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BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR
Blocs bridges the business community and individuals with schools in pennsylvania to establish financial assistance to families in need, bolster school infrastructures, and expand educational opportunities for families.
$95M
Granted FY2025
362
Grants
1
Communities
$8.0M
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
giftedjewish greatermontessori philosophyengagesoperateeighth gradephila
2020
preparationacademic socialoperate elementarychildren earlyearly childhoodchildhood eightheighth grade
2021
waldorflogosdiverseautismempowerbecomeisrael
2022
bringspecial educationlogosdiverse grouppreparatory educationfacilitatingcultivates
2023
phelpsboysmallabilityspecial educationsainttrain students
2025
yeshivaheritageeriespecial learningmoral intellectualchrist-centeredchildren christian
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 362 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k92 grants · $2.4M
- $50k–250k159 grants · $19M
- $250k+96 grants · $72M
$111,145
Median grant
1
States reached
$256M
Total assets
Largest grants
- HUNTINGDON VALLEY$8,038,439
- CONESTOGA CHRISTIAN$3,404,948
- BLESSED SACRAMENTS$2,779,862
- DEVON PREPARATORY SCHOOL$2,485,381
- REGINA LUMINUS ACADEMY$1,811,686
- MERCY SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL LEARNING$1,728,840
- LIGUORI ACADEMY$1,609,235
- KOHELET YESHIVA$1,532,542
- THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES$1,489,625
- ACADEMY OF NOTRE DAME DE NAMUR$1,439,805
- CHRIST THE DIVINE TEACHER$1,438,032
- PHILADELPHIA CHRISTIAN CENTER$1,423,548
- HOLY CROSS REGIONAL$1,234,625
- LANCASTER CATHOLIC$1,195,630
- ST JOSEPH ST ROBERT$1,175,500
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 9%. 84% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$341M · 293 repeat orgs$39M to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
293 repeat relationships — 242 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 111 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
293
48
Total granted
$341M
$2.3M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+28%
+22%
Still filing today
32%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesReligionArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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
- STST THOMAS AQUINAS7× · 2018–2025 · $26M · revenue +11%
- THTHE HAVERFORD SCHOOL6× · 2018–2023 · $12M · revenue +16%
- CRCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL7× · 2018–2025 · $11M · revenue +28%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH SCHOOLSone grant, 2019 · $489k · revenue +21%
- PPAALgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $270k · revenue +64%
- LULASALLE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -26%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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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The Christian Academy
The christian academy provides christian education to 300 students from kindergarten to 12th grade. the christian academy is a college-preparatory school.
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2
Presbyterian School
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child.
Education
3
Cornerstone Christian School
Education from pre-k through grade 11.
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4
Manhattan Christian School
Education - private school grades preschool through twelfth
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5
The Childrens School for Child-Centered
School - preschool to 8th grade.
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6
The Collegiate School
See schedule o to create a diverse and inclusive community of learners committed to a challenging and supportive educational experience that will foster the intellectual, moral, emotional, and physical development of each student.
Education
7
The Grosse Pointe Academy
The grosse pointe academy is an independent, coeducational day school serving children in early school through grade eight. the academy is a christian based school that embraces students from all religions.
Education
8
Capitol Hill Day School
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Education
9
Washington School Principals Education
Support k-12 education for pupils and professional development to principals in wa state.
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10
Philips Academy Charter School of Paterson
We will provide a moral and rigorous education, accomplished in a hands-on, technology infused educational environment that will allow our students to attend college, while developing a commitment to global citizenship,
Education
11
Ghs Academy
Inspiring a love of learning and empowering each child to achieve their personal best.
Education
12
Ambleside School
Ambleside school is a christ-centered school committed to providing a charlotte mason "living education." in partnership with the family, the school guides and empowers each student to think with the mind of christ and to author a life…
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Crefeld School and the most unlike its peers is La Salle University. 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.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
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 61 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/452
the rest of the field
9%
4,069/43,526
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.
05the grantee network
162 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
49
Early backer (in before they grew)
159/162
Grantees still filing
131/162
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$239,810,055Education$132,925,333Human Services$3,263,103Religion$2,171,652Philanthropy$806,982Arts & Culture$756,061Public Benefit$728,630
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 ST THOMAS AQUINAS (IMS) ↗
- Who funds THE HAVERFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GESU SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DEVON PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LASALLE ACADEMY 32008 ↗
- Who funds THE EPISCOPAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE BALDWIN SCHOOL TOTAL ↗
- Who funds LIGUORI ACADEMY TOTAL ↗
- Who funds THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DREXEL NEUMANN ACADEMY 35037 ↗
- Who funds REGINA LUMINUS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES EPISCOPAL ↗
- Who funds NORWOOD FONTBONNE AC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES ↗
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.
Central Pennsylvania Scholarship FundPA172.7× affinity108 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · Henkels Foundation · Elevate 215 · The Maguire Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Day Schools Of · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila · Hamilton 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 organisation BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE SAMUEL SCHOOL.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.5× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 262486915 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on THE SAMUEL SCHOOL, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 88% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to Business Leadership Organized For through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines