Virginia · Private foundation
Our Blessed Mother
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.
- $55k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Our Blessed Mother funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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 | 2 | $55k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $71k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $38k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $47k | 71% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $11k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $12k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $25k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $51k | 67% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christ Reaching Out Witness Now | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $18,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $8,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Menlo School | $7,500 | 4 | 0% |
| St Marys Church | $6,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Avenidas | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chaldean Federation of America | $4,800 | 1 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christ Reaching Out Witness Now | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $18,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $8,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Menlo School | $7,500 | 4 | 0% |
| St Marys Church | $6,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Avenidas | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chaldean Federation of America | $4,800 | 1 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Raymond School | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Marin Humane Society | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hypopara Research Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Church of the Nativity | $1,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Special Olympics Inc | $1,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Camino School Parent Teacher Org | $1,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Armenia Fund Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Police Association Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Saints Peter and Paul Church | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West Bay Opera Association Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $250 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($185k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Our Blessed Mother 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Our Blessed Mother
- How much does Our Blessed Mother give?
- Our Blessed Mother reported 2 grants totaling $54,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Our Blessed Mother fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (36%), Education (30%), Health (10%).
- Who are Our Blessed Mother's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Christ Reaching Out Witness Now ($50k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($18k), Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($10k).
- Does Our Blessed Mother fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Our Blessed Mother 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 Our Blessed Mother?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, American Endowment Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Our Blessed Mother based?
- Our Blessed Mother is based in VA.
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