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.

John N Blackman Sr Foundation

John N Blackman Sr Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

John N Blackman Sr Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$175k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$11k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$554kArts & Culture$478kHuman Services$263kFood & Nutrition$207kEducation$194kHousing & Shelter$140kCrime & Legal$112kRecreation & Sports$102kOther$0

02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k40 grants · $164k
$10k–50k1 grant · $11k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$525k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
WE CARE BLANKETS	$5,000
ARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CTR	$5,000
BROOKLYN BALLET INC	$5,000
LIVESTRONG FOUNDATION	$5,000
SMILES FOR SCOTT FOUNDATION	$5,000
PAVE PLANNING AND VISUAL ED	$5,000
HOLY APOSTLES SOUP KITCHEN	$5,000
JACK RICE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP	$5,000
LIPSTICK ANGELS	$5,000
THE MARC S ZEPLIN FOUNDATION	$5,000
THE SAFE CENTER LI	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.3M · 82 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+71%

Still filing today

71%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyFood & NutritionEducationRecreation & SportsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

KJ
KWELI JOURNAL INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +60%
FS
FRIDAY SOUP KITCHEN NYC INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $67k · revenue +43% · 34% of their budget
TS
THE SMILES FOR SCOTT FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +5% · 60% of their budget

Funded once

AB
AMERICAN BALLROOM THEATER COMPANY
one grant, 2018 · $8k
CH
CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +39%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $3k

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Do for One Nyc

To serve people with developmental disabilities

Human Services

Families Together in New York State Inc

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.

Human Services

City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture

Alternatives for Children

To provide quality programs for young children with special needs.

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New York City Center Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

The Child Study Center of New York

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.

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Children in Conflict Inc

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.

Human Services

Children's Tumor Foundation

Our mission: drive research, expand knowledge, and advance care for the nf community. our vision: end nf.

Health

Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York Inc

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…

Human Services

The Center for New York City Neighborhoods Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter

Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

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.

Community Improvement

The Way Back Inc

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…

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Oliver Scholars Program Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

62/64

Grantees still filing

53/64

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,255,850Human Services$333,800Arts & Culture$322,000Philanthropy$210,000Food & Nutrition$90,000Education$87,000Recreation & Sports$75,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ33.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John N Blackman Sr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John N Blackman Sr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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