Delaware · Private foundation
Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 75
- Grants FY2024
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 57
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $35M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 54% of the organizations Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $673k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 70 | $1.4M | 46% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $1.6M | 54% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $1.8M | 51% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $1.5M | 67% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Covenant House Alaska | $850,000 | 5 | 2% |
| First Church of Christ Scientist | $797,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Partners for Progress | $330,000 | 2 | 13% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $260,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Volunteers of America Inc | $250,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Anchorage Opera Company | $215,000 | 2 | 28% |
| The Albert Baker Fund | $185,265 | 5 | 4% |
| Seward Association for the Advancement of Marine Science | $155,250 | 2 | 1% |
| Nine Star Enterprises Inc | $152,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Anchorage Affordable Housing and | $150,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 118 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($368k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 104 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Rasmuson Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · The Carr Foundation Inc · Atwood Foundation Inc · Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation · Alaska Humanities Forum · The Usibelli Foundation · MEWebber Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Alaska Children's Trust · United Way of Anchorage · Frances & David Rose Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation with peer funders
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About Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation
- How much does Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation give?
- Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation reported 75 grants totaling $1,361,324 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 57 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (19%), Arts & Culture (19%), Religion (15%).
- Who are Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Covenant House Alaska ($850k), First Church of Christ Scientist ($797k), Partners for Progress ($330k).
- Does Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rasmuson Foundation, The Alaska Community Foundation, The Carr Foundation Inc.
- Where is Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation based?
- Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation is based in DE.
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