Florida · Private foundation
Ellen & Ronald Block Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $717k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2025
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 53
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Ellen & Ronald Block Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 49 | $699k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 52 | $1.3M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $1.2M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $876k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $576k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $751k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $958k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $733k | 22% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Cats2 Foundation | $1,000,000 | 2 | 99% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $638,850 | 9 | 0% |
| Norton Museum of Art Inc | $501,058 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $315,455 | 5 | 0% |
| Focused Ultrasound Foundation | $292,692 | 4 | 1% |
| Israel Policy Forum Inc | $250,000 | 9 | 2% |
| The Society of the Four Arts Inc | $247,015 | 9 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $199,215 | 9 | 0% |
| Hias Inc | $143,289 | 2 | 0% |
| Feeding South Florida Inc | $140,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 104 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ellen & Ronald Block Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 101 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Fjc · Jewish Communal Fund · Herizon Inc · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ellen & Ronald Block Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Ellen & Ronald Block Family Foundation Inc give?
- Ellen & Ronald Block Family Foundation Inc reported 58 grants totaling $717,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ellen & Ronald Block Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Arts & Culture (18%), International (13%).
- Who are Ellen & Ronald Block Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Cats2 Foundation ($1.0M), The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ($639k), Norton Museum of Art Inc ($501k).
- Does Ellen & Ronald Block Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ellen & Ronald Block Family Foundation Inc 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 Ellen & Ronald Block Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Batchelor Foundation Inc, Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.
- Where is Ellen & Ronald Block Family Foundation Inc based?
- Ellen & Ronald Block Family Foundation Inc is based in FL.
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