Virginia · Private foundation
Blackburn Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $470k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $212,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $712k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations Blackburn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $470k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $464k | 55% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $333k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $161k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $331k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $244k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $202k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $122k | 57% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inova Health Care Services | $195,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Nature Sacred | $50,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Campagna Center Inc | $48,000 | 6 | 0% |
| For the Win Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 40% |
| St Stephen's and St Agnes School Foundation | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Broadcasters Foundation of America | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Washington Jesuit Academy | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United Community Ministries Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Alexandria Symphony Orchestra | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mount Vernon at Home Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inova Health Care Services | $195,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Nature Sacred | $50,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Campagna Center Inc | $48,000 | 6 | 0% |
| For the Win Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 40% |
| St Stephen's and St Agnes School Foundation | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Broadcasters Foundation of America | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Washington Jesuit Academy | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United Community Ministries Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Alexandria Symphony Orchestra | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mount Vernon at Home Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Alexandria Seaport Foundation | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Coletta of Greater Washington Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Menokin Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Old Presbyterian Meeting House | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Little Sisters of the Poor of Washington DC Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Blackburn Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Act for Alexandria · The Howard Family Foundation · Ivakota Assoc Inc · Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About Blackburn Foundation
- How much does Blackburn Foundation give?
- Blackburn Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $469,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Blackburn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Religion (38%), Health (12%).
- Who are Blackburn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Inova Health Care Services ($195k), Nature Sacred ($50k), The Campagna Center Inc ($48k).
- Does Blackburn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Blackburn Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Blackburn Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Act for Alexandria, The Howard Family Foundation, Ivakota Assoc Inc.
- Where is Blackburn Foundation based?
- Blackburn Foundation is based in VA.
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