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Louise B Blackman Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$400k
Granted FY2023
37
Grants FY2023
36
Organizations funded FY2023
3%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
31 to 36
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
11
Total assets, FY2023
$7.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 3% of the organizations Louise B Blackman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEnvironmentCivil RightsAnimalsInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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
FY202336$388k3%
FY202235$395k0%
FY202136$495k8%
FY202034$397k15%
FY201931$398k3%
FY201834$400k26%
FY201733$438kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$780kInternational$469kPhilanthropy$419kEnvironment$259kEducation$217kFood & Nutrition$163kHuman Services$158kHousing & Shelter$152kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CT
KY
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Louise B Blackman Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $152,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJohn N Blackman Sr Foundation: $150,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetPerson to Person Inc: $122,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $115,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNorwalk Community College Foundation Inc: $102,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $90,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wilderness Society: $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: $77,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Foodshare Inc: $77,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Connecticut Inc: $70,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $65,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: $62,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPet Animal Welfare Society of Connecticut Inc: $61,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetInspirica Inc: $57,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $52,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $42,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $41,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPacific House Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNational Military Family Association: $38,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $36,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition for the Homeless Inc: $25,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $25,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmericares Free Clinics Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAlzheimer's Foundation of America Inc: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmnesty International of the USA Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWaterkeeper Alliance Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHarry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClean Ocean Action Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Community Fund of Darien: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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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 30.

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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.

Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Louise B Blackman Family Foundation

How much does Louise B Blackman Family Foundation give?
Louise B Blackman Family Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $400,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Louise B Blackman Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (26%), International (16%), Philanthropy (14%).
Who are Louise B Blackman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($153k), John N Blackman Sr Foundation ($150k), Person to Person Inc ($123k).
Does Louise B Blackman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Louise B Blackman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Louise B Blackman Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Synchrony Foundation.
Where is Louise B Blackman Family Foundation based?
Louise B Blackman Family Foundation is based in FL.

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 54 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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