· Private foundation
Blatt Family Foundation Sydelle Blatt
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 $10k11 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CULTURE FOR ONE | $25,000 |
| WMHT | $1,000 |
| BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER | $500 |
| HEBREW DAY SCHOOL OF SULLIVAN AND U | $500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES | $500 |
| VARIOUS OTHER CHARITIES | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
| CONSTRUCT | $200 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $100 |
| THE MOUNT EDITH WHARTON CULTURAL CT | $100 |
| CAPITAL CITY RESCUE MISSION | $100 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $100 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 39% of Blatt Family Foundation Sydelle Blatt’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
42 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 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
- BSBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC6× · 2018–2024 · $463k · revenue +22%
- MFMOVE(NYC) FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +155%
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC2× · 2019–2021 · $40k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- NONUMEROUS OTHER CHARITES-DETAILS ON FILEone grant, 2020 · $29k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $15k
- PPSCone grant, 2022 · $10k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of the Berkshires and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 77 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 BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MOVE(NYC) FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURE FOR ONE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES ↗
- Who funds WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GINA GIBNEY DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Hancock Shaker Village Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds CITY LAX INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
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: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Gilson Family Foundation Inc · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Claudia K Perles Family Foundation Inc
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 Blatt Family Foundation Sydelle Blatt 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Elizabeth Freeman Center Inc — 76% of income from government
- Tapestry Health Systems Inc — 60% of income from government
- 18 Degrees Inc — 60% of income from government
- Berkshire Immigrant Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Construct Inc — 4% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Hancock Shaker Village Inc — 1% of income from government
- Becket Athenaeum Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
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.