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Louise B Blackman Family Foundation at a glance

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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
11
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2023.

Health$780kInternational$469kPhilanthropy$419kEnvironment$259kEducation$217kFood & Nutrition$163kHuman Services$158kHousing & Shelter$152kOther$0
02FY2023 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k14 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $257k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
John N Blackman Sr Foundation$50,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering$50,000
Person to Person$25,000
Doctors Without Borders$22,500
American Red Cross$20,000
Save the Children$12,500
Planned Parenthood of Southern NE$12,500
Fisher House Foundation$12,000
Trustees of Hamilton College$12,000
Wilderness Society$10,000
Americares Free Clinic$10,000
Oxfam America$10,000
ACLU Foundation of Connecticut$10,000
Norwalk Community College Foundation$10,000
Amnesty International USA$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%American Red Cross: $20k → 14%American National Red Cross: $18k → 14%American Red Cross: $13k → 14%American Red Cross: $13k → 14%American Red Cross: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 41 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
10

Total granted

$2.8M
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+10%

Still filing today

63%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalEnvironmentHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $153k · revenue +98%
  • JN
    JOHN N BLACKMAN SR FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +5% · 41% of their budget
  • PT
    PERSON TO PERSON INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $123k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • PP
    Planned Parenthood of Connecticut
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
  • PP
    Planned Parenthood of Sourthern NE
    one grant, 2018 · $13k
  • AF
    ACLU Foumdation of Connecticut
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
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.

1
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
4
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
5
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
6
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
7
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
8
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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9
National Save the Family Farm Coalition

National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) unites and strengthens the voices and actions of its diverse grassroots members to demand viable livelihoods for family farmers, safe and healthy food for everyone, and economically and environmentally…

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10
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
11
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
12
The Humane League

We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is John N Blackman Sr Foundation. 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

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 54 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
29/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Memorial Sloan Kettering CC: $400,000 · OtherMemorial Sloan Kettering CCMemorial Sloan Kettering: $225,000 · OtherMemorial Sloan KetteringJOHN N BLACKMAN SR FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherJOHN N BLACKMAN SR FOUNDATIONCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $77,500 · OtherDAV Charitable Service Trust: $77,500 · OtherThe Nature Conservancy in CT: $70,000 · OtherAmnesty International USA: $70,000 · OtherPET ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT INC: $61,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $70,000 · Other+25 more: $593,000 · Other+25 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $152,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRO…OXFAM-AMERICA INC: $90,500 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INCSave The Children Federation Inc: $65,000 · InternationalSave The Children…FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $52,000 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING …AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $42,500 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDA…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $36,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR A…+1 more: $12,500 · InternationalNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $102,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $77,500 · EducationTrustees of Hamilton College: $37,000 · EducationTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $80,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $70,000 · EnvironmentWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $8,500 · Environment+1 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentPERSON TO PERSON INC: $122,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $115,000 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $62,500 · HealthAMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC: $20,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $13,500 · Health
Other$1,794,000International$451,000Education$217,000Environment$163,500Philanthropy$123,500Human Services$115,000Health$96,000

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

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 budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $37,000 over 6y, 0.0% 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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $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
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.

  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHN N BLACKMAN SR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds PET ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC ↗
  • Who funds EYE OF THE STORM EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗

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 Co…The Pfizer Foundation…Synchrony FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Pacific House Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
  • The Community Fund of Darien: 9% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report 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.

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home