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Blackford M M Cotr Ua Art I B 4

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.

$95k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
10%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$9,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$13,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$2.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Blackford M M Cotr Ua Art I B 4 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$95k8%
FY202410$82k10%
FY202312$89k17%
FY20229$97k33%
FY20218$79k13%
FY20209$84k0%
FY201911$88k9%
FY20189$79k22%
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$279kHealth$215kHuman Services$163kEducation$17kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Blackford M M Cotr Ua Art I B 4 by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Arts for Learning Connecticut$71,50082%
Communication Advocacy Network Corp$64,00075%
Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation Inc$64,00070%
National Federation of the Blind of Connecticut$40,10085%
Hartford Artisans Weaving Center Inc$35,30044%
Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc$28,00031%
Hartford Stage Company Inc$24,00050%
New Haven Symphony Orchestra Inc$21,50040%
Yale University$12,0002n/a
Connecticut Radio Information System Inc$9,50012%
Yale University$5,0001n/a

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($399k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Blackford M M Cotr Ua Art I B 4 supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArts for Learning Connecticut: $71,500 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCommunication Advocacy Network Corp: $64,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetFidelco Guide Dog Foundation Inc: $64,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNational Federation of the Blind of Connecticut: $40,100 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetHartford Artisans Weaving Center Inc: $35,300 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetNeighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc: $28,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHartford Stage Company Inc: $24,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNew Haven Symphony Orchestra Inc: $21,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetConnecticut Radio Information System Inc: $9,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Connecticut Humanities Council IncCT15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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Find your warmest path to Blackford M M Cotr Ua Art I B 4 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Blackford M M Cotr Ua Art I B 4

How much does Blackford M M Cotr Ua Art I B 4 give?
Blackford M M Cotr Ua Art I B 4 reported 12 grants totaling $95,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Blackford M M Cotr Ua Art I B 4 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Health (28%), Human Services (21%).
Who are Blackford M M Cotr Ua Art I B 4's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Arts for Learning Connecticut ($72k), Communication Advocacy Network Corp ($64k), Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation Inc ($64k).
Does Blackford M M Cotr Ua Art I B 4 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Blackford M M Cotr Ua Art I B 4 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 Blackford M M Cotr Ua Art I B 4?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Connecticut Humanities Council Inc, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc.
Where is Blackford M M Cotr Ua Art I B 4 based?
Blackford M M Cotr Ua Art I B 4 is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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