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Blitzer 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.

$5.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 27
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$5.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Blitzer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 65% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Recreation & SportsEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyEmploymentOther
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 arriving25$4.9M52%
FY20237$1.8M43%
FY20226$635k50%
FY20218$649k100%
FY202027$1.6Mn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.8MRecreation & Sports$1.3MPhilanthropy$1.2MArts & Culture$1.1MInternational$814kYouth Development$685kReligion$522kCivil Rights$510kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Blitzer Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of United Hatzalah Inc: $1,042,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $900,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDream Charter School: $540,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFoundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRiverdale Country School Inc: $450,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPhiladelphia Youth Basketball Inc: $400,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budget4G44 ESports Inc Lost Tribe: $350,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHarlem Rbi Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMorry's Camp Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetReut USA: $200,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetUnited States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Israel Education Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMetropolitan Oval Foundation Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetUncommon Schools Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreenlight Fund Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetChallenged Athletes Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMaccabi USA Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetRoom to Read: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Earl Monroe New Renaissance Basketball Charter School Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNew Alternatives for Children Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Nations Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZoological Society of Philadelphia: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Urban League Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCleveland Guardians Charities Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetProject Lyme: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMuseum of the City of New York: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEarthjustice: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Shalva Israel Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMdrc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEast Harlem Tutorial Program Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 33.

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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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Lori & Michael Nash Foundation · Fjc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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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Find your warmest path to Blitzer Family 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 Blitzer Family Foundation

How much does Blitzer Family Foundation give?
Blitzer Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $5,165,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Blitzer Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (20%), Recreation & Sports (9%), Philanthropy (8%).
Who are Blitzer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Friends of United Hatzalah Inc ($1.0M), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($900k), Dream Charter School ($540k).
Does Blitzer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Blitzer 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 Blitzer Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Blitzer Family Foundation based?
Blitzer Family Foundation is based in CT.

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 56 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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