· Private foundation
John N Blackman Sr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $164k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIDAY SOUP KITCHEN NYC INC | $11,000 |
| KWELI JOURNAL | $8,000 |
| JOHN THEISSEN CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL DANCE DEPARTM | $7,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY | $5,000 |
| PAVE PLANNING AND VISUAL ED | $5,000 |
| LIPSTICK ANGELS | $5,000 |
| JACK RICE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP | $5,000 |
| SMILES FOR SCOTT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LIVESTRONG FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BROOKLYN BALLET INC | $5,000 |
| DANCING DREAMS | $5,000 |
| THE SAFE CENTER LI | $5,000 |
| ARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CTR | $5,000 |
| WE CARE BLANKETS | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $307k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
82 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- KJKWELI JOURNAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +60%
- FSFRIDAY SOUP KITCHEN NYC INC5× · 2021–2025 · $67k · revenue +43% · 34% of their budget
- TSTHE SMILES FOR SCOTT FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +5% · 60% of their budget
Funded once
- ABAMERICAN BALLROOM THEATER COMPANYone grant, 2018 · $8k
- CHCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +39%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To serve people with developmental disabilities
Establish a unified voice for children and youth with emotional, behavioral, and social challenges. the organizational mission is to ensure that every family has access to needed information, support, and services.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
To provide quality programs for young children with special needs.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
To provide a program for children with special needs, ages three to five years by utilizing the disciplines of psychology, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy as integral functions of the educational program.
Vision: a world where no child's life is torn apart by war.children in conflict works tirelessly to restore hope, safety and childhoods to children whose lives are affected by war.
Our mission: drive research, expand knowledge, and advance care for the nf community. our vision: end nf.
The center for independence of the disabled, new york's goal is to ensure full integration, independence and equal opportunity for all people with disabilities by removing barriers to the social, economic, cultural and civic life of the…
Our mission is to promote and protect affordable homeownership in new york so that middle- and working-class families are able to build strong, thriving communities.
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Oliver Scholars Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Perdev Perceptual Development Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
64 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 91 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
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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.
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
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 organization John N Blackman Sr 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc — 49% of income from government
- Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Chai 4EVER Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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