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Blessed 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.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Religion$37kHealth$3kEducation$2kRecreation & Sports$25Other$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$600
Median grant
5
States reached
$62k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Church of St Patrick$5,245
Sisters of the Most Holy Trinity$1,050
Congregation of the Incarnate Word$1,050
Hillsdale College$1,000
Sarasota Medical Pregnancy Ctr$1,000
Congregation of St Ursuline$600
Monastery of the Poor Clares$500
Congregation of St Joseph$500
Magnificat Foundation INC$159
Cathedral of St John the Evangelist$50
Epiphany Cathedral$50
Association of the Miraculous Medal$25
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ST MARIA GORETTI CATHOLIC CHURCH: $100 → 11%DIVINE MERCY INSTITUTE: $522 → 12%Magnificat Foundation INC: $159 → 9%KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS: $50 → 9%OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $375 → 10%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1k → 14%Association of the Miraculous Medal: $25 → 12%CHURCH OF ST CECELIA: $120 → 8%MINISTRY OF FATHER GALLAGHER OVM ST JOHN VIANNEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $100 → 12%CONGREGATION OF THE INCARNATE WORD CLEVELAND OH: $1k → 17%ST AMBROSE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $500 → 6%Sarasota Medical Pregnancy Ctr: $1k → 9%Hillsdale College: $1k → 14%CONGREGATION OF THE INCARNATE WORD CLEVELAND OH: $1k → 17%SARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER: $1k → 9%Congregation of the Incarnate Word: $1k → 17%SARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER: $1k → 9%CONGREGATION OF THE INCARNATE WORD: $500 → 17%ST MARY STAR OF THE SEA CATHOLIC CHURCH: $30 → 9%Sisters of the Most Holy Trinity: $1k → 17%CHURCH OF ST PATRICK SARASOTA: $5k → 9%SISTERS OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY: $1k → 17%Church of St Patrick: $5k → 9%SISTERS OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY: $500 → 17%CHURCH OF ST PATRICK: $3k → 9%SISTERS OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY: $500 → 17%CHURCH OF ST PATRICK SARASOTA: $3k → 9%JENNINGS: $1k → 17%CATHOLIC FAITH APPEAL DIOCESE OF VENICE FL: $100 → 9%JENNINGS: $500 → 17%Epiphany Cathedral: $50 → 9%Cathedral of St John the Evangelist: $50 → 17%MONASTERY OF THE POOR CLARES: $1k → 17%SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH: $1k → 17%SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH: $1k → 17%CONGREGATION OF ST URSULINE: $2k → 17%MONASTERY OF THE POOR CLARES: $1k → 17%CONGREGATION OF ST URSULINE: $1k → 17%MONASTERY OF THE POOR CLARES: $1k → 17%CONGREGATION OF ST URSULINE: $1k → 17%Congregation of St Joseph: $500 → 17%Congregation of St Ursuline: $600 → 17%Monastery of the Poor Clares: $500 → 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

MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
CO
MO
VA
AZ
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40k · 11 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$40k
$2k

Still filing today

9%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $784 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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
    Church of St Patrick
    2× · 2022–2025 · $9k
  • CO
    CHURCH OF ST PATRICK SARASOTA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $8k
  • CO
    CONGREGATION OF ST URSULINE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $4k

Funded once

  • DM
    DIVINE MERCY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2024 · $522
  • SA
    St Ambrose Catholic School
    one grant, 2023 · $500
  • OL
    OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $375
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
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
3/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Church of St Patrick: $8,614 · OtherChurch of St PatrickCHURCH OF ST PATRICK SARASOTA: $8,395 · OtherCHURCH OF ST PATRICK SARASOTACONGREGATION OF ST URSULINE: $4,450 · OtherCONGREGATION OF ST URSULINEMONASTERY OF THE POOR CLARES: $3,500 · OtherMONASTERY OF THE POOR CLARESOUR LADY OF LOURDES SHRINE: $3,050 · OtherOUR LADY OF LOURDES SHRINECONGREGATION OF THE INCARNATE WORD CLEVELAND OH: $2,150 · OtherCONGREGATION OF THE INCARNATE WORD CLEVELAND OHTHE SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH: $2,000 · OtherJENNINGS: $1,800 · OtherCongregation of the Incarnate Word: $1,550 · Other+14 more: $3,681 · Other+14 moreSARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $3,000 · HealthHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2,000 · Education
Other$39,190Health$3,000Education$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2,000 over 2y, 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 SARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MAGNIFICAT 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.

American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH9.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Blessed Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Blessed 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.

    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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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