Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Black Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $60k
- Granted FY2023
- 3
- Grants FY2023
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2023
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 13
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 3
- Total assets, FY2023
- $580k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Black Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 3 | $60k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $165k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $55k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $84k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $66k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $254k | 73% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $401k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Innovation Collaborative Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 55% |
| Pennsylvania State University | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Association of Small Foundations | $63,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Center for Emergent Diplomacy | $50,000 | 1 | 45% |
| Institute for Sustainable Communities | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Rainforest Connection | $50,000 | 1 | 7% |
| United Way of Erie County | $47,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Urban Sustainability Directors Network | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Perception International | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 28 grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($279k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Black Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Erie Community Foundation · M J Surgala Tr · Greater Erie Economic Development Corporation · Wabtec Foundation · Merwin Foundation · Hamot Health Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
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About Black Family Foundation
- How much does Black Family Foundation give?
- Black Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $60,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Black Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Environment (40%), Philanthropy (26%), Education (25%).
- Who are Black Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Innovation Collaborative Inc ($125k), Pennsylvania State University ($100k), Association of Small Foundations ($64k).
- Does Black Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Black Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Black Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Erie Community Foundation, M J Surgala Tr, Greater Erie Economic Development Corporation.
- Where is Black Family Foundation based?
- Black Family Foundation is based in PA.
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