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Bll 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| TEMPLE EMANU EL | $3,150 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $3,000 |
| GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC | $2,750 |
| LINCOLN CTR THEATER | $2,546 |
| GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER | $2,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| CITIZENS COMM CHILDREN NY | $2,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| FRESH AIR FUND | $1,250 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $1,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU EL | $1,000 |
| 122 E 66TH ST FDN | $1,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +35%
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +167%
- GLGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- MTMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +43%
- CHCHAPEL HAVEN CENTERone grant, 2024 · $2k
- RURICHMOND UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
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.…
The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 94 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAPLEBROOK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds HARTLEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bll Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bll Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc: 13% of income from government
- Simmons University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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