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Rene Bloch Foundation at a glance

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Rene Bloch Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$57k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$90kArts & Culture$69kPhilanthropy$35kEducation$33kHuman Services$24kFood & Nutrition$23kRecreation & Sports$23kReligion$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$923k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON$10,000
GREATER WASHINGTON COALITION FOR JEWISH$5,500
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$4,000
INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY OF THE ORANGES$3,000
WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FUND INC$3,000
TONIS KITCHEN$3,000
NEW MILFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$2,500
YOUTH OPPORTUNITY UNITED INC$2,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD NEW YORK$2,500
SHARE$2,500
MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN$2,500
JUDY BLACK MEMORIAL PARK$2,000
AFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM INC (ASAP )$2,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$1,500
CARTER BURDEN NETWORK$1,500
02The need
03

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 (FY18–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT: $4k → 9%SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT: $2k → 9%SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT: $2k → 9%SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC: $2k → 9%SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT: $2k → 9%SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC: $2k → 9%SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC: $2k → 9%COVENANT HOUSE: $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

VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
AR
DC
TX
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$337k · 40 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
28

Total granted

$337k
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
-3%

Still filing today

68%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • CO
    CONVERSATIONS ON THE GREENINC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +218%
  • WC
    WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FUND INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +451%
  • SS
    SHARE SELF-HELP FOR WOMEN WITH BREAST OR OVARIAN CANCER INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $15k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • GW
    GREATER WASHINGTON JEWISH COALITION
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • G
    GWCJL
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • CO
    CONVERSATIONS ON THE GREEN COMMON GROUND
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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
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
2
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
3
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…

Arts & Culture
4
Theaterworks Inc

Theaterworks' mission is to share intimate stories that engage all audiences. it creates exceptional contemporary theater that entertains, celebrates new voices, and invites meaningful conversations. its vision is to inspire a more…

Arts & Culture
5
The Connecticut Project Inc

The connecticut project, a 501c3 organization, brings together people, ideas, and resources to build opportunity.

Community Improvement
6
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
7
Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & Northern New Jersey Inc

Goodwill nynj empowers people with disabilities and other barriers to employment to gain independence through the power of work. goodwill nynj provided services to more than 11,087 adults in fiscal year 2025 through all programs.

Employment
8
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
9
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
10
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
11
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
12
Wnet

Wnet is a multi-media public service non-profit that delivers lifelong learning and meaningful experiences to our communities. our content inspires curiosity, encourages action and nurtures dreams.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Greater Washington Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Malala Fund. 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

34 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. 34 of the 69 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
20/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RENE BLOCH FOUNDATION GRANT: $14,500 · OtherRENE BLOCH FOUNDATION GRANTTONIS KITCHEN: $13,500 · OtherTONIS KITCHENPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $11,500 · OtherGREATER WASHINGTON COALITION: $11,500 · OtherBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON: $10,000 · OtherNEW MILFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherYOUTH & OPPORTUNITY UNITED INC: $10,000 · OtherCARTER BURDEN NETWORK INC: $9,500 · OtherJUDY BLACK MEMORIAL PARK: $8,000 · OtherTHE DOE FUND INC: $8,500 · Other+40 more: $131,280 · Other+40 moreNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $20,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE…SHARE SELF-HELP FOR WOMEN WITH BREAST OR OVARIAN CANCER INC: $15,000 · HealthSHARE SELF-HELP F…BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $13,500 · HealthBILL HILLARY & CH…STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING: $9,550 · HealthSTERN CENTER FOR …GREENWOODS COUNSELING & REFERRALS INC: $2,500 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthAFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM INC: $14,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $9,000 · Arts & CultureSHAKESPERIENCE PRODUCTIONS INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureArt Jewelry Forum: $2,750 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureCONVERSATIONS ON THE GREENINC: $20,000 · EducationTHE MALALA FUND: $2,500 · EducationWASHINGTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $1,000 · EducationWASHINGTON COMMUNITY FUND INC: $19,500 · PhilanthropyABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyGREATER WASHINGTON COALITION FOR JEWISH LIFE INC: $16,500 · ReligionSUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $2,000 · Human Services
Other$238,280Health$62,550Arts & Culture$30,250Education$23,500Philanthropy$22,000Religion$16,500Human Services$16,000

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 budgetCONVERSATIONS ON THE GREENINC: $20,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON COMMUNITY FUND INC: $19,500 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COALITION FOR JEWISH LIFE INC: $16,500 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetSHARE SELF-HELP FOR WOMEN WITH BREAST OR OVARIAN CANCER INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH & OPPORTUNITY UNITED INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING: $9,550 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCARTER BURDEN NETWORK INC: $9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGUNN MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET: $6,280 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON PARK FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY OF THE ORANGES: $5,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSHARE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MILFORD COMMUNITY AMBULANCE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHAKESPERIENCE PRODUCTIONS INC: $4,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArt Jewelry Forum: $2,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MALALA FUND: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWOODS COUNSELING & REFERRALS INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY CULINARY SCHOOL OF NW CT LLC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP 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 CONVERSATIONS ON THE GREENINC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COALITION FOR JEWISH LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHARE SELF-HELP FOR WOMEN WITH BREAST OR OVARIAN CANCER INC ↗
  • Who funds AFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH & OPPORTUNITY UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds CARTER BURDEN NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds GUNN MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY OF THE ORANGES ↗
  • Who funds SHARE ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW MILFORD COMMUNITY AMBULANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHAKESPERIENCE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE 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.

Murray & Susan Haber …The Connecticut Commu…The Kestrel FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Wenden FoundationThe Block Grausman Fu…The Big Wood Foundati…Northwest Community B…Connecticut Humanitie…H & L Family Foundati…Sara & Robert Savage …The Perlman Family Fo…
Murray & Susan Haber Charitable FoundationVA26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Murray & Susan Haber Charitable Foundation · The Connecticut Community Foundation · The Kestrel Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Wenden Foundation · The Block Grausman Fund · The Big Wood Foundation · Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · H & L Family Foundation Inc · Sara & Robert Savage Charitable Foundation U/A/D 12-28-2004 · The Perlman Family Foundation Inc

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 Rene Bloch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rene Bloch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Steep Rock Association Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Greenwoods Counseling & Referrals Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Shakesperience Productions Inc: 2% of income from government
  • After School Arts Program Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Susan B Anthony Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Stern Center for Language and Learning: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 69 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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