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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 it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
FLORIDA REPERTORY THEATRE$6,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LEE & HENDR$6,000
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK$6,000
SAMARITAN HOUSE$5,000
CIVIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$5,000
ASHTABULA ART CENTER$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
LEADERSHIP$5,000
DREAM CENTER$4,000
NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER$3,000
BRIDGES 2 HOPE$3,000
ASHTABULA UNDERGROUND RR MUSEUM$3,000
CHABAD OF SE MORRIS COUNTY$2,000
INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL ARTS$2,000
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.

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Its 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 its 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
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
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

  • 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
  • TW
    THE WALDORF SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +24%
  • BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +11%
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
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

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northampton Survival Center Inc; 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 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. 9 of the 25 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAMARITAN HOUSE: $25,000 · OtherSAMARITAN HOUSECIVIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 · OtherCIVIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $20,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYLEADERSHIP: $20,000 · OtherLEADERSHIPDREAM 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTHE WALDORF SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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 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 THE WALDORF SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC ↗
  • Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds ASHTABULA DREAM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHABAD OF SE MORRIS COUNTY INC ↗

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.

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

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 Blanchard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blanchard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • Boston Area Gleaners Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Northampton Survival Center Inc: 3% 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, 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.
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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 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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