· Private foundation
Cary & Karen Blair Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEDINA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $8,000 |
| BUTLER UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 20% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BUButler University4× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +39%
- BIBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART2× · 2023–2024 · $16k · revenue +21%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MEDINA COUNTY5× · 2018–2023 · $15k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- CCCLEVELAND CLINICone grant, 2022 · $12k
- RLRON LANDMANN MD RESEARCHone grant, 2017 · $5k
- NHNASSAU HUMANE SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +91%
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.
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.
Community Animal Treatment Center (CATC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to delivering high-quality, high-volume spay and neuter (HQHVSN) services for community cats and pets, with a focus on supporting low-income…
Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…
We transform the lives of animals with compassionate care and services, outstanding educational programs, and advocacy for all animals.
Manage the feral cat population in Palm Beach, Florida
To provide for the health, welfare & safety of community cats and continue to expand our program to include cats with special needs or requiring extra medical attention that have no hope or option without our help. To continue outreach to…
The kansas city campus for animal care (kccac) is a public-private partnership between the city of kansas city, missouri, and kansas city pet project. (continued on schedule o)the campus is operated by kc pet project, focusing on pet…
To reduce the number of homeless cats and dogs in greater cincinnati by providing a compassionate, no-kill animal shelter and programs that promote responsible pet care.
Humane treatment of stray dogs and cats
Rescue & find homes for cats; spay, nueter and adopt out as many cats as possible. Provice foster care homes for unadopted. Provide Vet care. Educate the public about over population available programs.
To control the overpopulation of unwanted, abandoned, or lost and homeless pets by trapping, spaying-neutering, vaccinating such pets and releasing them into their natural habitat or arranging for their adoption as an alternative to…
The society provides shelter and care for animals, humane law enforcement, informational services to the community regarding animal care and a clinic that spays and neuters animals as well as providing other care
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Butler University ↗
- Who funds BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MEDINA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AMELIA ISLAND PLANTATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds Leadership Medina County ↗
- Who funds PAW WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds NASSAU HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Kitten Krazy Inc ↗
- Who funds Nassau County Chamber of Commerce Inc ↗
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: The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cary & Karen Blair Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cary & Karen Blair Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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