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.

Richard and Mary Blume Foundation

Richard and Mary Blume Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Richard and Mary Blume Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$3k

Largest

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.

Arts & Culture$29kEnvironment$28kHealth$22kFood & Nutrition$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kEducation$3kHuman Services$2kCivil Rights$2kOther$0

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500

Median grant

States reached

$4k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF SW FLORIDA	$3,000
WGCU PUBLIC MEDIA	$2,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$2,500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$1,056
FEEDING AMERICA	$1,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC	$500
DAVID LAWRENCE CENTER	$500
THE ARC OCEAN COUNTY	$201
PROPUBLICA	$200
THE ROB PURSLEY FOUNDATION	$200
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER	$103
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE	$103
ACLU FOUNDATION	$100
WIKIPEDIA	$30

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$97k · 19 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$97k

$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%

+111%

Still filing today

58%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCivil RightsFood & NutritionEducationCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther

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

THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
8× · 2018–2025 · $27k · revenue +201%
FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +5%
Feeding America
6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +40%

Funded once

FT
Fun Time Early Childhood Academy Incgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +221%
AO
ARC OF NORTHERN VA
one grant, 2019 · $500
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DIRECTRELIEFORG
one grant, 2024 · $307

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.

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

Equality Florida Institute Inc

Equality florida institute is the educational arm of the largest civil rights organization in florida dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Civil Rights

Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

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Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International

The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy

Kids in Need Foundation

We believe every child in america should have equal opportunity and resources to engage in a quality education. by partnering with teachers and students in under-resourced schools, we provide the support needed to create equitable learning…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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

17 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. 17 of the 29 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/17

Grantees still filing

16/17

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$64,307Education$19,255Food & Nutrition$9,000International$4,112Human Services$1,600Civil Rights$1,520Arts & Culture$960

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Richard and Mary Blume Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard and Mary Blume Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home