Delaware · Private foundation
Jennifer and Jonathan Blum 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.
- $293k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $62,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 14
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Jennifer and Jonathan Blum Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $293k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $199k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $289k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $196k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $220k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $174k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $139k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martha's Vineyard Museum Inc | $304,158 | 7 | 2% |
| Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc | $287,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Vineyard Conservation Society Inc | $185,000 | 7 | 4% |
| The National Film Preserve Ltd | $150,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Sheriff's Meadow Foundation | $116,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc | $105,000 | 4 | 2% |
| SANCTUARY AT HOMESTEAD aka Cincinnati Arsenal Gaming | $80,000 | 4 | 60% |
| Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc | $67,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Mv Youth Inc | $46,623 | 5 | 1% |
| Island Health Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martha's Vineyard Museum Inc | $304,158 | 7 | 2% |
| Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc | $287,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Vineyard Conservation Society Inc | $185,000 | 7 | 4% |
| The National Film Preserve Ltd | $150,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Sheriff's Meadow Foundation | $116,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc | $105,000 | 4 | 2% |
| SANCTUARY AT HOMESTEAD aka Cincinnati Arsenal Gaming | $80,000 | 4 | 60% |
| Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc | $67,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Mv Youth Inc | $46,623 | 5 | 1% |
| Island Health Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Island Grown Initiative Ltd | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of California Santa Barbara | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Uc Santa Barbara Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New England Life Flight Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Boniface Haiti Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Antique Scrimshaw Collectors Association Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Misty Meadows Equine Learning Center Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Dare to Care Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jennifer and Jonathan Blum Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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.
Open a dossier: Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · South Mountain Company Foundation · Healey Family Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Dickinson Family Foundation Inc · The Stanton Family Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc · The Eberstadt-Kuffner Fund Inc · Glff Inc · Tower Family Fund Inc
How this is measured
Compare Jennifer and Jonathan Blum Foundation with peer funders
About Jennifer and Jonathan Blum Foundation
- How much does Jennifer and Jonathan Blum Foundation give?
- Jennifer and Jonathan Blum Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $292,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Jennifer and Jonathan Blum Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (43%), Youth Development (22%), Environment (21%).
- Who are Jennifer and Jonathan Blum Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Martha's Vineyard Museum Inc ($304k), Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc ($288k), Vineyard Conservation Society Inc ($185k).
- Does Jennifer and Jonathan Blum Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jennifer and Jonathan Blum Foundation 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 Jennifer and Jonathan Blum Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is Jennifer and Jonathan Blum Foundation based?
- Jennifer and Jonathan Blum Foundation is based in DE.
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