Maryland · Private foundation
Block & Popick 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.
- $23k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 16
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $203k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Block & Popick Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 24 | $23k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $13k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $12k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $14k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $8k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $7k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adas Israel Hebrew Congregation | $9,816 | 6 | n/a |
| Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc | $8,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Main Street Connect Inc | $6,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish Foundation for Group Homes Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Howard University Golf | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Landon School | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Diener School Inc | $1,750 | 5 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $1,300 | 6 | 0% |
| Colel Chabad | $1,250 | 3 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $1,200 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adas Israel Hebrew Congregation | $9,816 | 6 | n/a |
| Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc | $8,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Main Street Connect Inc | $6,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish Foundation for Group Homes Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Howard University Golf | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Landon School | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Diener School Inc | $1,750 | 5 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $1,300 | 6 | 0% |
| Colel Chabad | $1,250 | 3 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $1,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $1,013 | 5 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $430 | 5 | 0% |
| Arthritis Foundation Inc | $400 | 1 | n/a |
| American Kidney Fund Inc | $400 | 2 | 0% |
| Parkinson Research Foundation Inc | $350 | 2 | 0% |
| American Diabetes Association | $300 | 2 | 0% |
| Autism Speaks Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Sigma Delta Tau Foundation Inc | $180 | 1 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($28k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Block & Popick Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
About Block & Popick Foundation
- How much does Block & Popick Foundation give?
- Block & Popick Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $22,558 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Block & Popick Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (48%), Religion (15%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
- Who are Block & Popick Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Adas Israel Hebrew Congregation ($10k), Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc ($8k), Main Street Connect Inc ($6k).
- Does Block & Popick Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Block & Popick 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 Block & Popick Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Block & Popick Foundation based?
- Block & Popick Foundation is based in MD.
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