California · Private foundation
Robert & Joan Blackman Family 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.
- $800k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 72
- Grants FY2024
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $30,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 65
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 19
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Robert & Joan Blackman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 | 72 | $800k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 65 | $730k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $895k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $765k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $741k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $620k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $677k | 16% |
| FY2017 | 31 | $613k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Carter Center Inc | $360,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $250,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Race to Erase Ms | $240,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Los Angeles Philharmonic Association | $180,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $175,000 | 8 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $135,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Core Community Organized Relief Effort | $130,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc | $120,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Food Bank | $120,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Meals on Wheels West | $100,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert & Joan Blackman Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Rose Hills Foundation · QueensCare · The Green Foundation · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · The Ahmanson Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
Compare Robert & Joan Blackman Family Foundation with peer funders
About Robert & Joan Blackman Family Foundation
- How much does Robert & Joan Blackman Family Foundation give?
- Robert & Joan Blackman Family Foundation reported 72 grants totaling $800,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Robert & Joan Blackman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (29%), International (20%), Education (12%).
- Who are Robert & Joan Blackman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Carter Center Inc ($360k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($250k), Race to Erase Ms ($240k).
- Does Robert & Joan Blackman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert & Joan Blackman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert & Joan Blackman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, The Rose Hills Foundation.
- Where is Robert & Joan Blackman Family Foundation based?
- Robert & Joan Blackman Family Foundation is based in CA.
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