Missouri · Private foundation
Blank Allan and Margot Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $225k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Blank Allan and Margot Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k 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 | 20 | $225k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $216k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $245k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $253k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $227k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $175k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $250k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $245k | 58% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Visual Arts Center of Richmond | $167,000 | 9 | 1% |
| ART 180 Inc | $155,000 | 8 | 3% |
| 1708 Gallery Inc | $142,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Greater Richmond Children's Choir | $96,000 | 5 | 36% |
| Tamworth Music Festival | $85,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Classical Revolution Rva | $70,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Victory Hall Opera | $43,600 | 6 | 8% |
| James River Singers Inc | $40,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Music Orchard Inc | $36,000 | 2 | 25% |
| Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Visual Arts Center of Richmond | $167,000 | 9 | 1% |
| ART 180 Inc | $155,000 | 8 | 3% |
| 1708 Gallery Inc | $142,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Greater Richmond Children's Choir | $96,000 | 5 | 36% |
| Tamworth Music Festival | $85,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Classical Revolution Rva | $70,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Victory Hall Opera | $43,600 | 6 | 8% |
| James River Singers Inc | $40,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Music Orchard Inc | $36,000 | 2 | 25% |
| Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Richmond Chamber Players Inc | $35,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Richmond Symphony | $28,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Artspace | $25,000 | 2 | 18% |
| Belvedere Series | $24,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Atlantic Chamber Ensemble | $20,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Richmond Allied Voices Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Wintergreen Performing Arts Inc | $18,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Cayambis Institute for Latin American Studies in Music | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bon Air Presbyterian Church | $14,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Winchester Musica Viva Inc | $12,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Fuse Ensemble Arts Collective | $12,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Virginia Commonwealth University Foundat | $11,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jefferson Baroque Orchestra Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Appalachian Chamber Music Co | $6,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Alleghany Highlands Arts and Crafts Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Workhouse Arts Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| City of Richmond Public Library Foundation | $4,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Loon Lake Live Inc | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Richmond Hill Incorporated | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($902k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Blank Allan and Margot Fdn supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Community Foundation Inc · Robins Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · CultureWorks Inc · Windsor Fdn Trust Uw Quincy Cole · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Herndon Foundation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation
How this is measured
About Blank Allan and Margot Fdn
- How much does Blank Allan and Margot Fdn give?
- Blank Allan and Margot Fdn reported 20 grants totaling $225,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Blank Allan and Margot Fdn fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (59%), Education (33%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are Blank Allan and Margot Fdn's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Visual Arts Center of Richmond ($167k), ART 180 Inc ($155k), 1708 Gallery Inc ($142k).
- Does Blank Allan and Margot Fdn fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Blank Allan and Margot Fdn accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Blank Allan and Margot Fdn?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Robins Foundation, Richard S Reynolds Foundation.
- Where is Blank Allan and Margot Fdn based?
- Blank Allan and Margot Fdn is based in MO.
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