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Blavatnik Family Foundation 2020
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
79% of Blavatnik Family Foundation 2020’s FY2022 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 32 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $431k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+11 grants · $61M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| National Philantropic Trust | $48,981,285 |
| THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCE | $5,200,917 |
| WMG BFF Social Justice Fund | $1,408,000 |
| AMERICAN FDN OF THE IMPERIAL WAR MU | $1,404,610 |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $1,000,000 |
| COLEL CHABAD | $636,250 |
| ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION Inc | $550,000 |
| AMERICAN BALLET THEATER | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $500,000 |
| MACCABI WORLD UNION INC | $330,000 |
| AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC | $300,000 |
| AMERICAN SCHOOL OF LONDON FOUNDATIO | $200,000 |
| National Academy of Sciences | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $195,853 |
| AMERICA GIVES INC | $150,000 |
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 (FY21–22, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% 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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M 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
- NYNEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES2× · 2021–2022 · $9.3M · revenue +13%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC2× · 2021–2022 · $700k · revenue +9%
- ISINTERNATIONAL SWIMMING HALL OF FAME2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.1M · revenue +34%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INCone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -24%
- NYNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $875k · revenue +52%
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.
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Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Forward Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Roundabout Theatre Company Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 11% 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.
89 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. 89 of the 149 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 President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds MACCABI WORLD UNION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds STRAVINSKY INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds USA Swimming Foundation Inc ↗
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: Blavatnik Family Foundation · Tr Ua 06162003 · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Schneur Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Arnold S & Madaleine Penner Family F · Wolfensohn Family Foundation · The Koum Family Foundation · The David Hochberg Foundation
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 Blavatnik Family Foundation 2020 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Aha Foundation Inc — 42% of income from government
- Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County Inc — 36% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Yehudi Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Aleph Institute 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.