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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.

$331k
Granted FY2019
39
Grants FY2019
9
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

49
’17
48
’18
29
’19
21
’20
0
’21
1
’22
0
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$5.8MCrime & Legal$295kHealth$235kHousing & Shelter$147kCivil Rights$127kEnvironment$111kInternational$107kEducation$87kOther$0
02FY2019 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k25 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $270k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$383k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DOE FUND$41,000
GETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT$30,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$25,500
HARLEM GROWN$25,000
MICRO AID INTERNATIONAL$20,000
VIEQUES CONSERVATION AND HISTORICAL TRUST$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
WOMEN'S SUPPORT SERVICES$15,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PUERTO RICO$15,000
BROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND$15,000
MUSICIANS ON CALL$13,320
NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES$10,000
SALISBURY FAMILY SERVICES INC$10,000
NOMI NETWORK$7,750
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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMEN'S SUPPORT SERVICES: $15k → 9%WOMEN'S SUPPORT SERVICES: $5k → 9%WOMEN'S SUPPORT SERVICES: $2k → 9%WOMEN'S SUPPORT SERVICES: $1k → 9%SALISBURY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10k → 9%SALISBURY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10k → 9%SALISBURY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5k → 9%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $1k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $1k → 17%HARTLEY HOUSE: $550 → 17%HARTLEY HOUSE: $500 → 17%HARTLEY HOUSE: $250 → 17%TANENBAUM CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING: $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

WA
IL
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
NM
DC
LA
AL
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 60 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
31

Total granted

$1.4M
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+23%

Still filing today

68%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEducationHealthInternationalOther
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

  • GO
    GETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $207k · revenue +165%
  • THE DOE FUND INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $96k · revenue +37%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $69k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • DV
    DEFY VENTURES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -17%
  • NC
    NORTHWEST CORNER PRESERVATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -79%
  • EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +10%
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

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.

1
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
3
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
4
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
5
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
6
University of New Haven

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…

Education
7
New York Botanical Garden

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…

Environment
8
Long Island University

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.

—
9
New York University

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.

Education
10
New Museum of Contemporary Art

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
The Architectural League of New York

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 106 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/71
Grantees still filing
53/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $5,752,281 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+2 more: $13,000 · PhilanthropyPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $125,500 · OtherPLANNED PAREN…THE VIEQUES CONSERVATION AND HISTORICAL TRUST INC: $58,750 · OtherTHE VIEQUES C…HOUSING & SOLUTIONS INC: $43,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PUERTO RICO INC: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $32,000 · OtherNATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC: $30,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF RHODE ISLAND: $30,000 · OtherMICROAID INTERNATIONAL INC: $40,000 · OtherHARLEM GROWN INC: $40,500 · Other+76 more: $418,591 · Other+76 moreGETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC: $206,564 · Crime & LegalBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $42,000 · Crime & LegalNOMI NETWORK INC: $38,750 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $10,000 · Crime & LegalTHE DOE FUND INC: $96,000 · Housing & ShelterLEAP INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $60,500 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $50,000 · Civil RightsALFRED UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationPRATT INSTITUTE: $20,000 · EducationDEFY VENTURES INC: $15,000 · Education+4 more: $2,750 · EducationCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $68,800 · Recreation & SportsFRESH AIR FUND: $3,000 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$5,765,281Other$858,341Crime & Legal$297,314Housing & Shelter$111,000Civil Rights$110,500Education$87,750Recreation & Sports$71,800

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $5,752,281 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC: $206,564 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $96,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $68,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $60,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIEQUES CONSERVATION AND HISTORICAL TRUST INC: $58,750 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALFRED UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $42,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHARLEM GROWN INC: $40,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetMICROAID INTERNATIONAL INC: $40,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetNOMI NETWORK INC: $38,750 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetProject Rhythm Inc: $25,800 over 3y, 25% of budgetSALISBURY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetPROJECT SAGE INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetVIEQUESLOVE INC: $21,500 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetPRATT INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICIANS ON CALL INC: $19,320 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWATTS OF LOVE: $19,250 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDEFY VENTURES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEAP INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORKERS AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE INC: $11,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC: $9,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH ACTION PROGRAMS AND HOMES INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST CORNER PRESERVATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVE THIS WORLD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMusic Mountain Incorporated: $3,850 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHappy Sonship: $2,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC: $2,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KRISTEN ANN CARR FUND: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S PRISON ASSOCIATION AND HOME: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH COALITION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEHIND THE BOOK INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

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 Express Foun…The Hyde and Watson F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The New York Communit…Silver Mountain Found…Berkshire Taconic Com…Jewish Communal FundSteven Aresty Foundat…Middle Road FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Northwest Connecticut…Brooklyn Community Fo…
American Express FoundationNY20.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Block Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Block Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Block Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Block 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.

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 106 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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