California · Private foundation
Blume 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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Blume Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 16 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $1.1M | 6% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $2.2M | 25% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $992k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOMAN Inc | $800,000 | 7 | 25% |
| Destiny Arts Center | $800,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Peninsula Humane Society & Spca | $640,000 | 7 | 1% |
| St Anthony Foundation | $160,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Mid-Peninsula Boys & Girls Club Inc | $160,000 | 7 | 8% |
| Jasper Ridge Farm | $80,000 | 7 | 5% |
| San Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Bridge School | $16,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Mission Economic Development Agency | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Blume Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Blume Foundation
- How much does Blume Foundation give?
- Blume Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $1,077,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Blume Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (45%), Youth Development (11%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Blume Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: WOMAN Inc ($800k), Destiny Arts Center ($800k), Peninsula Humane Society & Spca ($640k).
- Does Blume Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Blume Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Blume Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Bothin Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is Blume Foundation based?
- Blume Foundation is based in CA.
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