Maryland · Private foundation
Blanket Fort Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 78
- Grants FY2024
- 66
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 66
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $23M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 45% of the organizations Blanket Fort Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $365k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 77 | $2.0M | 36% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $1.4M | 45% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $1.4M | 51% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $2k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $477k | 59% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $891k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $1.1M | 62% |
| FY2017 | 32 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Park School of Baltimore Inc | $630,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Kipp Baltimore Inc | $570,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Teach for America Inc | $538,573 | 7 | 0% |
| Fund for Educational Excellence Inc | $419,444 | 6 | 1% |
| Thread Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Kennedy Krieger Foundation Inc | $233,583 | 1 | 3% |
| Kennedy Krieger Institute Inc | $233,513 | 1 | n/a |
| Homeworthy | $195,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Baltimores Promise Inc | $155,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Improving Education Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 3% |
Show all 145 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Blanket Fort Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 126 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Sherman Family Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc
How this is measured
About Blanket Fort Foundation
- How much does Blanket Fort Foundation give?
- Blanket Fort Foundation reported 78 grants totaling $2,085,640 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 66 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Blanket Fort Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Health (9%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are Blanket Fort Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Park School of Baltimore Inc ($630k), Kipp Baltimore Inc ($570k), Teach for America Inc ($539k).
- Does Blanket Fort Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Blanket Fort Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Blanket Fort Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc, The Abell Foundation Inc, Baltimore Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Blanket Fort Foundation based?
- Blanket Fort Foundation is based in MD.
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