· Public charity
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
The association serves its membership consisting of independent blue cross and blue shield member plans that operate within specific geographic service areas.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $109k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $550k
- $250k+1 grant · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $550,000 |
| ALLIANCE TO FIGHT THE FORTY (AKA ALLIANCE TO FIGHT FOR HEALTH CARE) | $150,000 |
| BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD FOUNDATION ON HEALTH CARE | $100,000 |
| NAACP | $100,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION OF RESEARCH ON EQUAL OPPORTUNITY (FREOPP) | $50,000 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $50,000 |
| KEEP AMERICANS COVERED | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN ACTION FORUM | $50,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $28,000 |
| UNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $20,000 |
| GARDENEERS | $15,000 |
| ESCALENT | $13,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $12,500 |
| SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YMCA | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $269k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +35%
- ATAlliance to Fight for Health Care2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +54%
- AAAMERICAN ACTION FORUM INC2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR AMERICA'S HEALTH CARE FUTURE INCone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -70%
- FEFEDERAL EMPLOYEE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE FUNDone grant, 2023 · $171k · revenue -18%
- AHAMERICA'S HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS INCone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue -13%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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To accelerate the nation's progress towards safe, efficient, high - quality health care and the improved health status of the american population.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Escalante Heritage Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Alliance to Fight for Health Care ↗
- Who funds BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD FOUNDATION ON HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR AMERICA'S HEALTH CARE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERAL EMPLOYEE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACTION FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH ON EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD ↗
- Who funds ONE NATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds KEEP AMERICANS COVERED ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GARDENEERS ↗
- Who funds UNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ESCALANTE HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds Nurses Organization of Veterans Affairs ↗
- Who funds Hope For The Warriors ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Federation of American Hospitals · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · American Hospital Association · Biotechnology Innovation Organization · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization Blue Cross Blue Shield Association 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.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Arc of Prince George's County Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
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 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.