New York · Private foundation
John N Blackman Sr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $175k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 71
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 66 to 73
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $525k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations John N Blackman Sr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 41 | $175k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 71 | $346k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 73 | $346k | 1% |
| FY2022 | 70 | $281k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 68 | $277k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 67 | $235k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 66 | $238k | 2% |
| FY2018 | 67 | $234k | 6% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Livestrong Foundation | $85,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Kweli Journal Inc | $79,000 | 9 | 8% |
| Friday Soup Kitchen NYC Inc | $67,000 | 5 | 34% |
| The Smiles for Scott Foundation Inc | $65,000 | 9 | 60% |
| Dancing Dreams | $55,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Ballet Tech Foundation Inc | $44,000 | 9 | 0% |
| We Care Blankets | $41,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Dancing Classrooms Inc | $40,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Brooklyn Balletinc | $38,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Perdev Perceptual Development Center Inc | $36,000 | 9 | 10% |
Show all 67 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($495k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John N Blackman Sr Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · American Express Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · Pinkerton Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Altman Foundation · Eugene M Lang Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About John N Blackman Sr Foundation
- How much does John N Blackman Sr Foundation give?
- John N Blackman Sr Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $174,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 66 and 73 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does John N Blackman Sr Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Arts & Culture (20%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are John N Blackman Sr Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Livestrong Foundation ($85k), Kweli Journal Inc ($79k), Friday Soup Kitchen NYC Inc ($67k).
- Does John N Blackman Sr Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John N Blackman Sr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John N Blackman Sr Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, The New York Community Trust, American Express Foundation.
- Where is John N Blackman Sr Foundation based?
- John N Blackman Sr Foundation is based in NY.
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