· Private foundation
Hughie & Selma Black Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP GAN ISRAEL | $2,000 |
| PROJECT HOME | $1,500 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY | $1,000 |
| EXPERIENCE CAMPS | $500 |
| PINE TREE SOCIETY | $500 |
| GOLDEN SLIPPERS CLUB | $275 |
| THE FRESH AIR FUND | $250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SCSUMMER CAMP OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTE EDUCATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +52%
- CGCAMP GAN ISRAEL INC3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue ×77
- PHPROJECT HOME3× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- PPEECone grant, 2022 · $10k
- JFJEWISH FEDERATIONone grant, 2021 · $8k
- JFJEWISH FED OF GREATER PHILLYone grant, 2023 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Operation of summer day camp and overnight camp which combines activities with a Torah education
Organized for the purpose of maintaining and operating camping facilities for children in the greater philadelphia area.
Instilling inspiration and empowerment, while enhancing the lives of children with serious illnesses.
Unicamp student volunteers harness the healing power of the wilderness to provide a unique outdoor camping experience for at-risk children. through relationship-building, leadership and character development, and just plain fun, unicamp…
To help the local church evangelize and disciple their youth and to strengthen their families to be conformed to the image of christ through the nondenominational ministry of the organization.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Camp ramah's mission is to create a nurturing, safe, fun-filled, vibrant jewish community that inspires the education, social, cultural, moral, physical, and emotional growth of campers and staff, fostering life-long jewish identity. ramah…
Children's services
Camp Casco builds community for families affected by childhood cancer in New England through free camps and social opportunities.
Camp hasc provides an overnight summer program for special needs individuals.camp hasc is unique in its ability to meet the complex personal, social, therapeutic and medical needs of our very special individuals.
To build independence and self-confidence in children and youth with disabilities by engaging them in vocational, recreational, social, and educational enrichment activities, while connecting families to resources. variety serves children…
To enhance the quality of life for children and adults with special needs, including autism and physical and intellectual disabilities, and provide respite for their families through a year-round camp experience, based in monmouth county,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fresh Air Fund and the most unlike its peers is Variety the Childrens Charity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SUMMER CAMP OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP GAN ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds Variety the Childrens Charity ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PINE TREE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE CAMPS ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Hughie & Selma Black Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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