Skip to content

Washington, D.C. · Private foundation

Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
142
Grants FY2024
122
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$864,416
Organizations funded a year
116 to 142
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
20
Total assets, FY2024
$28M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $818k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving130$5.3M30%
FY2023122$5.5M25%
FY2022127$6.0M44%
FY2021116$4.4M41%
FY2020142$4.1M43%
FY2019119$4.4Mn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Public Benefit$10MHealth$6.2MEducation$4.5MArts & Culture$3.3MPhilanthropy$1.7MInternational$1.3MCivil Rights$1.3MHuman Services$617kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
KY
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 254 grantees
All grantees of Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Barack Obama Foundation$5,405,79231%
Johns Hopkins University$1,872,24060%
Civic Nation$1,856,69835%
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc$1,497,52031%
Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation$920,00023%
Commission on Presidential Debates$920,000417%
When We All Vote$900,00029%
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs$785,92360%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$570,10060%
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc$482,00060%
Children's National$476,60730%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$450,00040%
Children's Hospital Foundation$361,44530%
National Gallery of Art$345,00060%
Bill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation$300,62060%
MedGlobal Inc$295,00031%
American Friends of the Louvre Inc$274,99962%
Albertine Foundation$235,00032%
Washington Office on Latin America$225,00053%
Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris Inc$211,19252%
I Am Als$201,14419%
Inclusion Zone$184,000325%
Freedom House$170,00050%
New Jewish Narrative Inc$170,00036%
Friends of Cancer Research$155,00061%
Sasha Bruce Youthwork Inc$150,00060%
Yale University$150,0002n/a
The Children's Hospital Foundation Inc$146,94821%
Georgetown University$136,86720%
Greater DC Diaper Bank$121,50061%
The George Washington University$116,14430%
Medstar Health Inc$105,36910%
The Roosevelt Institute$105,00040%
District of Columbia Public Library Foundation Inc$105,00028%
Yahad- in Unum Mid-America$100,00048%
Marist University$100,00010%
Americans for Oxford Inc$100,00010%
Utmd Anderson$100,0001n/a
Washington Drama Society Inc$100,00060%
National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund$95,00060%
Challenged Athletes Inc$90,00060%
Smithsonian Institution$85,00040%
University of Chicago$80,27240%
Diaspora Arts Connection Inc$80,00065%
The Phillips Collection$80,00060%
Ten Thousand Villages$79,50021%
Edward M Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate Inc$70,35321%
Landon School$70,00060%
The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc$70,00060%
Martha's Table Inc$65,00060%
Children's Defense Fund$65,00040%
Pcd Ks Foundation$60,00061%
Lobular Breast Cancer Alliance Inc$60,00035%
Sidwell Friends School$56,5006n/a
The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth$55,00060%
Temple Sinai$55,0005n/a
Brem Foundation to Defeat Breast Cancer$50,00032%
Worldwide Friends Foundation Inc$50,0001n/a
Yale University$50,0001n/a
Institute for Policy Studies$50,00030%
Equal Justice Works$50,00030%
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation$50,00010%
Yale University$50,0001n/a
The Museum of Language Arts Inc$50,00020%
Freshfarm Markets$49,00060%
IVote Civic Education Fund Inc$47,00011%
Joseph Robert Shaw Foundation Inc$45,00064%
The Studio Theatre Inc$45,00060%
The Matthew Harris Ornstein Memorial Foundation Inc$45,000310%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$45,00030%
National Center for Jewish Filminc$45,000310%
Bread for the City Inc$45,00060%
Alliance for Justice$45,00030%
Cityschools Collaborative$42,50060%
Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation Inc$38,98610%
J Street Education Fund Inc$35,00030%
American Friends of the Musee Dorsay$33,50041%
Usagainstalzheimer's$30,00060%
Friendship Place$30,00050%
Hope for Children Inc$30,000122%
Jewish Foundation for Group Homes Inc$30,00060%
The Lieber Institute Inc$30,00040%
Center for Arms Control and$30,00051%
Face the Future Foundation$25,000111%
No Stomach for Cancer Inc$25,00062%
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn$25,00010%
National Endowment for Democracy$25,00010%
American Society of International Law$25,00011%
Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) Society$25,00032%
Central American Resource Center$25,00010%
Opensecrets$22,00030%
Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation$21,00040%
Syrian Community Network$20,00031%
Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation$20,00020%
Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc$20,00020%
Angels for Change Inc$20,00015%
Catalytic Impact Foundation Inc$20,00012%
The Saint Joseph Foundation$20,00017%
Just Detention International$20,00020%
Hamilton Partnership for Paterson Inc$20,00041%
Mi Familia En Accion$20,00010%
The Voter Participation Center$20,00010%
Dignitas Ukraine Inc$17,00021%
Reproductive Freedom for All$15,00030%
Lookingglass Theatre Company$15,00020%
Center for Political Accountability$15,00021%
Homeless Children's Playtime Project$15,00021%
Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens$15,00060%
Reading Partners$15,00010%
The University of Tulsa$15,00010%
School of Leadership-Afghanistan Inc$15,00020%
Woodley Housing Corporation$15,00034%
The Gridiron Club and Foundation$15,00022%
National Center for Health Research Inc$12,50051%
