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Blau Family Foundation at a glance

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Blau Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$815kEducation$301kPhilanthropy$120kRecreation & Sports$100kReligion$30kFood & Nutrition$25kYouth Development$24kEnvironment$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIPP NYC$5,000
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION: $15k → 7%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $28k → 17%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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$974k · 8 repeat orgs$481k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +58% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
17

Total granted

$974k
$476k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+58%

Still filing today

75%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    2× · 2017–2018 · $633k · revenue +202% · 47% of their budget
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +76%
  • TN
    The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations
    2× · 2017–2018 · $66k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $110k · revenue +49%
  • SF
    SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $98k · revenue +305%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $70k · revenue +51%
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
New York University

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.

Education
2
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
9
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kipp Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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

19 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. 19 of the 26 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
18/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Michigan: $633,333 · OtherUniversity of MichiganSLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $82,129 · OtherSLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERTRINITY SCHOOL: $56,500 · OtherTRINITY SCHOOL+10 more: $56,569 · Other+10 moreSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $98,000 · EducationSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $66,040 · EducationThe New York Public Libr…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $47,250 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE…EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK: $25,000 · EducationEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YO…+1 more: $10,000 · EducationROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $110,000 · PhilanthropyCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $28,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · ReligionGIRLS INC: $24,460 · Youth Development
Other$828,531Education$316,290Philanthropy$110,000Recreation & Sports$100,000Human Services$45,500Religion$30,000Youth Development$24,460

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Michigan: $633,333 over 2y, 47% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $98,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $66,040 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $47,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $28,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGIRLS INC: $24,460 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetKIPP FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $9,819 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians For Reproductive Health: $5,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Blau Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blau Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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