Illinois · Private foundation
Blazer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $702,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Blazer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $258k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $1.4M | 35% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $922k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $912k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $558k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $355k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $1.3M | 28% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $754k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $861k | 17% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockford Park District Foundation | $319,900 | 6 | 8% |
| Regional Access & Mobilization Project Inc | $312,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Milestone Inc | $300,128 | 8 | 0% |
| Gigis Playhouse Inc | $269,899 | 7 | n/a |
| Hoosier Care Inc | $195,972 | 7 | 0% |
| Lifescape Community Services Inc | $146,600 | 3 | 1% |
| Goldie B Floberg Center | $130,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Barbara Olson Center of Hope | $130,000 | 4 | 2% |
| University of the Cumberlands Inc | $115,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Discovery Center Museum of Rockford Inc | $98,210 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Blazer Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 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: Community Foundation of Northern IL · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · United Way of Rock River Valley · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Sjostrom & Sons Foundation · Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation · The Ben Harding Family Foundation · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · Smith Charitable Foundation Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
How this is measured
About Blazer Foundation
- How much does Blazer Foundation give?
- Blazer Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $1,422,133 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Blazer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Recreation & Sports (23%), Health (12%).
- Who are Blazer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rockford Park District Foundation ($320k), Regional Access & Mobilization Project Inc ($312k), Milestone Inc ($300k).
- Does Blazer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Blazer 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 Blazer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Northern IL, The Kjellstrom Family Foundation, Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008.
- Where is Blazer Foundation based?
- Blazer Foundation is based in IL.
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