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Blechman-David Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$151k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
65%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$70,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$2.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 65% of the organizations Blechman-David Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthCrime & LegalArts & CultureEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$151k25%
FY202317$216k65%
FY20224$84k25%
FY20214$18k50%
FY20204$13k0%
FY201918$31k72%
FY20187$184k100%
FY20171$5kn/a
79% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$214kEducation$170kPhilanthropy$35kArts & Culture$25kCrime & Legal$6kHealth$6kEmployment$5kHuman Services$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
IA
PA
CA
VA
MD
DC
LA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Philanthropic Venture Fund$35,000157%
An Achievable Dream Inc$35,00031%
Fear 2 Freedom Inc$6,00021%
The Mariners' Museum$5,25020%
Hampton Roads Academy$5,00010%
American Cancer Society Inc$5,00010%
Lavinia Engle Sholarship Fund Inc$5,0004n/a
Oracle City$1,0001n/a
Olivet Medical Ministry Inc$25010%
Peninsula Society for the Preven- Tion of Cruelty to Animals Inc$10010%
Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of Blechman-David Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Philanthropic Venture Fund$35,000157%
An Achievable Dream Inc$35,00031%
Fear 2 Freedom Inc$6,00021%
The Mariners' Museum$5,25020%
Hampton Roads Academy$5,00010%
American Cancer Society Inc$5,00010%
Lavinia Engle Sholarship Fund Inc$5,0004n/a
Oracle City$1,0001n/a
Olivet Medical Ministry Inc$25010%
Peninsula Society for the Preven- Tion of Cruelty to Animals Inc$10010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$10010%
Sierra Club$10010%
Hunter Syndrome Foundation$1001n/a
National Alliance to End Homelessness$10010%
Critical Role Foundation$10010%
NAMI National$10010%
International Rescue Committee INC$10010%
The Against Malaria Foundation$10010%
Easter Seals Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($602k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Blechman-David Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPhilanthropic Venture Fund: $35,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetAn Achievable Dream Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFear 2 Freedom Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Mariners' Museum: $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHampton Roads Academy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOlivet Medical Ministry Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeninsula Society for the Preven- Tion of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Alliance to End Homelessness: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCritical Role Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Against Malaria Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Jp Yancey FoundationVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jp Yancey Foundation · Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia Inc · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Blechman-David Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Blechman-David Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Blechman-David Foundation

How much does Blechman-David Foundation give?
Blechman-David Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $151,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Blechman-David Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (31%), Education (24%), Philanthropy (5%).
Who are Blechman-David Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Philanthropic Venture Fund ($35k), An Achievable Dream Inc ($35k), Fear 2 Freedom Inc ($6k).
Does Blechman-David Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Blechman-David Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Blechman-David Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jp Yancey Foundation, Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia Inc, Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu.
Where is Blechman-David Foundation based?
Blechman-David Foundation is based in VA.

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 37 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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