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Blue Window Foundation at a glance

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Blue Window Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

International$146kCrime & Legal$145kCivil Rights$127kFood & Nutrition$67kHealth$55kPhilanthropy$20k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NY INC$10,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$10,000
FEEDING WESTCHESTER$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%YAMBA MALAWI: $1k → 20%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $75k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $50k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $5k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$528k · 10 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against -37% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

$528k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
-37%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalCivil RightsHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TI
    THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $135k · revenue +35%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $110k · revenue +67%
  • THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $95k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • RN
    Remember NHU Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +17%
  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -66%
  • YM
    YAMBA MALAWI INC
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -37%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

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2
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
3
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
4
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
5
International Bridges to Justice

In recognition of the fundamental principles of the universal declaration of human rights, international bridges to justice (ibj) is dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries. specifically,…

Crime & Legal
6
Parliamentarians for Global Action

Parliamentarians for global action (pga) is a non-partisan ngo network of legislators from all regions of the world acting in their individual capacity to advocate for human rights, democracy, and the rule of law; peace and human security;…

International
7
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights
8
Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services
9
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
10
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
11
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
12
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $135,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesInternational Rescue Committee INC: $110,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Comm…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $16,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES …PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $44,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $42,500 · OtherFEEDING WESTCHESTER IN…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $22,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTI…THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $95,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPROD…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $10,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIAT…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $18,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 · HealthFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $24,500 · Community ImprovementUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyRemember NHU Inc: $10,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$136,000International$126,000Other$109,000Civil Rights$105,000Health$28,500Community Improvement$24,500Philanthropy$20,000Youth Development$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $135,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $110,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $95,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $42,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $24,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $18,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRemember NHU Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYAMBA MALAWI INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Blue Window Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Window Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 14 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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