· Private foundation
Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k56 grants · $198k
- $10k–50k62 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k20 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CIVIC NATION | $864,416 |
| WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION | $490,780 |
| Individual grant recipient | $294,510 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $260,000 |
| WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION | $247,561 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $210,000 |
| CIVIC NATION | $194,360 |
| NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE | $145,080 |
| SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $120,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE | $115,000 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK-PANCAN | $100,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH | $100,000 |
| ALBERTINE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE | $96,005 |
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 (FY19–24, $823k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
150 repeat relationships — 91 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $315k 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
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $5.4M · revenue +31%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +25%
Civic Nation3× · 2021–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +9%
Funded once
- IAI AM ALSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $201k · revenue +77%
- MHMEDSTAR HEALTH INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $105k · revenue +54%
- MUMARIST UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +19%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Matthew Harris Ornstein Memorial Foundation 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
253 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. 253 of the 367 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Civic Nation ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION ON PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES ↗
- Who funds WHEN WE ALL VOTE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MedGlobal Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC ↗
- Who funds Albertine Foundation ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON OFFICE ON LATIN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC ↗
- Who funds I AM ALS ↗
- Who funds Inclusion Zone ↗
- Who funds NEW JEWISH NARRATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Friends of Cancer Research ↗
- Who funds SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREATER DC DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
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 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
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 Judy and Peter Blum Kovler 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.
- Rock Creek Conservancy Inc — 60% of income from government
- The Lieber Institute Inc — 31% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Medstar Health Inc — 23% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Hamilton Partnership for Paterson Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- National Center for Jewish Filminc — 4% of income from government
- Bender Jcc of Greater Washington — 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc — 0% 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.