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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 FY2024still arriving
108
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$12M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Science & Tech$261MEducation$83MArts & Culture$64MHealth$43MHuman Services$31MReligion$31MInternational$25MPhilanthropy$5.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 108 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $888k
  • $50k–250k33 grants · $3.4M
  • $250k+23 grants · $39M
$50,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$58M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Moore Impact Inc$11,853,633
AMERICAN FRIENDS TEL AVIV UNIVERSIT$5,225,200
THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCE$4,557,785
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$2,400,000
AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC$2,096,340
Brown University$2,000,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$1,340,000
Brandeis University$1,250,000
COLEL CHABAD$1,100,000
NYU Medical Center$1,100,000
Mount Sinai Medical Center$1,000,000
BLAVATNIK ARCHIVE FOUNDATION$807,000
American Friends of Hebrew Universi$631,157
Boston Childrens Hospital$615,302
Center for Jewish History$500,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $31.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%La Familia Counseling Center: $40k → 12%Life In Motion International Inc: $65k → 6%Moore Impact Inc: $11.9M → 12%Center For Hope and Safety: $50k → 7%Toms River Field of Dreams: $50k → 11%United Help Ukraine: $130 → 8%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%TORY BURCH FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%Moore Impact Inc: $10.0M → 12%Center For Hope and Safety: $50k → 7%TORY BURCH FOUNDATION: $75k → 17%MOORE IMPACT INC: $4.2M → 12%Center For Hope and Safety: $50k → 7%CashForRefugees Inc: $50k → 16%Moore Impact Inc: $4.1M → 12%Center For Hope and Safety: $30k → 7%PROJECT LEAD INC: $30k → 13%Center For Hope and Safety: $30k → 7%PROJECT LEAD INC: $20k → 13%CASH FOR REFUGEES INC: $25k → 16%PROJECT LEAD INC: $15k → 13%PROJECT LEAD INC: $10k → 13%THE LEEBA GAVRIELLA FUND FOR THE NE: $8k → 14%TORY BURCH FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%LOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH: $100k → 14%Edward Charles Foundation: $8k → 14%THE BLUE CARD INC: $40k → 17%THE BLUE CARD INC: $40k → 17%THE BLUE CARD INC: $40k → 17%BELEV ECHAD INC: $4k → 17%The Innocence Project Inc: $50k → 17%The Innocence Project Inc: $50k → 17%The Innocence Project Inc: $50k → 17%The Innocence Project Inc: $50k → 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
NH
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 52% of Blavatnik Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 34% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 32%.

Blavatnik Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$258M · 174 repeat orgs$23M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

174 repeat relationships: 73 still active in FY2024, 101 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

174
174

Total granted

$258M
$20M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+10%

Still filing today

52%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHealthHuman 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

  • CO
    COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $12M · revenue +5%
  • THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +3%
  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2022 · $5.0M · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $5.2M
  • TC
    The Carnegie Hall Society Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $2.5M
  • DS
    DALTON SCHOOLS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2.0M · revenue +16%
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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2
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
3
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
4
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
5
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc

Yivo's mission is to study the thousand-year history of jewish life in eastern europe and russia in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways and material culture. yivo's archive and library preserves a significant collection…

Religion
6
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
7
Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fundinc

Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art

Arts & Culture
8
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
11
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Myriad Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blavatnik Archive Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

221 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 221 of the 388 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
214/221
Grantees still filing
138/221
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College: $223,458,334 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College+18 more: $20,033,186 · Education+18 moreNEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $36,953,052 · OtherNEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCESAMERICAN FRIENDS TEL AVIV UNIVERSIT: $27,425,200 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS TEL AVIV UNIVERSITThe Courtauld Institute of Art: $10,205,200 · OtherSTANFORD UNIV MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY: $9,400,000 · OtherCOLEL CHABAD: $8,696,150 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY: $8,000,000 · Other+108 more: $81,065,067 · Other+108 moreMOORE IMPACT INC: $30,246,058 · Human Services+8 more: $1,045,118 · Human ServicesTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $7,333,791 · Arts & CultureTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC: $6,000,000 · Arts & CultureBLAVATNIK ARCHIVE FOUNDATION: $3,871,838 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $2,825,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $1,846,000 · Arts & CultureALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $1,450,000 · Arts & CultureSTRAVINSKY INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $1,355,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $1,300,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $2,888,377 · Arts & CultureCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $12,150,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $4,000,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE BRITISH COUNCIL USA: $1,112,121 · International+14 more: $3,614,060 · InternationalTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $16,410,000 · HealthNorwalk Hospital Foundation: $1,000,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $755,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $665,364 · Health+8 more: $1,075,118 · HealthPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $1,784,278 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,718,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICA GIVES INC: $884,500 · Philanthropy+6 more: $1,067,820 · Philanthropy
Education$243,491,520Other$191,744,669Human Services$31,291,176Arts & Culture$28,870,006International$20,876,181Health$19,905,482Philanthropy$10,454,598

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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: $223,458,334 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetNEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $36,953,052 over 7y, 52% of budgetMOORE IMPACT INC: $30,246,058 over 4y, 72% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $16,410,000 over 8y, 83% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $12,150,000 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $7,333,791 over 2y, 31% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $7,185,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC: $6,000,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $4,000,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetBLAVATNIK ARCHIVE FOUNDATION: $3,871,838 over 7y, 100% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $3,415,963 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $2,825,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $1,846,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $1,784,278 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,718,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $1,465,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $1,450,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSTRAVINSKY INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $1,355,000 over 7y, 100% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $1,300,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTONY BLAIR AFRICA GOVERNANCE INITIATIVE -US D/B/A TONY BLAIR FOUNDATION: $1,250,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BRITISH COUNCIL USA: $1,112,121 over 3y, 61% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $1,100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNLI USA INC: $1,100,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetNorwalk Hospital Foundation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $884,500 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetMACCABI WORLD UNION INC: $820,000 over 4y, 50% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $755,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $699,996 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $676,548 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $665,364 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $631,157 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $600,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNAMES NOT NUMBERS INC: $583,333 over 5y, 19% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC: $551,500 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $500,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYAD YISROEL: $473,400 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $358,546 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BROADWAY DANCE LAB INC: $336,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetSADLER'S WELLS ASSOCIATION INC: $330,213 over 1y, 50% of budgetAmerican School in London Foundation: $325,583 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS: $300,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $266,668 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $265,000 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.

  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds MOORE IMPACT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BLAVATNIK ARCHIVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds The Carnegie Hall Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds DALTON SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Tr Ua 06162003NY67.8× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Center for Hope and Safety Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Aha Foundation Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Soundwaters Inc: 4% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New World Symphony Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Stamford Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Yehudi Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
34report 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, 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 388 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.

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