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Matthew T Blackwood Foundation Trust

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.

$39k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
14
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$750
Largest grant, FY2023
$13,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 16
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Matthew T Blackwood Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY202314$39k0%
FY202215$43k0%
FY202114$40k0%
FY202014$39k0%
FY201916$33kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Health$62kCommunity Improvement$42kArts & Culture$36kHuman Services$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kEnvironment$5kAnimals$5kPhilanthropy$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Deltaville Community Association Inc$41,75058%
The Colonial Seaport Foundation$4,85054%
Hartfield Volunteer Fire Department Inc$4,00050%
Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association Inc$85010%

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($143k), not named here.

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 Community Foundat…The Revere Family Fou…
The Community Foundation IncVA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · The Revere Family 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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Find your warmest path to Matthew T Blackwood Foundation Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Matthew T Blackwood Foundation Trust

How much does Matthew T Blackwood Foundation Trust give?
Matthew T Blackwood Foundation Trust reported 14 grants totaling $39,050 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 16 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Matthew T Blackwood Foundation Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (32%), Community Improvement (22%), Arts & Culture (19%).
Who are Matthew T Blackwood Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: Deltaville Community Association Inc ($42k), The Colonial Seaport Foundation ($5k), Hartfield Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($4k).
Does Matthew T Blackwood Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Matthew T Blackwood Foundation Trust 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 Matthew T Blackwood Foundation Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, The Revere Family Foundation.
Where is Matthew T Blackwood Foundation Trust based?
Matthew T Blackwood Foundation Trust is based in VA.

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 16 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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