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Paul & Else Blum Private Foundation at a glance

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Paul & Else Blum Private Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$65k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$367kArts & Culture$37kHealth$28kCrime & Legal$16kEnvironment$14kYouth Development$11kInternational$7kPhilanthropy$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k35 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$1,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Buffalo Prep$30,000
Nichols School$3,000
Planned Parenthood Buffalo$2,500
Bail Project$1,500
RIP Medical Debt$1,500
Carleton College$1,500
Common Justice$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Journeys End Refugee Services$1,000
Amos Tuck School$1,000
Lehigh University$1,000
The Bowery Mission$1,000
Robin Hood$1,000
Albright Knox Art Gallery$1,000
Last Prisoner Project$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%RIP Medical Debt: $2k → 13%RIP Medical Debt: $2k → 13%RIP Medical Debt: $1k → 13%Seraphic Fire: $500 → 15%Hetrick-Martin Institute: $2k → 17%Hetrick-Martin Institute: $2k → 17%Hetrick-Martin Institute: $2k → 17%Chore Service: $500 → 9%Hetrick-Martin Institute: $1k → 17%Henry Street Settlement: $1k → 17%Henry Street Settlement: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
MN
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
AZ
SC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$493k · 41 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
15

Total granted

$493k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+26%

Still filing today

73%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalInternationalEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BUFFALO PREP INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +49%
  • NS
    NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +48%
  • CC
    CARLETON COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • US
    UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +89%
  • FF
    Future Five
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
5
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
6
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
7
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
10
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…

Education
11
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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12
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uncommon Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 64 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
29/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUFFALO PREP INC: $220,000 · OtherBUFFALO PREP INCPlanned Parenthood Buffalo: $20,000 · OtherPlanned Parenthood Buffalo+31 more: $81,500 · Other+31 moreNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO: $58,000 · EducationNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALOCARLETON COLLEGE: $15,500 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGELEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $8,000 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYPACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE: $7,750 · EducationPACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUT…ROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS: $7,500 · EducationROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HO…Trustees of Tufts College: $6,000 · EducationTHE GO PROJECT INC: $6,000 · Education+6 more: $11,300 · Education+6 moreTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $8,000 · InternationalATLANTIC CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC DBA THE APPRENTICESHOP: $5,000 · InternationalGIRLS EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE INC: $1,000 · InternationalTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2,000 · Human ServicesCHORE SERVICE INC: $500 · Human ServicesSERAPHIC FIRE INC: $500 · Human ServicesTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalLAST PRISONER PROJECT: $4,000 · Crime & LegalLIFE CAMPS INCORPORATED: $1,000 · Crime & LegalAVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC: $500 · Crime & LegalWARREN LAND TRUST INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $3,000 · Environment
Other$321,500Education$120,050Arts & Culture$28,000International$14,000Human Services$12,500Crime & Legal$10,500Environment$8,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBUFFALO PREP INC: $220,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO: $58,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $15,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC: $11,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE: $7,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBuffalo Green Fund Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetTHE GO PROJECT INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWARREN LAND TRUST INC: $5,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC DBA THE APPRENTICESHOP: $5,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAST PRISONER PROJECT: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S PRISON ASSOCIATION AND HOME: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON JUSTICE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUPWARDLY GLOBAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY RUGBY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE CAMPS INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHORE SERVICE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSERAPHIC FIRE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds BUFFALO PREP INC ↗
  • Who funds NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
  • Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC ↗
  • Who funds PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS ↗
  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds Buffalo Green Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE GO PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds WARREN LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTIC CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC DBA THE APPRENTICESHOP ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
  • Who funds LAST PRISONER PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S PRISON ASSOCIATION AND HOME ↗
  • Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMON JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗

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 Ayco Charitable F…Boston Foundation IncThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Robin Hood FoundationNational Philanthropi…American Express Foun…The Thompson Family F…Pinkerton FoundationSelect Equity Group F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Community Foundation …Vanguard Charitable E…
The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY17.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Robin Hood Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Express Foundation · The Thompson Family Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · Select Equity Group Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Paul & Else Blum Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul & Else Blum Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • New World Symphony Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Seraphic Fire Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 64 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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