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Blair Family Foundation at a glance

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Blair Family 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.

$13k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$16kAnimals$14kHuman Services$12kEducation$12kInternational$7kFood & Nutrition$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kCrime & Legal$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$245k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAVEN ROCK RANCH$6,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$6,500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Facing Homelessness: $1k → 9%Summit Community Center: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
NY
PA
CT
CA
DE
DC
HI
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of Blair Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 65% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 52%.

Blair Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25k · 4 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
18

Total granted

$25k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-10%
+90%

Still filing today

25%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesHealthEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • RR
    RAVEN ROCK RANCH
    3× · 2018–2024 · $11k · revenue -10%
  • KH
    KC Henninger Sokol Foundation
    2× · 2021–2022 · $6k
  • TC
    The Camp Assumption-St Bridget Scho
    2× · 2018–2019 · $5k

Funded once

  • SC
    SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +78%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • HR
    Home Refugee Womens Alliance
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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.

1
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
2
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
3
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
4
Disability Rights Washington

Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.

Human Services
5
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
6
Wedontwaste Inc

We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.

Food & Nutrition
7
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
8
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
9
Shelter Animal Resource Alliance

Shelter Animal Resource Alliance rescues, assists, and advocates for shelter animals in Lane County by developing and implementing programs designed to increase the number of animals adopted into permanent, loving homes and decrease the…

Animals
10
Options Pregnancy Resource Centers Inc

Empowering life-affirming decisions

Health
11
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
12
Western Healthconnect

Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Central Kitchen Inc; the most unlike its peers is Raven Rock Ranch. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

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 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KC Henninger Sokol Foundation: $5,500 · OtherKC Henninger Sokol FoundationThe Camp Assumption-St Bridget Scho: $5,000 · OtherThe Camp Assumption-St Bridget SchoST LUKE SCHOOL: $4,000 · OtherST LUKE SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHome Refugee Womens Alliance: $3,000 · OtherHome Refugee Womens AllianceRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK: $3,000 · OtherRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANKIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientESCAPE TO PEACE: $2,000 · OtherOperation Freedom: $2,000 · OtherWINN FOUNDATION: $2,000 · OtherJustin Ebner Endowed Scholarship: $2,000 · OtherCulinary Garden of Waimea School: $1,500 · Other+2 more: $2,000 · OtherRAVEN ROCK RANCH: $10,500 · AnimalsRAVEN ROCK RANCHORCA CONSERVANCY: $3,000 · AnimalsORCA CONSERVANCYMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS F…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL K…SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $3,000 · HealthSUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,000 · Human ServicesFACING HOMELESSNESS: $1,000 · Human ServicesThe Perry Initiative: $2,000 · EducationSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$38,000Animals$13,500International$9,500Health$3,000Human Services$3,000Education$2,000Crime & Legal$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRAVEN ROCK RANCH: $10,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORCA CONSERVANCY: $3,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Perry Initiative: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HOMELESSNESS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 RAVEN ROCK RANCH ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ORCA CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The Perry Initiative ↗
  • Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FACING HOMELESSNESS ↗

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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE8.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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