Ohio · Private foundation
Paul and Dina W Block 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.
- $172k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Paul and Dina W Block Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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 | 14 | $172k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $144k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $136k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $180k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $148k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $130k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pittsburgh Glass Center Inc | $169,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Literacy Pittsburgh | $141,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Center for Christian Virtue | $45,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Riverbend Equine Therapy | $40,000 | 2 | 8% |
| The Kensico Cemetery | $34,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jeremiah's Place Pittsburgh Relief Nursery | $30,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo | $22,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mississippi State University | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Neighborhood Academy | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Island Heritage Trust Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($213k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Paul and Dina W Block 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: The Heinz Endowments · Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · The Burke Foundation · The Burke Family Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · The Fine Foundation · The O-I Charities Foundation
How this is measured
About Paul and Dina W Block Foundation
- How much does Paul and Dina W Block Foundation give?
- Paul and Dina W Block Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $172,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Paul and Dina W Block Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (33%), Education (24%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Paul and Dina W Block Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Pittsburgh Glass Center Inc ($169k), Literacy Pittsburgh ($141k), Center for Christian Virtue ($45k).
- Does Paul and Dina W Block Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Paul and Dina W Block 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 Paul and Dina W Block Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Heinz Endowments, Hillman Family Foundations, The Pittsburgh Foundation.
- Where is Paul and Dina W Block Foundation based?
- Paul and Dina W Block Foundation is based in OH.
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