Florida · Private foundation
Blanton Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $175k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 25
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Blanton Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 25 | $185k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $153k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $159k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $182k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $179k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida Southern College | $209,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Imperial Symphony Orchestra Inc | $70,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Florida State University | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Volunteers in Service to the Elderly Inc | $28,000 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Florida | $26,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Southeastern University Inc | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education | $21,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lakeland Community Theatre Inc | $17,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Achievement Academy Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Berklee College of Music Inc | $14,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida Southern College | $209,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Imperial Symphony Orchestra Inc | $70,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Florida State University | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Volunteers in Service to the Elderly Inc | $28,000 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Florida | $26,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Southeastern University Inc | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education | $21,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lakeland Community Theatre Inc | $17,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Achievement Academy Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Berklee College of Music Inc | $14,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Platform Art Inc | $12,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Drake University | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Baldwin Wallace University | $9,807 | 3 | 0% |
| Music Associates of Aspen Inc | $8,120 | 1 | 0% |
| Loyola University | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Miami | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cleveland Institute of Music | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Warner University | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Oberlin College | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ithaca College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Florida Children's Museum Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lakeland Volunteers in Medicine Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Polk County Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($301k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Blanton Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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: Glenn W & Hazelle Paxson Morrison Foundation Inc · Givewell Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Florida Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · George Jenkins Foundation Inc · Lola Mann Memorial Fund · Lakeland Area Chamber Foundation · Cps Cares Inc · Agamerica Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Blanton Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does Blanton Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- Blanton Charitable Foundation Inc reported 25 grants totaling $174,527 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 25 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Blanton Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (58%), Arts & Culture (25%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Blanton Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Florida Southern College ($209k), The Imperial Symphony Orchestra Inc ($70k), Florida State University ($30k).
- Does Blanton Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Blanton Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Blanton Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Glenn W & Hazelle Paxson Morrison Foundation Inc, Givewell Community Foundation Inc, United Way of Central Florida Inc.
- Where is Blanton Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- Blanton Charitable Foundation Inc is based in FL.
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