· Private foundation
Hughie & Selma Black 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY | $10,000 |
| UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $5,000 |
| SUMMER CAMP OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTE EDUCATION INC AKA SCOPE | $5,000 |
| SETEBAID SERVICES INC AKA CAMP SETEBAID | $3,600 |
| PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL | $3,000 |
| MORRY'S CAMP INC AKA PROJECT MORRY | $2,000 |
| CAMP GAN ISRAEL | $2,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $1,800 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY AKA KATZ JCC | $1,250 |
| PROJECT HOME | $1,000 |
| POCONO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER AKA PEEC | $1,000 |
| CAMP FOR ALL KIDS | $500 |
| GLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA | $500 |
| EXPERIENCE CAMPS | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSUMMER CAMP OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTE EDUCATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +52%
- PHPROJECT HOME4× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +5%
- CGCAMP GAN ISRAEL INC3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue ×77
Funded once
- PPEECone grant, 2022 · $10k
- JFJEWISH FEDERATIONone grant, 2021 · $8k
- JFJEWISH FED OF GREATER PHILLYone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
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.
Operation of summer day camp and overnight camp which combines activities with a Torah education
Creating life-long jewish connections one happy camper at a time.
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
The primary purpose of the organization is to operate and maintain an educational and recreational institute for adults and a summer camp for children in hopewell junction, new york that would provide opportunities to develop new skills…
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…
Organized for the purpose of maintaining and operating camping facilities for children in the greater philadelphia area.
Camp tel yehudah inspires jewish and zionist youth around the world to experience and embrace the diversity of the jewish people in a joyful and diverse community while training them to become leaders who effect positive change for the…
To enhance the day camp experience, promote jewish values, and provide a safe environment for the campers and staff who call our campgrounds home.
Camps For Kids' mission is to ensure that no Kansas City-area child is turned away from summer camp because of low income or physical, medical or developmental disability.
Instilling inspiration and empowerment, while enhancing the lives of children with serious illnesses.
Committed to providing jewish boys with a safe, vibrant and nurturing summer environment where "friendships are built to last a lifetime". we foster values of teamwork, leadership, self-confidence and respect for one another based on…
To connect young people to the outdoors, to others and to themselves.
How this is measured
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 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SUMMER CAMP OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP GAN ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE CAMPS ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Variety the Childrens Charity ↗
- Who funds PINE TREE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Camp for All Kids ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hughie & Selma Black Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hughie & Selma Black Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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