New York · Private foundation
Blavatnik Family Foundation
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.
- $44M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 108
- Grants FY2024
- 120
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $11,853,633
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 144
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $58M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 39% of the organizations Blavatnik Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 100 | $25M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 120 | $43M | 39% |
| FY2022 | 85 | $27M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $22M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 118 | $45M | 27% |
| FY2019 | 144 | $56M | 44% |
| FY2018 | 133 | $45M | 90% |
| FY2017 | 37 | $17M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York Academy of Sciences | $36,953,052 | 7 | 52% |
| The Mount Sinai Medical Center | $16,410,000 | 8 | 83% |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $12,150,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Yale University | $9,400,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Colel Chabad | $8,696,150 | 6 | n/a |
| Yale University | $8,000,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Tate Americas Foundation | $7,333,791 | 2 | 31% |
| The Better Angels Society Inc | $6,000,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Yale University | $5,200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Prostate Cancer Foundation | $5,000,000 | 4 | 6% |
Show all 237 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 138 recipients with no EIN on record ($102M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Blavatnik Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 19 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 199 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Tr Ua 06162003 · Blavatnik Family Foundation 2020 · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Koum Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Russell Berrie Foundation · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Schneur Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Blavatnik Family Foundation
- How much does Blavatnik Family Foundation give?
- Blavatnik Family Foundation reported 108 grants totaling $43,716,168 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 144 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Blavatnik Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (47%), Education (15%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Blavatnik Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: New York Academy of Sciences ($37M), The Mount Sinai Medical Center ($16M), Council on Foreign Relations Inc ($12M).
- Does Blavatnik Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Blavatnik Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Blavatnik Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tr Ua 06162003, Blavatnik Family Foundation 2020, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Blavatnik Family Foundation based?
- Blavatnik Family Foundation is based in NY.
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