New York · Private foundation
Nancy & Robert S Blank Foundation
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.
- $414k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $201,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Nancy & Robert S Blank Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $414k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $134k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $138k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $104k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $99k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $132k | 37% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $100k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $138k | 54% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theatre Aspen | $388,999 | 8 | 2% |
| The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology | $133,334 | 3 | 0% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $80,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Music Associates of Aspen Inc | $62,500 | 7 | 0% |
| America Needs You | $40,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York | $36,900 | 9 | n/a |
| Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rodeph Shalom Congregation | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $18,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $17,000 | 8 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($444k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nancy & Robert S Blank Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Nancy & Robert S Blank Foundation
- How much does Nancy & Robert S Blank Foundation give?
- Nancy & Robert S Blank Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $413,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Nancy & Robert S Blank Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (42%), Arts & Culture (32%), Education (10%).
- Who are Nancy & Robert S Blank Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Theatre Aspen ($389k), The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology ($133k), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ($80k).
- Does Nancy & Robert S Blank Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nancy & Robert S Blank 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 Nancy & Robert S Blank Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Nancy & Robert S Blank Foundation based?
- Nancy & Robert S Blank Foundation is based in NY.
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