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Block 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Block Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Block Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 29 organizations, $331k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k25 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE DOE FUND | $41,000 |
| GETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT | $30,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $25,500 |
| HARLEM GROWN | $25,000 |
| VIEQUES CONSERVATION AND HISTORICAL TRUST | $20,000 |
| MICRO AID INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| BROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND | $15,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PUERTO RICO | $15,000 |
| WOMEN'S SUPPORT SERVICES | $15,000 |
| MUSICIANS ON CALL | $13,320 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES | $10,000 |
| SALISBURY FAMILY SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| NOMI NETWORK | $7,750 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2019, 29 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- GOGETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC4× · 2017–2020 · $207k · revenue +165%
THE DOE FUND INC4× · 2017–2020 · $96k · revenue +37%- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC5× · 2017–2022 · $69k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- DVDEFY VENTURES INCone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -17%
- NCNORTHWEST CORNER PRESERVATION INCone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -79%
- MTMOVE THIS WORLD INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -98%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
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The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.
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.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 71 of the 106 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds GETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIEQUES CONSERVATION AND HISTORICAL TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ALFRED UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM GROWN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PUERTO RICO INC ↗
- Who funds MICROAID INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NOMI NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Project Rhythm Inc ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SAGE INC ↗
- Who funds VIEQUESLOVE INC ↗
- Who funds PRATT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MUSICIANS ON CALL INC ↗
- Who funds WATTS OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds DEFY VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds LEAP INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORKERS AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE PROGRAM INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Express Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Silver Mountain Foundation for the Arts · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Steven Aresty Foundation · Middle Road Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Block Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Salisbury Association Inc — 54% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Music Mountain Incorporated — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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