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Blauvelt Demarest Bellis Foundation Inc

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.

$98k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Education$135kArts & Culture$44kReligion$31kHealth$20kHuman Services$18kInternational$17kRecreation & Sports$7kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $46k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRINITY PAWLING SCHOOL$52,975
FROM HOUSES TO HOMES$6,814
ST LUKES CHURCH$6,000
MUSIC IN THE SOMERSET HILLS$5,000
MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM$2,603
ST MATTHEW THE APOSTLE$2,500
CORNER STONE FAMILY$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NJ$2,000
CHABAD CENTER$1,750
ESSEX HORSE TRIALS$1,000
KIWIMBI$1,000
LAKE FOREST COLLEGE$1,000
MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LIFE CAMP: $5k → 4%CORNERSTONE FAMILY: $3k → 4%LIFE CAMP: $3k → 4%CORNERSTONE FAMILY: $2k → 4%PLAID HOUSE: $500 → 4%PLAID HOUSE: $500 → 4%LIFE CAMP: $500 → 4%PLAID HOUSE: $500 → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$246k · 22 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against -47% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
4

Total granted

$246k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
-47%

Still filing today

59%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther

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

  • TS
    TRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $122k · revenue +20%
  • MI
    MUSIC IN THE SOMERSET HILLS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +62%
  • NY
    NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • CV
    CREATIVE VISIONS
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • E
    ESCALA
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • FH
    FAR HILLS BEDMINSTER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $500

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education
2
Hillbrook School

Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…

Education
3
Hampshire Country School

Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…

4
Millbrook School

In a community where every student is known and needed, millbrook prepares its students for college and lives of meaning and consequence by instilling the values of respect, integrity, service, stewardship, and curiosity.

Education
5
Historical Society of Princeton

Historical society of princeton develops signature programs of learning and discovery to connect the lessons of the past to the issues which inform our future.

Arts & Culture
6
Corporation of St Timothy's School

Founded in 1832, st. timothy's school is a college preparatory boarding and day school, preparing girls to assume positions of leadership with moral focus and courage, intellectual honesty and acumen, and the confidence to act responsibly…

Education
7
The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc

Rippowam Cisqua School creates independent thinkers, confident communicators, and engaged leaders who respect and contribute meaningfully to a diverse and increasingly complex global society.

Education
8
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

9
Linden Hall School for Girls

Committed to excellence in the education of young women in a diverse community, linden hall provides a rigorous and multifaceted college-prepatory experience where each student is nurtured and inspired to reach her highest potential.

Education
10
Montclair Film Festival Inc

Montclair film connects global filmmakers with audiences in a diverse, culturally vibrant community by presenting films and year-round programs that engage, entertain, and educate through the power of visual storytelling.

Arts & Culture
11
Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School

We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.

12
Saddle River Day School Inc

To inspire each child to achieve personal and academic excellence and to become a caring and ethical contributor to society.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone Family Programs and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Clarence Dillon Public Library. 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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATION — $122,100 · EducationTRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATIONLake Forest College — $8,000 · EducationLake Forest College+2 more — $4,000 · EducationCREATIVE VISIONS — $25,000 · OtherCREATIVE VISIONSFROM HOUSES TO HOMES - GUATEMALA INC — $16,814 · OtherFROM HOUSES TO HOMES - GUATEMALA INCCHABAD OF RANDOLPH INC — $15,517 · OtherCHABAD OF RANDOLPH INCFOUNDATION FOR MORRISTIOWN MEDICAL — $10,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR MORRISTIOWN MEDICALST MATTHEW THE APOSTLE — $7,500 · OtherST MATTHEW THE APOSTLEST LUKES CHURCH — $6,190 · OtherST LUKES CHURCHMORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER — $5,000 · OtherCME — $5,000 · Other+17 more — $19,392 · Other+17 moreMUSIC IN THE SOMERSET HILLS INC — $10,450 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC — $8,603 · Arts & CultureLIFE CAMP INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS — $4,000 · Human ServicesPLAID HOUSE INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesESSEX HORSE TRIALS INC — $6,000 · Recreation & SportsFALMOUTH ROAD RACE INC — $273 · Recreation & SportsNOURISHNJ INC — $2,130 · Food & NutritionRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION — $2,000 · Environment
Education$134,100Other$110,413Arts & Culture$19,053Human Services$13,000Recreation & Sports$6,273Food & Nutrition$2,130Environment$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATION — $122,100 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFROM HOUSES TO HOMES - GUATEMALA INC — $16,814 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMUSIC IN THE SOMERSET HILLS INC — $10,450 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetNEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC — $8,603 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLake Forest College — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE CAMP INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetESSEX HORSE TRIALS INC — $6,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNOURISHNJ INC — $2,130 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLAID HOUSE INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CLARENCE DILLON PUBLIC LIBRARY — $1,130 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFALMOUTH ROAD RACE INC — $273 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAR HILLS-BEDMINSTER FIRST AID SQUADINC — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 TRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATION
  • Who funds FROM HOUSES TO HOMES - GUATEMALA INC
  • Who funds MUSIC IN THE SOMERSET HILLS INC
  • Who funds NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC
  • Who funds Lake Forest College
  • Who funds LIFE CAMP INC
  • Who funds ESSEX HORSE TRIALS INC
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS
  • Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds NOURISHNJ INC
  • Who funds RARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds PLAID HOUSE INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CLARENCE DILLON PUBLIC LIBRARY
  • Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL
  • Who funds FALMOUTH ROAD RACE INC
  • Who funds NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC
  • Who funds FAR HILLS-BEDMINSTER FIRST AID SQUADINC

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.

Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Risor Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Louis G Piancone Charitable Foundation Inc · The Fournier Family Foundation · The Kean Foundation Inc · Reed Family Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Blauvelt Demarest Bellis Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • Raritan Headwaters Association94% of income from government
  • Nourishnj Inc27% of income from government
  • Plaid House Inc9% of income from government
  • Life Camp Inc4% of income from government
  • Cornerstone Family Programs3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Blauvelt Demarest Bellis Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Blauvelt Demarest Bellis Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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