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Blr Foundation Inc

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.

$124k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
45%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$22,500
Organizations funded a year
4 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 45% of the organizations Blr Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$124k35%
FY202311$54k45%
FY202210$52k70%
FY20218$24k63%
FY20204$25k25%
FY20196$59k67%
FY20186$4k67%
FY20176$5kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$90kYouth Development$62kRecreation & Sports$43kArts & Culture$25kFood & Nutrition$22kEnvironment$17kHuman Services$15kPhilanthropy$11kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pink Ribbon Good Inc$44,12560%
Dakota S Legacy Foundation Inc$22,0002n/a
Inter Parish Ministry Inc$21,00050%
Friends of Turpin Co Turpin High School$15,50033%
The Mahan Collection Foundation Inc$15,00014%
Anderson Athletic Boosters Club$13,80051%
Madis House Inc$12,00021%
Little Miami Conservancy$10,50021%
Families Against Mandatory Minimums$10,00011%
Greyhound Athletic Booster Club$8,00018%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($148k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Blr Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPink Ribbon Good Inc: $44,125 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetInter Parish Ministry Inc: $21,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Turpin Co Turpin High School: $15,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetThe Mahan Collection Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetAnderson Athletic Boosters Club: $13,800 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMadis House Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLittle Miami Conservancy: $10,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFamilies Against Mandatory Minimums: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGreyhound Athletic Booster Club: $8,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetCincinnati Nature Center: $6,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cincinnati Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetForest Hills Foundation for Education Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJovante Woods Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtrium Health Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeechwood Home: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHouse of Bread: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Blr Foundation Inc

How much does Blr Foundation Inc give?
Blr Foundation Inc reported 17 grants totaling $123,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Blr Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (26%), Youth Development (18%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
Who are Blr Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pink Ribbon Good Inc ($44k), Dakota S Legacy Foundation Inc ($22k), Inter Parish Ministry Inc ($21k).
Does Blr Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Blr Foundation Inc 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 Blr Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Blr Foundation Inc based?
Blr Foundation Inc is based in OH.

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 38 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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