American Pediatric Surgical Association Foundation Inc$12,50033%
Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation$12,50030%
New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation$12,0001n/a
Los Angeles General Medical Center Foundation Inc$12,00010%
The Brooklyn Hospital Foundation Inc$12,00010%
Americans for Democratic Action Education$11,0001n/a
DC Affordable Law Firm$11,00020%
Knock Out Abuse$11,00020%
The Defiant Requiem Foundation$10,50021%
Woodland Normanstone Neighborhood Association$10,5006n/a
New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc$10,27310%
John Eaton Home and School Association$10,20414%
International Medical Corps$10,00010%
Women in Film & Video Inc$10,00011%
Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc$10,00010%
Van Ness Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization$10,000136%
American Friends of Yahad - in Unum Inc$10,00010%
Forging Opportunities for Refugees in America Inc Nfp$10,00011%
School Justice Project Inc$10,00021%
Kind Inc$10,00010%
Rock Creek Conservancy Inc$10,00010%
AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition Inc$10,00010%
Washington Nationals Philanthropies$10,00010%
Koolen-De Vries Syndrome Foundation$10,00042%
The Trustees of Princeton University$10,00010%
Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International$10,00011%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$10,00010%
Naturopaths Without Borders$10,000117%
Hope for Children Fund Inc$10,0001n/a
Jewish Global Network$10,00010%
Signature Theatre Inc$10,00030%
DTCare$10,00010%
Association for Academic Surgery Foundation$10,00024%
The First Tee of Chicago Foundation$9,00040%
Survivors Empowered Inc$8,00032%
The Shakespeare Theatre$8,00010%
National Center for Youth Law$8,00040%
Vera Institute of Justice Inc$8,00010%
Lucky Dog Animal Rescue$8,00060%
Asian University for Women (Auw) Support Foundation$8,00010%
Friends of Fondation de France Inc$8,00010%
National Children Museum$7,75030%
The American Hospital of Paris Foundation$7,50010%
Center for US Global Leadership$7,00010%
Chicago Parks Foundation$6,50010%
It Takes Philly$6,04010%
Syrian American Medical Society Foundation$6,00020%
Equal Justice Initiative$6,00020%
Girl Scouts of Central Maryland Inc$5,50040%
Navajo Tribal Utility Authority$5,0001n/a
Miriam's Kitchen$5,00010%
National Brain Tumor Society Inc$5,00010%
West Jefferson Hospital Foundation$5,00013%
EmpowerK12 Inc$5,00010%
Ana Care and Education Uyghur Programs$5,00013%
American Friends of the Centre Pompidou Inc$5,00010%
Save The Children Federation Inc$5,00010%
Uyghur Human Rights Project$5,00011%
Center City Public Charter Schools$5,00010%
Martin Luther King Jr Community Health Foundation$5,00010%
Uyghur American Association$5,00017%
The Hopi Foundation Lomasumi'Nangwtukwsiwmani$5,00010%
The Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights$5,00010%
Working America Education Fund$5,00010%
Save Venice Inc$5,00010%
City Teaching Alliance Inc$5,00010%
Chicago Sun-Times Media Inc$5,00010%
Women's Refugee Commission Inc$5,00010%
American Camping Association Inc$5,00010%
Montefiore Medical Center$5,00010%
Bender Jcc of Greater Washington$5,00010%
The New York Center for Children$5,00011%
Rescue Now$5,00011%
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc$5,00010%
Trustees for Harvard University$5,00010%
Tregaron Conservancy$4,50030%
Ochsner Clinic Foundation$4,00010%
Association for Indias Development Inc$4,00010%
The Family Foundation of Virginia$4,00030%
Francis on the Hill in Washington DC Onl$4,00010%
Hephzibah Children's Association$4,00020%
CharityVision International$4,00010%
Conservation Nation$3,50020%
Emmanuel Hospital Association$3,00011%
Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Health Foundation$3,00010%
The Bellin Health Foundation Inc$3,00010%
United Help Ukraine Inc$3,00020%
Mikva Challenge Grant Foundation$3,00010%
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism$3,0001n/a
The Outkast Academy Inc$2,50012%
Neighborhood House Assn$2,50010%
Georgetown Day School$2,50010%
Kitchens for Good$2,50010%
Reading Is Fundamental Inc$2,50010%
Agua Hedionda Lagoon Foundation$2,50010%
The Children's Law Center$2,50010%
Dc Food Project$2,00011%
University of California San Francisco$2,0001n/a
Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc$2,00010%
Jackson Health Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Communities in Schools$2,00010%
Tennessee Justice Center Inc$2,00010%
Firelight Theatre Workshop$2,00021%
We Care Inc$2,00011%
Nova Ukraine$2,00010%
Revived Soldiers Ukraine$2,00010%
National Cmv Foundation Inc$2,00011%
Oak Park Area Arts Council$2,00010%
Airlink Inc$2,00010%
The Howard University$1,50010%
Anti-Defamation League$1,00010%
Mississippi Center for Justice$1,00010%
American Friends of the National Portrait Gallery (London) Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Family Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Touro Infirmary$1,00010%
The Phoebe Foundation$1,0001n/a
Donorschooseorg$1,00010%
Path$1,00010%
Historic Royal Palaces Inc$1,00011%
Colgate University$1,00010%
American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin$1,00010%
Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc$1,00010%
Hope Rescue Mission of the City of Reading$1,00010%
Voiceup Berks$1,0001n/a
Greater Washington Urban League Inc$1,00010%
Emmett Till Legacy Foundation$1,0001n/a
Palm Beach County Fishing Foundation Inc$1,00010%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$1,00010%
Greenlight Family Services$1,00010%
French-American Piano Inc$1,0001n/a
Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation$1,00010%
