· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BRANDEIS HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF MARIN | $15,000 |
| OAKLAND HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT - YESHIVAT BNEI AKIVA MAALOT YAAKOV | $12,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT BIRKAT MOSHE MAALEH ADUMIM | $12,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT - YESHIVAT HESDER KARNEI SHOMRON | $12,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT - YESHIVA NAHARIYA | $12,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +116% since the first grant, against +47% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- UOUUNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICAone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 61 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Aaron and Marie Blackman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Aaron and Marie Blackman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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