How much did Jennifer and Jonathan Blum Foundation grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$480kYouth Development$267kEnvironment$242kPhilanthropy$60kHealth$45kScience & Tech$15kFood & Nutrition$13kHuman Services$6kEducation$1kOther$53k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

sheriffs meadow

2020

sheriffs meadow

2021

vineyard museumsheriffs meadow

2022

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2023

hope boxes

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $8k
$10k–50k11 grants · $192k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

SANCTUARY AT HOMESTEAD$30,000
NATIONAL FILM PRESERVE LTD$30,000
VINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC$30,000
MARTHAS VINEYARD MUSEUM INC$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA$15,000
MARTHAS VINEYARD MUSEUM INC$11,500
ISLAND HEALTH INC$10,000
MARTHAS VINEYARD MUSEUM INC$10,000
MARTHAS VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY INC$10,000
MARTHAS VINEYARD PRESERVATION TR INC$10,000
ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD$10,000
MV YOUTH INC$5,000
SHERIFFS MEADOW FOUNDATION$1,500
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY$1,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.1M · 12 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%

+124%

Still filing today

83%

86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

MV
MARTHAS VINEYARD BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INCORPORATED
4× · 2020–2023 · $225k · revenue +271%
MV
MARTHAS VINEYARD MUSEUM INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $197k · revenue +27%
VC
VINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $145k · revenue +2%

Funded once

WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +162%
HE
HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL
one grant, 2023 · $10k
MV
MARTHAS VINEYARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +109%

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.

Martha's Vineyard Agricultural

The society supports the promotion of safe, resilient and sustainable agricultural production, marketing and lifestyle on martha's vineyard.

Recreation & Sports

Martha's Vineyard Donors Collaborative Inc

Expand philanthropy on Marthas Vineyard and support its nonprofit organizations through capacity building and advocacy.

Philanthropy

Martha's Vineyard Fishermen's

Safeguarding martha's vineyard's fishing heritage and future by supporting the island's small-boat owner-operated fishing fleets and their sustainably harvested catch.

Environment

Stillpoint Martha's Vineyard Inc

To create a gathering place for people from all walks of life for educational offerings.

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Island Food Pantry of Martha's

The island food pantry of martha's vineyard, inc.'s mission is to improve and sustain the quality of life in dukes county, massachusetts through the operation of a food pantry to provide temporary food and personal items as needed to…

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V G C Foundation Inc

The purpose of the foundation is to collect and distribute donations for charitable purposes on the island of martha's vineyard.

Philanthropy

Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc

Martha's vineyard playhouse is a professional, non-profit working theater dedicated to inspiring, enriching and entertaining our diverse island community. we believe that theater has the power to transform lives.

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Victoria Mansion

Preserve and maintain the Victoria Mansion

Arts & Culture

Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba

Providing hospice care services.

Human Services

Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting

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Martha's Vineyard Foundation Inc

Provide a temporary home at no cost to serve and sustain families of seriously ill or injured adults and children receiving treatment at pensacola area hospitals.

Health

Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group Inc

To preserve & enhance the shellfish resources of martha's vineyard including the habitat and good water quality they require for the social, economic and ecological well being of the island community.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martha's Vineyard and the most unlike its peers is Sanctuary At Homestead. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/18

Grantees still filing

16/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$479,658Youth Development$266,623Environment$241,500Philanthropy$60,000Other$72,500Health$45,000Science & Tech$15,000

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.

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.

The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY19.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Community · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Slough Farm Foundation · Mv Vision Fellowship Fund · South Mountain Company Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust

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 organisation Jennifer and Jonathan Blum 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

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9get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SANCTUARY AT HOMESTEAD.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 12.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 883976002 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SANCTUARY AT HOMESTEAD, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 60% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Jennifer and Jonathan Blum Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jennifer and Jonathan Blum Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Jennifer and Jonathan Blum Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Jennifer and Jonathan Blum Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Jennifer and Jonathan Blum Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Jennifer and Jonathan Blum Foundation?

More from the funding graph