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Bloomer Family 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.

$211k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$499kPublic Safety & Disaster$101kHuman Services$85kEducation$72kFood & Nutrition$34kEnvironment$33kArts & Culture$10kHousing & Shelter$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $125k
$2,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF THE MONTEREY$25,000
GILLETTE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$20,000
CHILDRENS CANCER RESEARCH FUND$20,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$20,000
MAYO CLINIC$20,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION$10,000
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION$5,500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$5,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC$5,000
BIG SUR LAND TRUST$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$5,000
ROSIE'S PLACE$4,000
ORONO FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION$4,000
HAMMER RESIDENCES INC$3,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $3k → 8%Friends of Kenyan Orphans: $5k → 21%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 14%FRIENDS OF KENYAN ORPHANS: $3k → 21%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%PEACE HOUSE INC: $2k → 5%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%PEACE HOUSE INC: $2k → 5%PEACE HOUSE INC: $500 → 5%THE LINK: $3k → 11%THE LINK: $2k → 11%FAITHS LODGE: $2k → 11%FAITHS LODGE: $1k → 11%FAITHS LODGE: $1k → 11%FAITHS LODGE: $500 → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES: $10k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES: $10k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES INC: $10k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES INC: $5k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES INC: $3k → 11%FAITHS LODGE: $2k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES INC: $3k → 11%FAITHS LODGE: $1k → 11%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

VT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
CA
UT
MO
VA
KS
TN
DC
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.
$797k · 42 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
17

Total granted

$797k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

76%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +38%
  • GC
    Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +21%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $60k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue -34%
  • S
    STAND4KIND
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -4%
  • AS
    American Society for the Prevention of
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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2
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
3
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
4
Minnesota Land Trust

The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.

Environment
5
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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6
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
7
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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8
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
9
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
10
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
11
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope; the most unlike its peers is Northside Boxing Club 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

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 76 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
33/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC: $65,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICCOMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF THE MONTEREY: $35,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF THE MONTEREYINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $20,000 · OtherINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY …ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $20,000 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT…SALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORP: $17,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORPPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTWIN CITIES SALVATION ARMY: $10,000 · OtherCONVOY OF HOPE: $10,000 · Other+32 more: $85,400 · Other+32 moreGillette Children's Hospital Foundation: $95,000 · HealthGillette Children's Hospit…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $60,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARC…MAYO CLINIC: $20,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICMONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthMONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATIONHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $9,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red…Hammer Residences Inc: $41,000 · Human ServicesHammer Residences IncFRIENDS OF KENYAN ORPHANS: $7,500 · Human ServicesCHILD LOSS FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Human Services+4 more: $16,600 · Human Services+4 moreCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $95,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S CANC…PETER MICHAEL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyPETER MICHAEL F…PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyNAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationNAVAL POS…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationSTEPHEN S…ORONO FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $7,500 · EducationORONO FOU…GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $7,000 · EducationGERALD R …Park City Education Foundation: $5,500 · EducationPark City…STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · EducationSTEPPINGS…STAND4KIND: $3,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationFeeding America: $20,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $1,500 · Food & NutritionBig Sur Land Trust: $10,000 · EnvironmentSummit Land Conservancy: $3,500 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $2,000 · EnvironmentUTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 · Environment+1 more: $500 · Environment
Other$272,400Health$209,000Human Services$172,600Philanthropy$121,000Education$73,000Food & Nutrition$23,500Environment$21,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $95,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGillette Children's Hospital Foundation: $95,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHammer Residences Inc: $41,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPETER MICHAEL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBig Sur Land Trust: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KENYAN ORPHANS: $7,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetORONO FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHILD LOSS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPoint Lobos Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $5,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPark City Education Foundation: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTOGETHER RISING: $5,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELLESLEY THEATRE PROJECT INC: $4,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPeace House Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LINK: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSummit Land Conservancy: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE BOXING CLUB INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Dog Rescue NE Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE CHARITIES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABBEY'S HOPE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CURRENT INC: $500 over 1y, 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.

Mightycause Charitabl…Sad Foundation IncPark City Community F…Promontory FoundationF Cubed FoundationSsir Cares IncThe Minneapolis Found…Quinn Family Char Fdn…Byrne Family Foundati…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Bessemer Giving F…Tom Wilson Foundation…
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL24.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Sad Foundation Inc · Park City Community Foundation · Promontory Foundation · F Cubed Foundation · Ssir Cares Inc · The Minneapolis Foundation · Quinn Family Char Fdn Inc · Byrne Family Foundation Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Tom Wilson Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 76 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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