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Blanchard Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$76k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Arts & Culture$114kHousing & Shelter$66kHuman Services$47kFood & Nutrition$41kCommunity Improvement$25kEducation$15kPublic Benefit$5kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CENTER FOR CREATIVE EXPORATION$14,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LEE & HENDR$6,000
FLORIDA REPERTORY THEATRE$6,000
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK$6,000
ASHTABULA ART CENTER$5,000
LEADERSHIP$5,000
SAMARITAN HOUSE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CIVIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$5,000
DREAM CENTER$4,000
ASHTABULA UNDERGROUND RR MUSEUM$3,000
NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER$3,000
BRIDGES 2 HOPE$3,000
CHABAD OF SE MORRIS COUNTY$2,000
INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL ARTS$2,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $3k → 12%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $3k → 12%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $2k → 12%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $2k → 12%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$293k · 14 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$293k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+11%

Still filing today

29%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CF
    Center for Creative Exploration
    5× · 2021–2025 · $69k · revenue +42%
  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc
    3× · 2022–2025 · $46k · revenue +26%
  • AA
    ASHTABULA ARTS CENTER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +11%
  • TW
    THE WALDORF SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +24%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
Hawaii Foodbank Inc

Hawaii foodbank, inc. is a nonprofit organization established to collect, warehouse and distribute salvageable food to social agencies that feed the needy of hawaii. the company is a certified member of feeding america, a nonprofit…

Food & Nutrition
3
360 Eats

We strive to end hunger and food waste in the Tampa Bay community through innovative solutions that rescue and redistribute fresh, healthy surplus food, while also providing job training for those facing employment barriers.

Food & Nutrition
4
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
5
Good Shepherd Food Bank

The mission of Good Shepherd Food Bank is to eliminate hunger in Maine by improving access to nutritious and culturally relevant food for people in need, building strong community partnerships, and mobilizing the public in the fight to end…

Food & Nutrition
6
Heart of Alabama Food Bank Inc

The food bank operates as a clearing house for the collecting, sorting, storing and distribution of edible food to qualified agencies; who in turn pass the food along to alabama's "food insecure" citizens.

Food & Nutrition
7
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

8
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
9
West Side Center for Community Life

To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…

Youth Development
10
Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc

The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.

Food & Nutrition
11
Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc

Dedicated to alleviating hunger through acquisition and distribution of food and grocery products, community education to the causes and consequences of hunger, and meaningful action on behalf of people in need of food.

12
Arlington Food Assistance Center

To provide dignified access to free groceries for qualified families in Arlington, VA and surrounding counties.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northampton Survival Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Center for Creative Exploration. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CIVIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $25,000 · OtherCIVIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAMARITAN HOUSE — $25,000 · OtherSAMARITAN HOUSELEADERSHIP — $20,000 · OtherLEADERSHIPHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $20,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYDREAM CENTER — $16,000 · OtherDREAM CENTERSNOW FARM — $8,500 · OtherINSTITUE OF MUSICAL ARTS — $6,500 · Other+9 more — $35,000 · Other+9 moreCenter for Creative Exploration — $69,000 · Arts & CultureCenter for Creative Exploratio…ASHTABULA ARTS CENTER — $25,000 · Arts & CultureASHTABULA ARTS CENTER+1 more — $2,000 · Arts & CultureHabitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc — $46,000 · Housing & ShelterHabitat for Hu…BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $6,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesTHE WALDORF SCHOOL INC — $10,000 · Education
Other$181,000Arts & Culture$96,000Housing & Shelter$46,000Food & Nutrition$16,000Human Services$12,000Education$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCenter for Creative Exploration — $69,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetHabitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc — $46,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASHTABULA ARTS CENTER — $25,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC — $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WALDORF SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASHTABULA DREAM CENTER — $4,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Center for Creative Exploration
  • Who funds Habitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc
  • Who funds ASHTABULA ARTS CENTER
  • Who funds NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC
  • Who funds THE WALDORF SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC
  • Who funds ASHTABULA DREAM CENTER
  • Who funds CHABAD OF SE MORRIS COUNTY INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA9.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Blanchard Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 20%
  • Boston Area Gleaners Inc20% of income from government
  • Northampton Survival Center Inc3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Blanchard Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Blanchard Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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