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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. The association provides a variety of services to member plans and coordinates government services, such as the contract under the federal employee health benefit program (fep),…

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
26
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$550,000
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$1.2B
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Youth Development$1.1MHealth$726kPublic Benefit$450kHousing & Shelter$250kEmployment$171kCommunity Improvement$150kFood & Nutrition$128kCivil Rights$100kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MA
NJ
CT
UT
KY
VA
MD
KS
DC
HI
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of America: $1,050,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAlliance to Fight for Health Care: $250,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetBlue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation on Health Care: $200,054 over 2y, 98% of budgetPartnership for America's Health Care Future Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFederal Employee Education and Assistance Fund: $171,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetThe Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity: $150,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetAmerican Action Forum Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetAmerica's Health Insurance Plans Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouse Majority Forward: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNational Governors Association Center for Best Practices: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOne Nation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBlessings in a Backpack Inc: $52,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Arc of Prince George's County Inc: $43,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGardeneers: $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUnion League Boys and Girls Clubs: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Academy of Family Physicians: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCradles to Crayons Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Escalante Heritage Center: $22,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNourishing Hope: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSandy Hook Promise Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil for Native Hawaiian Advancement: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNurses Organization of Veterans Affairs: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHope For The Warriors: $5,562 over 1y, 0.1% 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 28.

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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.

Federation of American HospitalsDC15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

How much does Blue Cross Blue Shield Association give?
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association reported 16 grants totaling $1,215,062 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Blue Cross Blue Shield Association fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (34%), Health (23%), Public Benefit (14%).
Who are Blue Cross Blue Shield Association's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Boys & Girls Clubs of America ($1.1M), Alliance to Fight for Health Care ($250k), Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation on Health Care ($200k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Blue Cross Blue Shield Association?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Federation of American Hospitals, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, American Hospital Association.
Where is Blue Cross Blue Shield Association based?
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association 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 30 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 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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