· Private foundation
Blank Allan and Margot Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUN | $70,000 |
| GREATER RICHMOND CHILDRENS CHOIR | $18,000 |
| MUSIC ORCHARD | $18,000 |
| ART 180 INC | $15,000 |
| ARTSPACE | $15,000 |
| 1708 GALLERY INC | $12,000 |
| VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND | $12,000 |
| TAMWORTH MUSIC FESTIVAL INC | $10,000 |
| BELVEDERE SERIES | $8,000 |
| FUSE ENSEMBLE ARTS COLLECTIVE | $7,000 |
| VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUND | $7,000 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF CENTRAL VA | $6,000 |
| LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC | $5,000 |
| VICTORY HALL OPERA | $5,000 |
| LOON LAKE LIVE INC | $4,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TVTHE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND9× · 2017–2025 · $167k · revenue +165%
- TMTAMWORTH MUSIC FESTIVAL7× · 2018–2025 · $85k · revenue +62%
- RCRichmond Chamber Players Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $35k · revenue ×807
Funded once
- ODOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONALone grant, 2024 · $70k
- TMTAMWORTH MUSIC FESTIVALone grant, 2017 · $22k
- VCVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +40%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
The orchestra's mission is to perform fine music with highest artistic integrity for the broadest possible audience.
Promote the master musical choral
Shape the cultural life of our region by delivering exceptional, inclusive music experiences that enrich, entertain and educate.
Choral music, racial reconciliation and education through singing the beauty and power of diversity.
To foster enjoyment and education about chorale art and perform choral music by the highest caliber of professional singers.
Hosts an annual French Film Festival during four days every March where French filmmakers present their new films to the American public and discuss with the public their creative cinematic processes before and after screenings. Master…
Supporting and showcasing the arts
Advancement of music education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Visual Arts Center of Richmond and the most unlike its peers is Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 41 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds ART 180 Inc ↗
- Who funds 1708 Gallery Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER RICHMOND CHILDREN'S CHOIR ↗
- Who funds TAMWORTH MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds VICTORY HALL OPERA ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ORCHARD INC ↗
- Who funds Richmond Chamber Players Inc ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds Artspace ↗
- Who funds Belvedere Series ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND ALLIED VOICES INC ↗
- Who funds WINTERGREEN PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN CHAMBER MUSIC CO ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS ARTS AND CRAFTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Workhouse Arts Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY OF RICHMOND PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
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 Blank Allan and Margot Fdn 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.