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Blavatnik Family Foundation 2020 at a glance

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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.

$63M
Granted FY2022
50
Grants FY2022
8
States reached
$49M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

77
’21
32
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2022.

Science & Tech$102MPhilanthropy$50MArts & Culture$6.4MReligion$5.2MHealth$3.1MCivil Rights$3.0MEducation$2.3MInternational$2.2MOther$0
02FY2022 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k5 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $431k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+11 grants · $61M
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Children's Learning Centers of Fair: $50k → 9%PROJECT LEAD INC: $10k → 13%PROJECT LEAD INC: $5k → 13%World Childhood Foundation: $25k → 17%THE BLUE CARD INC: $15k → 17%THE BLUE CARD INC: $15k → 17%The Innocence Project Inc: $50k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $15k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 19 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
95

Total granted

$19M
$9.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+13%

Still filing today

68%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    2× · 2021–2022 · $9.3M · revenue +13%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $700k · revenue +9%
  • IS
    INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING HALL OF FAME
    2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.1M · revenue +47%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -24%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $875k · revenue +52%
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
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
2
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
3
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
4
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
5
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
7
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
8
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
10
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Forward Association Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

89 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. 89 of the 149 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/89
Grantees still filing
59/89
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College: $92,707,225 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College+7 more: $1,190,000 · EducationNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $48,981,285 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST+9 more: $1,210,793 · PhilanthropyNEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $9,273,498 · OtherNEW YORK ACADE…COLEL CHABAD: $3,051,875 · OtherCOLEL CHABADWMG BFF Social Justice Fund: $2,833,660 · OtherWMG BFF Social…AMERICAN FDN OF THE IMPERIAL WAR MU: $1,404,610 · OtherAMERICAN FDN O…+85 more: $5,927,681 · Other+85 moreTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $875,000 · Arts & CultureALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $850,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $470,000 · Arts & CultureJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $166,666 · Arts & CultureSTRAVINSKY INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $585,000 · Arts & CultureBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,059,636 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $700,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $384,698 · Health+3 more: $85,000 · HealthBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC: $529,430 · InternationalAPPEAL OF CONSCIENCE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $100,000 · International+8 more: $264,786 · InternationalMACCABI WORLD UNION INC: $330,000 · Youth DevelopmentWILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE LEE A ARCHER JR RED TAIL YOUTH: $15,000 · Youth Development
Education$93,897,225Philanthropy$50,192,078Other$22,491,324Arts & Culture$4,706,666Health$2,229,334International$1,994,216Youth Development$365,000

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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $92,707,225 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $48,981,285 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $9,273,498 over 2y, 23% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,059,636 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $875,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $850,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $800,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $700,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $529,430 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $470,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $384,698 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACCABI WORLD UNION INC: $330,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $177,293 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $166,666 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS: $160,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTRAVINSKY INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $110,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAPPEAL OF CONSCIENCE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetUSA Swimming Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation: $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOUNDWATERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAREMESSAGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAVE VENICE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SWIMMING HALL OF FAME: $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL FOR WORLD JEWRY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetCHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAURORA HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTSCONNECTION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE CALIFORNIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC): $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $35,000 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.

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.

Blavatnik Family Foun…Tr Ua 06162003Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Schneur Family Founda…National Philanthropi…Jewish Community Foun…The Arnold S & Madale…Wolfensohn Family Fou…The Koum Family Found…The David Hochberg Fo…
Blavatnik Family FoundationNY61.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Blavatnik Family Foundation 2020 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blavatnik Family Foundation 2020. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 149 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home