· Private foundation
Black Family Philanthropies Inc
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, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k5 grants · $476k
- $250k+8 grants · $11M
Anchored by a single position: about 90% of reported assets are held in Apollo Global Management.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $3,265,000 |
| THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL | $2,475,736 |
| NYC HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION | $2,000,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000,000 |
| FOUNTAIN HOUSE | $1,000,000 |
| PROJECT RENEWAL (H&H PILOT) | $370,000 |
| NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST | $250,000 |
| PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| NPOWER INC | $183,500 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT (ONE FOR JUSTICE) | $100,000 |
| JOIN FREEWORLD INC | $80,000 |
| THE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC | $62,500 |
| YOUNGARTS | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 98% of its 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.
6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 6 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RHROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $5.0M · revenue +34%
- NYNEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION2× · 2023–2025 · $5.0M
- FHFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $4.0M · revenue -9%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INCone grant, 2024 · $600k · revenue +20%
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.
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How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 14 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 ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Purdue Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds NPOWER INC ↗
- Who funds JOIN FREEWORLD INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Black Family Philanthropies Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Black Family Philanthropies Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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