How much does Bill Block Foundation give?

Bill Block Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $1,300,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Bill Block Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (26%), Animals (25%), Human Services (17%).

Who are Bill Block Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Oregon Humane Society ($142k), Shriners Hospitals for Children ($135k), Humane Society of Southern Arizona ($117k).

Does Bill Block Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Bill Block 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 Bill Block Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Network for Good.

Where is Bill Block Foundation based?

Bill Block Foundation is based in OR.

Bill Block Foundation

Bill Block Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$1.3M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$75k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$519kAnimals$484kHuman Services$340kEducation$125kArts & Culture$111kPublic Benefit$95kFood & Nutrition$50kPhilanthropy$50kOther$0

02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k26 grants · $545k
$50k–250k14 grants · $750k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$39M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN	$75,000
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY	$75,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	$50,000
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION	$50,000
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION	$50,000
HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$50,000
FRIENDS OF PIMA ANIMAL CARE CENTER	$50,000
BLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION	$50,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS	$50,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA	$50,000
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND	$50,000
RONALD MCDONALD CHARITIES OF S ARIZ	$50,000
NW MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF TILLAMOOK	$50,000
DAV - DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS	$50,000
MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY	$30,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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 grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 25 repeat orgs$490k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%

+87%

Still filing today

60%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $475k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

AnimalsHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 SOCIETY
8× · 2017–2024 · $142k · revenue +26%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
7× · 2018–2024 · $135k · revenue +94%
HS
Humane Society of Southern Arizona
8× · 2017–2024 · $117k · revenue +46%

Funded once

Mercy Ships Internationalgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +87%
NV
NESTUCCA VALLEY EARLY LEARNING CENT
one grant, 2020 · $5k

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.

04Its field

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.

Oregon Friends of Shelter Animals

Rescue, rehabilitate and rehome companion animals

Animals

World Vets

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…

Animals

Forget Me Not Animal Shelter of Ferry County

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

Animals

Best Friends Animal Society

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.

Animals

Sos Lost Pet Rescue Nw Inc

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.…

Animals

The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals

Golden Bond Rescue of Oregon Inc

Rescue and rehoming of retrievers and retriever mixes

Unclassified

Willamette Animal Guild

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…

Animals

Humane Society Silicon Valley

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)

Animals

Dog Gone Seattle

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%…

Animals

Rogue Valley Humane Society

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…

Animals

Friends of Seal Beach Animal Care Center Inc

Sheltering, facilitation of neutering, medical services and adoption of cats and dogs

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maui Humane Society; 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.

04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/30

Grantees still filing

19/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$826,000Animals$419,000Health$285,000Philanthropy$170,000Human Services$105,000Education$85,000Arts & Culture$76,000

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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bill Block Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bill Block Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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