Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Blackhorse Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $509k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 70
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Blackhorse Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 55 | $509k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $471k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 62 | $422k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 70 | $260k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $470k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $415k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 51 | $303k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 50 | $329k | 34% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilkes University | $989,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Drexel University | $810,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Riverfront Parks Committee | $147,650 | 4 | 30% |
| Center for Excellence in Education | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School | $85,250 | 5 | n/a |
| King's College | $85,000 | 7 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $42,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Casa of Wyoming Valley | $41,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Misericordia University | $36,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Colonial Williamsburg Foundation | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 139 recipients with no EIN on record ($869k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Blackhorse Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 59 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: The Luzerne Foundation · The Tambur Family Foundation · Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation · Maslow Family Foundation Inc · Allone Charities · Davidowitz Foundation Inc · Sordoni Family Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Sordoni Foundation Inc · Joseph and Erma Paglianite Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Blackhorse Foundation
- How much does The Blackhorse Foundation give?
- The Blackhorse Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $508,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 70 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Blackhorse Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (73%), Recreation & Sports (6%), Health (6%).
- Who are The Blackhorse Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wilkes University ($989k), Drexel University ($810k), Riverfront Parks Committee ($148k).
- Does The Blackhorse Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Blackhorse 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 The Blackhorse Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Luzerne Foundation, The Tambur Family Foundation, Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Blackhorse Foundation based?
- The Blackhorse Foundation is based in PA.
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