· Private foundation
The Aaron and Marie Blackman Foundation Inc
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
90% of The Aaron and Marie Blackman Foundation Inc’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Jewish Community Federation Of San Francisco The Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Aaron and Marie Blackman Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $534k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k9 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $226k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $261k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY | $196,000 |
| ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE | $65,000 |
| AMIT CHILDREN INC | $24,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ELI | $21,000 |
| UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION | $17,000 |
| ALEH ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| RONALD C WORNICK JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| OAKLAND HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| BRANDEIS HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF MARIN | $15,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT - YESHIVAT BNEI AKIVA MAALOT YAAKOV | $12,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT - YESHIVAT HESDER KARNEI SHOMRON | $12,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT BIRKAT MOSHE MAALEH ADUMIM | $12,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT - YESHIVA NAHARIYA | $12,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +116% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2021, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- IEISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE5× · 2017–2022 · $350k · revenue +122%
- EFELI-AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL ASSOCIATION FOR CHILD PROTECTION6× · 2017–2022 · $94k · revenue +173%
- FOFRIENDS OF JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY LTD5× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue ×15
Funded once
- WCWEST COAST FRIENDS OF BAR ILAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $66k
- NCNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF SYNAGOGUE YOUTHone grant, 2018 · $40k
- JSJEWISH STUDENT UNIONone grant, 2019 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
Atlanta jewish academy is a college preparatory, co-educational, preschool-12th grade, independent jewish day school, guided by modern orthodox values and principles. we embody the ideals of community, tradition, individual development and…
To further jewish education in israel
Religious School
Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…
Denver academy of torah (the "school")provides education to students from kindergarten through high school. the school's mission is to nuture students to be torah-observant role models and future leaders through an intellectually rigorous…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Retorno. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ELI-AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL ASSOCIATION FOR CHILD PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds Adi Israel Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY LTD ↗
- Who funds Oakland Hebrew Day School ↗
- Who funds AMIT CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS HILLEL DAY SCHOOL - MARIN ↗
- Who funds CONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RETORNO ↗
- Who funds RONALD C WORNICK JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Koret Foundation · Meyer Milton Char Tuw-Main · Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture · The Jewish Community Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Aaron and Marie Blackman Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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