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Blank Allan and Margot Fdn at a glance

· Private foundation

Blank Allan and Margot Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$225k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$70k
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 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.2MEducation$668kHuman Services$80kPublic Benefit$41kEnvironment$35kReligion$16k
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$7,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUN$70,000
MUSIC ORCHARD$18,000
GREATER RICHMOND CHILDRENS CHOIR$18,000
ARTSPACE$15,000
ART 180 INC$15,000
VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND$12,000
1708 GALLERY INC$12,000
TAMWORTH MUSIC FESTIVAL INC$10,000
BELVEDERE SERIES$8,000
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUND$7,000
FUSE ENSEMBLE ARTS COLLECTIVE$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
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ARTSPACE: $20k → 11%JEFFERSON BAROQUE ORCHESTRA: $10k → 13%ATLANTIC CHAMBER ENSEMBLE: $10k → 7%VICTORY HALL OPERA: $10k → 8%GREATER RICHMOND CHILDREN'S HOME: $25k → 9%OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUN: $85k → 19%RICHMOND SYMPHONY: $10k → 22%ARTSPACE: $20k → 11%JAMES RIVERS SINGERS: $10k → 7%VICTORY HALL OPERA: $10k → 8%GREATER RICHMOND CHILDREN'S HOME: $25k → 9%OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUN: $76k → 19%ARTSPACE: $10k → 11%JAMES RIVERS SINGERS: $10k → 7%GREATER RICHMOND CHILDREN'S HOME: $20k → 9%ARTSPACE: $10k → 11%JAMES RIVERS SINGERS: $10k → 7%ART 180 INC: $20k → 9%GREATER RICHMOND CHILDRENS CHOIR: $20k → 22%GREATER RICHMOND CHILDRENS CHOIR: $20k → 22%GREATER RICHMOND CHILDREN'S CHOIR: $20k → 22%GREATER RICHMOND CHILDRENS CHOIR: $18k → 22%GREATER RICHMOND CHILDRENS CHOIR: $18k → 22%CLASSICAL REVOLUTION RVA: $15k → 22%RICHMOND CHAMBER PLAYERS INC: $15k → 22%CLASSICAL REVOLUTION RVA: $15k → 22%CLASSICAL REVOLUTION RVA: $11k → 22%ARTSPACE: $15k → 22%ART 180 INC: $25k → 22%THE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND: $25k → 22%ART 180 INC: $25k → 22%THE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND: $20k → 22%1708 GALLERY INC: $20k → 22%1708 GALLERY INC: $20k → 22%THE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND: $20k → 22%THE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND: $20k → 22%THE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND: $20k → 22%THE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND: $20k → 22%THE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND: $20k → 22%ART 180 INC: $20k → 22%1708 GALLERY INC: $20k → 22%ART 180 INC: $20k → 22%ART 180 INC: $20k → 22%ART 180 INC: $15k → 22%VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND: $12k → 22%VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH: $18k → 22%VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH: $13k → 22%VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT: $11k → 22%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 28 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +40% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
10

Total granted

$1.9M
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+40%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • TV
    THE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $167k · revenue +165%
  • TM
    TAMWORTH MUSIC FESTIVAL
    7× · 2018–2025 · $85k · revenue +62%
  • LG
    LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • OD
    OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL
    one grant, 2024 · $70k
  • TM
    TAMWORTH MUSIC FESTIVAL
    one grant, 2017 · $22k
  • VC
    VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +40%
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
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Virginia Chamber Orchestra

The orchestra's mission is to perform fine music with highest artistic integrity for the broadest possible audience.

Arts & Culture
3
Richmond Choral Society

Promote the master musical choral

—
4
Richmond Symphony Orchestra

Shape the cultural life of our region by delivering exceptional, inclusive music experiences that enrich, entertain and educate.

Arts & Culture
5
Vanguard Concerts
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6
One Voice Chorus Inc

Choral music, racial reconciliation and education through singing the beauty and power of diversity.

Arts & Culture
7
Artslive
Arts & Culture
8
Virginia Chorale

To foster enjoyment and education about chorale art and perform choral music by the highest caliber of professional singers.

—
9
Maryland Lyric Opera
Arts & Culture
10
French Film Festival - Richmond Virginia

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Rhizome Dc

Supporting and showcasing the arts

Arts & Culture
12
Arlington Philharmonic

Advancement of music education

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Visual Arts Center of Richmond; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 41 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY: $337,000 · OtherOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITYOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUN: $230,600 · OtherOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUN1708 Gallery Inc: $142,000 · Other1708 Gallery IncGREATER RICHMOND CHILDREN'S HOME: $80,000 · OtherGREATER RICHMOND CHILDREN'S HOMECLASSICAL REVOLUTION RVA: $70,500 · OtherCLASSICAL REVOLUTION RVAARTSPACE: $70,000 · OtherARTSPACEOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL: $70,000 · OtherOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL+17 more: $301,400 · Other+17 moreART 180 Inc: $155,000 · Arts & CultureART 180 IncGREATER RICHMOND CHILDREN'S CHOIR: $96,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER RICHMOND CHILDREN'…TAMWORTH MUSIC FESTIVAL: $85,000 · Arts & CultureTAMWORTH MUSIC FESTIVALVICTORY HALL OPERA: $43,600 · Arts & CultureVICTORY HALL OPERATHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY: $28,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONYBelvedere Series: $24,000 · Arts & CultureRICHMOND ALLIED VOICES INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWINTERGREEN PERFORMING ARTS INC: $18,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $16,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND: $167,000 · EducationTHE VISUAL…VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT: $11,000 · EducationVIRGINIA C…+1 more: $4,500 · EducationMUSIC ORCHARD INC: $36,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentRICHMOND HILL INCORPORATED: $2,000 · Religion
Other$1,301,500Arts & Culture$486,100Education$182,500Youth Development$36,000Environment$35,000Religion$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND: $167,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetART 180 Inc: $155,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budget1708 Gallery Inc: $142,000 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND CHILDREN'S CHOIR: $96,000 over 5y, 36% of budgetTAMWORTH MUSIC FESTIVAL: $85,000 over 7y, 8.8% of budgetVICTORY HALL OPERA: $43,600 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetMUSIC ORCHARD INC: $36,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetLEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY: $28,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetArtspace: $25,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetBelvedere Series: $24,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetRICHMOND ALLIED VOICES INC: $20,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetWINTERGREEN PERFORMING ARTS INC: $18,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAPPALACHIAN CHAMBER MUSIC CO: $6,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS ARTS AND CRAFTS CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetWorkhouse Arts Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCITY OF RICHMOND PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 1y, 2.0% 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 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 LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Richmond Chamber Players 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 ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Robins FoundationRichard S Reynolds Fo…Dominion Energy Chari…CultureWorks IncWindsor Fdn Trust Uw …Wilbur Moreland Haven…Tesco FoundationRobert G Cabell III a…Virginia Nonprofit Ho…Herndon FoundationRichmond Memorial Hea…
The Community Foundation IncVA28.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Blank Allan and Margot Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blank Allan and Margot Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 41 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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