Americares Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Syrian Emergency Task Force$1,00010%
Haymakers for Hope Inc$7501n/a
Louisiana Center for Children's Rights$50010%
Vanderbilt University$50010%
Muskegon Museum of Art Foundation$50010%
Children's Hospital Corporation$50010%
Lafayette Home and School Association of$25010%
New Orleans Emergency Medical Services Foundation Inc$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 99 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Barack Obama Foundation: $5,405,792 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $1,872,240 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCivic Nation: $1,856,698 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetGreater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc: $1,497,520 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSibley Memorial Hospital Foundation: $920,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCommission on Presidential Debates: $920,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetWhen We All Vote: $900,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetNational Democratic Institute for International Affairs: $785,923 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc: $570,100 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $482,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's National: $476,607 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $450,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Foundation: $361,445 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $345,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation: $300,620 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMedGlobal Inc: $295,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Louvre Inc: $274,999 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetAlbertine Foundation: $235,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetWashington Office on Latin America: $225,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetFriends of Notre-Dame de Paris Inc: $211,192 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetI Am Als: $201,144 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetInclusion Zone: $184,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetFreedom House: $170,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNew Jewish Narrative Inc: $170,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetFriends of Cancer Research: $155,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSasha Bruce Youthwork Inc: $150,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe Children's Hospital Foundation Inc: $146,948 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGeorgetown University: $136,867 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater DC Diaper Bank: $121,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $116,144 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMedstar Health Inc: $105,369 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Roosevelt Institute: $105,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDistrict of Columbia Public Library Foundation Inc: $105,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetYahad- in Unum Mid-America: $100,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetMarist University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmericans for Oxford Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWashington Drama Society Inc: $100,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNational Breast Cancer Coalition Fund: $95,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetChallenged Athletes Inc: $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $80,272 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDiaspora Arts Connection Inc: $80,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetThe Phillips Collection: $80,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTen Thousand Villages: $79,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEdward M Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate Inc: $70,353 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLandon School: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc: $70,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMartha's Table Inc: $65,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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 Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC34.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc · Open Society Institute · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · The Dorothy G Bender Foundation Inc · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · Spectemur Agendo 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.

Compare Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation with peer funders

About Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation

How much does Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation give?
Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation reported 142 grants totaling $5,301,881 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 116 and 142 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (33%), Health (20%), Education (15%).
Who are Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Barack Obama Foundation ($5.4M), Johns Hopkins University ($1.9M), Civic Nation ($1.9M).
Does Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc.
Where is Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation based?
Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation is based in DC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 367 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Judy and Peter Blum Kovler’s filings →

More from the funding graph