How much did BLR FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of BLR FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

boostersathletic

2019

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2020

—

2021

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2022

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2023

cincinnati

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k13 grants · $61k
$10k–50k4 grants · $63k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

PINK RIBBON GIRLS$22,500
DAKOTAS LEGACY FOUNDATION$15,000
THE MAHAN COLLECTION FOUNDATION$15,000
INTERPARISH MINISTRY$10,000
MADI'S HOUSE$9,500
GREYHOUND ATHLETIC BOOSTERS CLUB$8,000
ANDERSON ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB$5,000
FOREST HILLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION$5,000
CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER$5,000
DAYTON HOSPICE$5,000
FRIENDS OF TURPIN$5,000
LITTLE MIAMI CONSERVANCY$5,000
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI$5,000
SHIELD OHIO$5,000
E A EDDIE ROBBINS MEMORIAL FUND INC$2,500

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 72% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$251k · 16 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$251k

$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+147%

+195%

Still filing today

56%

12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

PR
Pink Ribbon Girls Inc
6× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +438%
TB
The Boys and Girls Club
2× · 2019–2020 · $36k · revenue +239%
FO
Friends of Turpin
3× · 2022–2024 · $16k · revenue +49%

Funded once

LC
Lindner Center of Hope
one grant, 2019 · $15k
FD
Frederick Douglas Project
one grant, 2022 · $10k
FA
Families Against Mandatory Minimumsgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +745%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Atrium Medical Center Foundation

Health

HealthFirst Bluegrass Inc

Provide comprehensive primary healthcare services to residents of central kentucky, and specifically medically under-served areas within lexington-fayette county.

Health

Jewish Cemeteries of Greater

Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati, Inc. serves the burial needs of the Greater Cincinnati Jewish community with care and dignity and honors the resting places of our people.

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Bike Miami Valley Ohio

To advocate, promote, and create opportunities for all forms of bicycling in the miami valley.

Recreation & Sports

Arbor Research Collaborative for

To improve patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice.

Health

The Cincinnati Woman's Club

A center for women organized to enrich lives through philanthropic action and educational opportunities.

Community Improvement

Cincy Bike Share Inc

To operate red bike, the cincinnati region's bike share system, providing a transportation option, that increases mobility and adds to the vitality of the region.

Public Benefit

Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber

To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.

Community Improvement

Adagio Health Inc

Adagio health provides health and wellness services to women and their families.

Health

Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati

The academy of medicine is the professional association that exists to organize, represent, advocate for and serve physicians of greater cincinnati.

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City Wildlife Inc

Protection of wildlife and wildlife habitat.

Education

Milwaukee Art Museum Inc

The milwaukee art museum collects and preserves art, presenting it to the community as a vital source of inspiration and education.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atrium Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cincinnati Nature Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/14

Grantees still filing

13/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$254,925Health$59,325Environment$17,250Arts & Culture$15,000Food & Nutrition$500

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.

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.

The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organisation BLR FOUNDATION INC 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.

2025

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: The Boys and Girls Club.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 310616383 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on The Boys and Girls Club, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Blr Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Blr Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BLR FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Blr Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

BLR FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Blr Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph