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Blum Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $415k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIDS UNLIMITED OF OREGON | $100,000 |
| FAMILY NURTURING CENTER | $100,000 |
| MASLOW PROJECT | $75,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $75,000 |
| JPR FOUNDATION - HOLLY THEATER | $64,500 |
| WALKING TALL SOUTHERN OREGON | $15,000 |
| CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF SO OR | $10,000 |
| MISCELLANEOUS | $7,000 |
| H O P E EQUESTRIAN CENTER | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY WORKS | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of Blum Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in OR; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +108% since the first grant, against +102% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TFTHE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER ROGUE VALLEY CHILDREN'S RELIEF NURSERY8× · 2017–2024 · $755k · revenue +138%
- KUKIDS UNLIMITED OF OREGON8× · 2017–2024 · $755k · revenue +106%
- MPMASLOW PROJECT8× · 2017–2024 · $540k · revenue +108%
Funded once
OREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIMEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +494%- MPMEDFORD PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -112%
- NBNORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +102%
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.
To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.
Head start & other children services
To enhance and promote economic vitality and quality of life in southern oregon using business and community resources; fostering communication and collaboration on issues paramount to business success.
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
The organization's mission is to increase the quantity of high quality food commodities donated to the oregon food bank network through a partnership of farmers, food processors, the oregon food bank network and the public.
Our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger by empowering our community. we respond to the root causes of hunger and supports our community by striving to nourish, restore dignity, provide health and champion…
Promote and project socially responsible agriculture in oregon, while working to support independent, family scale farmers and rachers who are ecologically farming in ways that are respectful of land, animals and community.
Enhance delivery of quality, integrated, accessible services
Help reduce hunger in jackson county. our recipients are treated with compassion, dignity and respect.
Facilitate healthy meals for children.
Mobilizing the community to uplift children and families impacted by foster care in Oregon.
We work collectively to educate and advocate for systems that elevate the vital work of care and caregiving in its many forms within our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Works Inc and the most unlike its peers is Neighborhood Food Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 22 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 THE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER ROGUE VALLEY CHILDREN'S RELIEF NURSERY ↗
- Who funds KIDS UNLIMITED OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds MASLOW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ACCESS ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COUNTY CHILD ABUSE TASK FORCE DBA CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WALKING TALL SOUTHERN OREGON ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME ↗
- Who funds MEDFORD PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES ↗
- Who funds HOPE EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ASANTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jackson County Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDFORD FOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COUNTY 4-H FFA JR LIVESTOCK AUCTION COMMITTEE INC ↗
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: Carrico Family Foundation · The Carpenter Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Robert and Frances Chaney Family Foundation · Joe & Frances Naumes Family Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · West Family Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · The Leightman Maxey Foundation · United Way of Jackson County Inc · Anna May Family 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 Blum Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Access — 65% of income from government
- Community Works Inc — 59% of income from government
- Oregon Center for Creative Learning Dba Kid Time — 42% of income from government
- The Family Nurturing Center Rogue Valley Children's Relief Nursery — 38% of income from government
- Maslow Project — 22% of income from government
- Hope Equestrian Center — 3% 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.
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