Vermont · Private foundation
Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $687k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2024
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 48
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $362k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 36 | $677k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $737k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $773k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $633k | 61% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $527k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $625k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $495k | 45% |
| FY2017 | 35 | $402k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc | $250,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Institute for Social Ecology | $201,500 | 8 | 36% |
| Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc | $180,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Migrant Justice Inc | $165,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc | $145,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Blue Ridge Discovery Center Inc | $133,060 | 6 | 5% |
| Rural Education Action Project | $120,000 | 5 | 17% |
| Refugee & Immigrant Fund Incorporated | $105,000 | 6 | 20% |
| Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc | $93,700 | 6 | 2% |
| Minglewood Farm and Nature Preserve | $82,688 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 138 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($717k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 122 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.
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How this is measured
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About Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc
- How much does Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc give?
- Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc reported 37 grants totaling $686,520 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 48 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (26%), Food & Nutrition (21%), Health (13%).
- Who are Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ($250k), Institute for Social Ecology ($202k), Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc ($180k).
- Does Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harris & Frances Block 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 Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc, Lintilhac Foundation Inc.
- Where is Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc based?
- Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc is based in VT.
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