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Jean and David Blechman 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.

$135k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$54k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Philanthropy$171kHealth$56kArts & Culture$45kRecreation & Sports$8kReligion$1kCivil Rights$500Human Services$200International$200
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $81k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
$27,066
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Stony Brook Foundation$54,132
Lubavitch of the East End$27,066
Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County$27,066
Child Mind Institute$27,066
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 46% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK: $500 → 14%Lubavitch of the East End: $27k → 7%Game Over Hicks Family Foundation: $8k → 13%MY FACE: $500 → 17%Stony Brook Foundation: $54k → 9%HOSPICE BY THE SEA: $500 → 11%JAFCO: $400 → 13%BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE: $200 → 15%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $500 → 14%Lubavitch of the East End: $18k → 7%AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS: $200 → 17%Stony Brook Foundation: $53k → 9%Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County: $27k → 11%WOMEN'S DIV JEWISH FEDERATION: $10k → 13%Child Mind Institute: $27k → 17%Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County: $27k → 11%Child Mind Institute: $20k → 17%B'NAI ISRAEL REFORM TEMPLE: $1k → 11%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $200 → 17%SALVATION ARMY: $200 → 11%National Multiple Sclerosis Society: $6k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$199k · 3 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +163% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
16

Total granted

$199k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+163%
0%

Still filing today

67%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’23’24
HealthYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

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

  • SB
    STONY BROOK FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $107k · revenue +163%
  • CM
    CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $47k · revenue -10%
  • LO
    LUBAVITCH OF THE EAST END INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $45k

Funded once

  • WD
    WOMEN'S DIV JEWISH FEDERATION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • TG
    THE GAME OVER HICKS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +8%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
2
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
3
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
4
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
5
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

The foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with parkinson's today.

Health
6
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
9
National Scleroderma Foundation Inc

The national scleroderma foundation's mission is to advance medical research, promote disease awareness, and provide support and education to people with scleroderma, their families and support networks.

Health
10
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

11
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
12
Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stony Brook Foundation. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STONY BROOK FOUNDATION — $106,940 · OtherSTONY BROOK FOUNDATIONLUBAVITCH OF THE EAST END INC — $45,066 · OtherLUBAVITCH OF THE EAST END INCWOMEN'S DIV JEWISH FEDERATION — $10,000 · OtherWOMEN'S DIV JEWISH FEDERATION+10 more — $3,900 · OtherCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $47,066 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE …NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $6,404 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCL…+2 more — $1,000 · HealthJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $53,566 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF …THE GAME OVER HICKS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $8,400 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS INC — $200 · International
Other$165,906Health$54,470Philanthropy$53,566Youth Development$8,400International$200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $53,566 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $47,066 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $6,404 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice by the Sea Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Jean and David Blechman 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Jean and David Blechman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jean and David Blechman 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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