of retrievers and retriever mixes
To reduce animal cruelty and suffering, with emphasis on providing low-cost spay/neuter and wellness services. Specifically, WAGs goal is to reduce pet overpopulation through our high-quality, high-volume, low-cost spay/neuter clinic in…
At humane society silicon valley, our mission is to save lives, keep families together, and create a better future for pets and their people.(see schedule o for continuation)
Dog Gone Seattle is a Washington-based nonprofit organization dedicated to saving homeless dogs in high-kill shelters in Washington and beyond through rescue, foster, and adoption. We are a foster-based organization, and our rescue is 100%…
The Rogue Valley Humane Society provides compassionate care for stray unwanted displaced and abandoned animals and works toward ending pet overpopulation so that there will be no more homeless pets. We are committed to placing every…
Sheltering, facilitation of neutering, medical services and adoption of cats and dogs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maui Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Oregon Reign Fastpitch Softball. 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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 47 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 OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Southern Arizona ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON COAST SCENIC RAILROAD ↗
- Who funds Friends of Pima Animal Care Center ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Tillamook Animal Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS FOR SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD CITY SEQUOIA AWARDS INC ↗
- Who funds Leilani Farm Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL HAVEN BY THE SEA ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE DIVISION INC ↗
- Who funds UKANDU ↗
- Who funds MARIE MILLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Integrative Touch ↗
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 Oregon Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Bill Block 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad — 7% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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