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Bluco Cares Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
2
Organizations funded FY2022
50%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$1,095
Largest grant, FY2022
$1,095
Organizations funded a year
2 to 26
FY2019 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 50% of the organizations Bluco Cares Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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
FY20222$1k50%
FY202117$15k65%
FY201926$31kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

Health$15kFood & Nutrition$9kRecreation & Sports$7kPhilanthropy$5kHuman Services$5kHousing & Shelter$5kReligion$4kYouth Development$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
NY
IA
PA
CT
CA
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($18k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bluco Cares Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLoaves & Fishes Community Services: $6,125 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Inc: $3,860 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Dupage Sra Foundation: $3,324 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $1,810 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDupage Habitat for Humanity: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBridge Communities Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $1,305 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Action to Deliver Shelter Inc D/B/A Hesed House: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamilies Helping Families: $1,250 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLittle Friends Inc: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Life: $1,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Purple Inc: $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTravis Mills Foundation: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Baldrick's Foundation Inc: $256 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaykeeper: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNaperville Responds for Our Veterans: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMidwest Shelter for Homeless Veterans Inc: $53 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Dupage County Animal Care and Control Foundation: $50 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 19.

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 Dupage Community FoundationIL15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dupage Community Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving 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 Bluco Cares Foundation

How much does Bluco Cares Foundation give?
Bluco Cares Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $1,245 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2022.
What does Bluco Cares Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2022, its largest causes are Health (28%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Recreation & Sports (14%).
Who are Bluco Cares Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2022: Loaves & Fishes Community Services ($6k), Special Olympics Inc ($4k), Western Dupage Sra Foundation ($3k).
Does Bluco Cares Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bluco Cares Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bluco Cares Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dupage Community Foundation, Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
Where is Bluco Cares Foundation based?
Bluco Cares Foundation is based in IL.

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 40 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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