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The Blackbaud Giving Fund
Since its inception, bbgf has administered over $2.2 billion in donations from passionate individuals and corporations to 195,000 nonprofit organizations around the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1,860 grants below total $41,357,772 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $552,588,421 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $511,230,649 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k827 grants · $5.5M
- $10k–50k877 grants · $15M
- $50k–250k138 grants · $13M
- $250k+18 grants · $7.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $1,564,005 |
| ALSAC- EFT DEPOSITORY | $562,218 |
| UNITED WAY OF METRO CHICAGO | $548,212 |
| TOGETHER WE RISE | $513,712 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC | $451,402 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $330,100 |
| GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY | $326,066 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS | $324,000 |
| EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY FUND OF THE BOEING COMPANY | $301,828 |
| P33 | $300,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $283,877 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $277,602 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC | $274,049 |
| FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC | $265,060 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $262,967 |
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 (FY17–24, $52.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +21% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
1775 repeat relationships — 705 still active in FY2024, 1070 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $527k 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
- THTHE HCA HOPE FUND4× · 2021–2024 · $34M · revenue +25% · 86% of their budget
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $22M · revenue +145%- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches8× · 2017–2024 · $19M · revenue +46%
Funded once
- ECEMPLOYEES COMMUNITY FUND OF BOEING PUGET SOUND - PUGET SOUNDone grant, 2023 · $3.4M
- SLST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDone grant, 2023 · $1.5M
- OCONETEN COALITION INCone grant, 2023 · $1.1M · revenue -53%
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.
Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.
A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
Oklahoma city university prepares all learners to create, lead and serve.
Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.
Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance the university of toledo through fundraising, stewardship, and prudent asset management to provide scholarship opportunities for students, tier one athletic programs, education events…
The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…
American gas association (the association) is an advocate for natural gas utility companies and their customers. the association helps natural gas utilities achieve operational excellence in the safe, reliable and efficient delivery of…
Furman university is an institution of higher education providing distinctive undergraduate education emphasizing an engaged approach combining classroom learning with real world experiences and self-discovery.
To build trust and advance peace and prosperity though international exchange.
To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.
The common application promotes access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amherst H Wilder Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Jamesons Wings. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
1826 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. 1826 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE HCA HOPE FUND ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY FUND OF THE BOEING COMPANY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds The Global FoodBanking Network ↗
- Who funds PWC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds GENERAL ELECTRIC EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY SERVICE FUND ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds MGM RESORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds NOMI NETWORK 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Texas Capital Foundation · Siemer Institute · Sempra Employee Giving Network · The Pimco Foundation · Pott Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · The Bellwether Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Taco Bell Foundation Inc · Park National Bank Employees' Community Service Fund · The Crawford Taylor 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 Blackbaud Giving Fund 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Commonwealth Kitchen Inc — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way of Brevard County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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