· Private foundation
Jacob Bluestein 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Jacob Bluestein Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Jacob Bluestein Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $82k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2023
- Under $10k18 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $20,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $4,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $3,000 |
| WNET 13 | $1,500 |
| OCEAN CONSERVANCY | $1,500 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $1,000 |
| AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| COALITION FOR HOMELESS | $1,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NYC | $1,000 |
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND | $1,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2023, 25 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC7× · 2017–2023 · $180k · revenue +81%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC7× · 2017–2023 · $160k · revenue +98%- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE5× · 2019–2023 · $54k · revenue +47%
Funded once
THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +64%- AADLone grant, 2017 · $5k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLUMBIA OPTHAMOLOGYone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
Wmf is the leading independent organization devoted to safeguarding the world's most treasured places to enrich people's lives and build mutual understanding across cultures and communities. the organization is headquartered in new york…
We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
How this is measured
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 63 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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jacob Bluestein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jacob Bluestein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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