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David and Kimberly Blank Charitable Trust David Blank Ttee at a glance

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David and Kimberly Blank Charitable Trust David Blank Ttee

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$31k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0180% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$219kReligion$85kRecreation & Sports$9kArts & Culture$7kHealth$6kEnvironment$6kFood & Nutrition$4kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,400
Median grant
6
States reached
$436k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE SHOLOM$10,109
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$6,000
WIRE EDUCATION COUNCIL$5,500
CHABAD AT HARVARD$5,400
SQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY$2,350
AMERICAN RED CROSS$1,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $59k → 8%HEARST CASTLE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%WIRE EDUCATION COUNCIL: $6k → 17%EAST SIDE HOUSE SETTLEMENT: $3k → 28%SHARE OUR STRENGTH: $4k → 14%KIDS IN CRISIS: $1k → 9%YALE LAW SCHOOL: $3k → 12%SQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $3k → 10%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $50k → 8%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $6k → 17%GREENWICH POINT CONSERVANCY: $2k → 9%YALE LAW SCHOOLD FUND: $1k → 12%SQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $2k → 10%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $50k → 8%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $500 → 17%GREENWICH POINT CONSERVANCY: $1k → 9%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $50k → 8%INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $1k → 17%GREENWICH POINT CONSERVANCY: $1k → 9%CHABAD AT HARVARD: $9k → 8%INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $1k → 17%TEMPLE SHOLOM: $12k → 9%CHABAD AT HARVARD: $5k → 8%FOUNTAIN HOUSE: $6k → 17%TEMPLE SHOLOM: $10k → 9%HARVARD HILLEL: $1k → 8%TEMPLE SHOLOM: $10k → 9%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $1k → 8%TEMPLE SHOLOM: $10k → 9%TEMPLE SHOLOM: $8k → 9%TEMPLE SHOLOM: $8k → 9%TEMPLE SHOLOM: $8k → 9%MISCELLANEOUS: $5k → 9%TEMPLE SHOLOM: $4k → 9%MISCELLANEOUS: $3k → 9%GHS PTA: $2k → 9%GHS PTA: $2k → 9%MISCELLANEOUS: $1k → 9%GHS PTA: $1k → 9%GHS PTA: $1k → 9%GHS PTA: $875 → 9%MISCELLANEOUS: $518 → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MI
NY
MA
IA
CT
CA
DC
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$110k · 7 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$110k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-36%
+60%

Still filing today

43%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentRecreation & SportsHealthArts & CultureReligionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TS
    TEMPLE SHOLOM INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $70k
  • CH
    CHABAD HOUSE OF HARVARD SQUARE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $14k
  • M
    MISCELLANEOUS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $9k

Funded once

  • FH
    FOUNTAIN HOUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +78%
  • SHARE OUR STRENGTHgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +60%
  • ES
    EAST SIDE HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +9%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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7
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
Hudson Yards Development Corporation

See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Side House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Greenwich Point Conservancy Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 21 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College: $209,543 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College+1 more: $500 · EducationTEMPLE SHOLOM INC: $69,634 · OtherTEMPLE SHOLOM INCCHABAD HOUSE OF HARVARD SQUARE INC: $14,400 · OtherCHABAD HOUSE OF HARVARD SQUARE INCMISCELLANEOUS: $9,418 · OtherMISCELLANEOUSIndividual grant recipient: $5,875 · OtherWIRE EDUCATION COUNCIL: $5,500 · Other+4 more: $8,000 · Other+4 moreSQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $5,600 · EnvironmentGREENWICH POINT CONSERVANCY INC: $3,500 · EnvironmentCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsEAST SIDE HOUSE INC: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $5,995 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 · HealthINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $2,000 · Arts & CultureHEARST CASTLE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureHILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC: $1,018 · ReligionAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 · Human Services
Education$210,043Other$112,827Environment$9,100Recreation & Sports$8,500Health$6,495Arts & Culture$3,000Religion$1,018Human Services$1,000

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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $209,543 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $5,995 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $5,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST SIDE HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC: $1,018 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David and Kimberly Blank Charitable Trust David Blank Ttee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David and Kimberly Blank Charitable Trust David Blank Ttee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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