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George and June Block Family Foundation

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.

$839k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$3.5MHuman Services$698kRecreation & Sports$620kEducation$546kFood & Nutrition$313kHousing & Shelter$225kReligion$112kPublic Safety & Disaster$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $258k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWEST COMMUNITY HOSPITAL$500,000
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK$40,000
DRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION$30,000
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$25,000
GILDA'S CLUB$25,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$25,000
ST LUKES WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION$15,000
WOOD RIVER COMMUNITY YMCA$15,000
UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL$12,500
HIGHER GROUND$10,000
THE SENIOR CONNECTION$10,000
WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION$10,000
RISELINE CARBON FOUNDATION$10,000
ST MALACHY SCHOOL$10,000
PETTIT NATIONAL ICE CENTER$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $224k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $20k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $15k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $15k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $15k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $10k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $10k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $8k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $8k → 7%YMCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $5k → 14%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $5k → 7%YMCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $5k → 14%YMCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $3k → 14%LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION: $7k → 14%LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION: $7k → 14%LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION: $7k → 14%LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION: $7k → 14%LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION: $4k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $4k → 14%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

VT
ID
IL
WI
MI
IN
NJ
CA
UT
KY
MD
FL
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.9M · 50 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
11

Total granted

$6.9M
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+3%

Still filing today

56%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • NC
    Northwest Community Hospital
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +36%
  • PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $650k · revenue +24%
  • DS
    DRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $223k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • LC
    LURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONMILESTONE
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • PH
    PRESENCE HEALTH FOUNDATIONAMITA HEALTH FND
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
Northwest Community Healthcare

NORTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE follows the mission of Endeavor Health. The mission of Endeavor Health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." Central to this mission is a commitment to providing clinical programs and…

Health
2
Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare

Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

Health
3
Northern Illinois Blood Bank Inc D/B/a Rock River Valley Blood Center

Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.

Health
4
Swedish Covenant Health

Swedish Covenant Health follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

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5
The Cardiac Institute

Our mission is to help people to live longer, healthier lives with dignity, and to use all of our resources to give them everything they expect and deserve in comprehensive cardiovascular care for their families and themselves.

Health
6
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
7
Rush Copley Medical Center

To improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
8
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
9
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
10
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
11
Edward Hospital

Edward Hospital follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

Health
12
Augusta Health Care Inc

The mission of augusta health is to strengthen the health and well-being of all people in our communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Presence Health Foundation Board of Trustees; the most unlike its peers is Boots on the Court 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

31 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. 31 of the 62 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/31
Grantees still filing
24/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Northwest Community Hospital: $1,745,000 · HealthNorthwest Community HospitalPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $650,000 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INCGILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO: $425,000 · HealthGILDA'S CLUB CHICAGOCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $175,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $115,000 · Health+2 more: $147,000 · HealthTHE SALVATION ARMY: $285,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYPRESENCE HEALTH FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $250,000 · OtherPRESENCE HEALTH FOUNDATION BOARD OF T…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION: $225,700 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO FOUNDA…HOLY CROSS SCHOOL: $155,000 · OtherHOLY CROSS SCHOOLST MALACHY SCHOOL: $140,000 · OtherST MALACHY SCHOOLWOOD RIVER COMMUNITY YMCA: $125,750 · OtherWOOD RIVER COMMUNITY YMCASUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $109,100 · OtherPARK RIDGE SPEED SKATING CLUB INC: $100,000 · OtherMERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $77,500 · OtherThe Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame: $79,000 · Other+31 more: $729,200 · Other+31 moreDRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $223,000 · PhilanthropyMichael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $130,000 · PhilanthropyBoots on the Court Inc: $35,000 · PhilanthropyPETTIT NATIONAL ICE CENTER INC: $132,000 · Recreation & SportsHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $94,000 · Recreation & SportsWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION: $92,000 · Recreation & SportsGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $222,000 · Food & NutritionWEST DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY: $40,000 · Food & NutritionCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $150,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC: $85,000 · Housing & ShelterBLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $105,200 · Human ServicesHoward Area Community Center: $59,000 · Human ServicesLYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION: $47,000 · Human ServicesYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $12,500 · Human Services
Health$3,257,000Other$2,276,250Philanthropy$388,000Recreation & Sports$318,000Food & Nutrition$262,000Housing & Shelter$235,000Human Services$223,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwest Community Hospital: $1,745,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $650,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO: $425,000 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetPRESENCE HEALTH FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $250,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetDRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $223,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $222,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $150,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetPETTIT NATIONAL ICE CENTER INC: $132,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetMichael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $130,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $115,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $109,100 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $105,200 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $105,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPARK RIDGE SPEED SKATING CLUB INC: $100,000 over 6y, 32% of budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $94,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION: $92,000 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC: $85,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetThe Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame: $79,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOlive Branch Mission: $61,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHoward Area Community Center: $59,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION: $47,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLa Rabida Children's Hospital: $42,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWEST DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY: $40,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetSun Valley Community School Inc: $36,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBoots on the Court Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY CHARITABLE FUND INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetKALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds Northwest Community Hospital ↗
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds GILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds PRESENCE HEALTH FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds DRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
  • Who funds PETTIT NATIONAL ICE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PARK RIDGE SPEED SKATING CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame ↗
  • Who funds Olive Branch Mission ↗
  • Who funds Howard Area Community Center ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
  • Who funds LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds La Rabida Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds WEST DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds Sun Valley Community School Inc ↗
  • Who funds Boots on the Court 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.

AbbVie FoundationIL14× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jd Robertson Foundation · Spur Community Foundation Inc · Heinz Family Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 George and June Block Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George and June Block Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to George and June Block Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 62 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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