Florida · Private foundation
Richard and Mary Blume Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $12k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Richard and Mary Blume Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $407 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesCivil RightsInternationalArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $12k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $13k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $13k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $12k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $12k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $14k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $15k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $6k | 75% |
96% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Arts & Culture$29kEnvironment$28kHealth$22kFood & Nutrition$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kEducation$3kHuman Services$2kCivil Rights$2kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
IL
NY
OH
NJ
CA
VA
NC
DC
AL
FL
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Conservancy of Southwest Florida | $27,450 | 8 | 0% |
| Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc | $19,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $8,500 | 6 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $4,112 | 4 | 0% |
| Naples Music Club Inc | $1,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Rob Pursley Foundation | $1,400 | 6 | n/a |
| Fun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc | $1,150 | 1 | 0% |
| Pro Publica Inc | $960 | 7 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $846 | 8 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $808 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Conservancy of Southwest Florida | $27,450 | 8 | 0% |
| Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc | $19,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $8,500 | 6 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $4,112 | 4 | 0% |
| Naples Music Club Inc | $1,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Rob Pursley Foundation | $1,400 | 6 | n/a |
| Fun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc | $1,150 | 1 | 0% |
| Pro Publica Inc | $960 | 7 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $846 | 8 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $808 | 8 | 0% |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $712 | 7 | 0% |
| Freestore Foodbank Inc | $500 | 2 | 0% |
| Guadalupe Center Inc | $450 | 2 | 0% |
| Kind Inc | $105 | 1 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $50 | 1 | 0% |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $5 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($32k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard and Mary Blume Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.
About Richard and Mary Blume Foundation
- How much does Richard and Mary Blume Foundation give?
- Richard and Mary Blume Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $11,993 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Richard and Mary Blume Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Environment (27%), Health (22%).
- Who are Richard and Mary Blume Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Conservancy of Southwest Florida ($27k), Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc ($19k), Feeding America ($9k).
- Does Richard and Mary Blume Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Richard and Mary Blume Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Richard and Mary Blume Foundation based?
- Richard and Mary Blume Foundation is based in FL.
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