· Private foundation
MICHAEL D AND JOLYNN BLAIR FAMILY FOUNDATION co JANUS & ASSOC
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $234k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION | $181,931 |
| BRIGHTPOINT | $52,000 |
| ALTERNATIVES FOR BETTER LIVING | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NAPA VALLEY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
14 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
LAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $310k · revenue +2%- GGGROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY7× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +155%
- APAlbany Park Theater Project6× · 2017–2023 · $186k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -40%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
With the support of our community, we provide over 90 million meals annually through our network of over 900 member food pantries and programs across thirteen counties, currently reaching over a half million individuals each month with…
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The hunger coalition builds a healthy community through access to good food and addresses the root causes of food insecurity in collaboration with key partners.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Hunger free america (hfa) is a nonpartisan, national nonprofit organization building the movement to enact the policies and programs needed to end domestic hunger and ensure that all americans have sufficient access to nutritious food.
The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.
We are a global movement working to end child hunger in the u.s. and around the world. together with communities, we provide food, essentials, and opportunities so every child can survive and thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Care for Real and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 33 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
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 YERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Albany Park Theater Project ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
- Who funds LIGHT UP HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NIMBUS ARTS ↗
- Who funds Piven Theatre Workshop ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR BETTER LIVING ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CARE FOR REAL ↗
- Who funds HAITI OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF NAPA INC BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NAPA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds WALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
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 Chicago Community Trust · Kunes Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 MICHAEL D AND JOLYNN BLAIR FAMILY FOUNDATION co JANUS & ASSOC 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.
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.