Alabama · Private foundation
The Blackmon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $26k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $9,292
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $448k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Blackmon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 10 | $26k | 70% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $20k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $24k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $26k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $27k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $27k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $28k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $29k | 42% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heart of Alabama Food Bank Inc | $41,579 | 8 | 0% |
| The Montgomery Academy | $27,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Crimson Tide Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Children's Hospital of Alabama | $6,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Lausanne Collegiate School | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Feeding Avery Families Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Linville Foundation Inc | $3,741 | 3 | 0% |
| Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Association | $3,650 | 3 | 0% |
| Tum Tum Tree Foundation | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Big Oak Ranch Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heart of Alabama Food Bank Inc | $41,579 | 8 | 0% |
| The Montgomery Academy | $27,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Crimson Tide Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Children's Hospital of Alabama | $6,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Lausanne Collegiate School | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Feeding Avery Families Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Linville Foundation Inc | $3,741 | 3 | 0% |
| Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Association | $3,650 | 3 | 0% |
| Tum Tum Tree Foundation | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Big Oak Ranch Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Ala | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| United Ability Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mercy Ships International | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($127k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Blackmon 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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Landa Fund · Crum Family Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About The Blackmon Family Foundation
- How much does The Blackmon Family Foundation give?
- The Blackmon Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $26,104 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Blackmon Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (41%), Food & Nutrition (19%), Education (17%).
- Who are The Blackmon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Heart of Alabama Food Bank Inc ($42k), The Montgomery Academy ($28k), Crimson Tide Foundation ($10k).
- Does The Blackmon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Blackmon Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Blackmon Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alabama Power Foundation Inc, The Landa Fund, Crum Family Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Blackmon Family Foundation based?
- The Blackmon Family Foundation is based in AL.
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