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The Blackrock Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Blackrock Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$38M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$20M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$60MEmployment$30MPublic Benefit$12MEducation$7.4MCommunity Improvement$6.5MInternational$6.2MHealth$5.0MFood & Nutrition$4.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+25 grants · $36M
$250,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$212M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BREAKTHROUGH ENERGY CATALYST FOUNDATION$20,000,000
US-JAPAN COUNCIL$2,500,000
THE COMMIT PARTNERSHIP (TX)$2,000,000
BUILD COMMONWEALTH INC$2,000,000
NYC KIDS RISE INC$1,500,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$1,000,000
SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT (SC)$750,000
PARTNERS FOR RURAL IMPACT INC (NATIONAL)$750,000
Individual grant recipient$592,895
LEARN TO EARN DAYTON (OH)$500,000
VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION$500,000
BUILD COMMONWEALTH INC$500,000
PER SCHOLAS (NC)$500,000
Individual grant recipient$286,898
Individual grant recipient$267,687
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $450k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 14%MERIT AMERICA: $250k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
DE
NC
SC
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$109M · 25 repeat orgs$27M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
32

Total granted

$109M
$16M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+7%

Still filing today

68%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PS
    PER SCHOLAS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +178%
  • EG
    ECHOING GREEN INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +32%
  • PT
    PURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATIVE NEW DIAGNOSTICS
    one grant, 2022 · $5.0M
  • TG
    The Global FoodBanking Network
    one grant, 2021 · $2.4M · revenue -44%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $2.3M · revenue +1%
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.

04Its field

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.

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Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
4
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
5
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
6
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
7
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
8
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
9
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
10
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
11
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment
12
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 80 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
27/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Breakthrough Energy Catalyst Foundation: $60,000,000 · EnvironmentBreakthrough Energy Catalyst FoundationFOUNDATION FOR INNOVATIVE NEW DIAGNOSTICS (FIND): $5,000,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR INNOVA…THE COMMIT PARTNERSHIP (TX): $2,000,000 · OtherTHE COMMIT PARTNERSHI…Individual grant recipient: $1,312,264 · OtherFINANCIAL HEALTH NETWORK INC: $2,772,176 · OtherFINANCIAL HEALTH NETW…Feeding America: $1,000,000 · Other+48 more: $13,610,058 · Other+48 moreGENERATION YOU EMPLOYED INC: $13,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentGENERATION Y…NYC KIDS RISE INC: $1,500,000 · Youth DevelopmentNYC KIDS RIS…Build Commonwealth Inc: $11,703,683 · Public BenefitBuild Com…+1 more: $350,000 · Public BenefitUS- JAPAN COUNCIL: $2,500,000 · InternationalThe Global FoodBanking Network: $2,400,000 · InternationalLABORATORIA INC: $2,000,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,500,000 · InternationalONE ACRE FUND: $750,000 · International+6 more: $916,650 · InternationalPER SCHOLAS INC: $6,500,000 · EmploymentUPWARDLY GLOBAL: $1,000,000 · Employment3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $375,000 · EmploymentDUKE UNIVERSITY: $2,282,036 · EducationECHOING GREEN INC: $1,290,000 · EducationPURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC: $1,100,000 · EducationSPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT: $750,000 · EducationCOOP Careers Inc: $500,000 · EducationLEARN TO EARN DAYTON: $500,000 · Education+2 more: $35,000 · Education
Environment$60,000,000Other$25,694,498Youth Development$14,500,000Public Benefit$12,053,683International$10,066,650Employment$7,875,000Education$6,457,036

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBreakthrough Energy Catalyst Foundation: $60,000,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetGENERATION YOU EMPLOYED INC: $13,000,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetBuild Commonwealth Inc: $11,703,683 over 4y, 97% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC: $6,500,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetFINANCIAL HEALTH NETWORK INC: $2,772,176 over 3y, 14% of budgetUS- JAPAN COUNCIL: $2,500,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetThe Global FoodBanking Network: $2,400,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $2,282,036 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLABORATORIA INC: $2,000,000 over 5y, 50% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,500,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNYC KIDS RISE INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC: $1,290,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetPURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC: $1,100,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetFeeding America: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPWARDLY GLOBAL: $1,000,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetSPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT: $750,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetONE ACRE FUND: $750,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC: $750,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetNPOWER INC: $750,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCOOP Careers Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetLEARN TO EARN DAYTON: $500,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budget3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $375,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $350,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $310,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMERIT AMERICA: $250,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR LATINO COMMUNITY ASSET BUILDERS: $250,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $200,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $175,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWest Contra Costa Public Education Fund: $148,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $129,080 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPhilabundance: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $16,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Wells Fargo FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Blue Meridian Partner…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Rockefeller Found…Tides FoundationThe Chicago Community…Workday FoundationCiti FoundationThe Prudential Founda…New Profit Inc
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA22.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Blue Meridian Partners Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Workday Foundation · Citi Foundation · The Prudential Foundation · New Profit Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Blackrock Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Blackrock Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Food Bank of Delaware Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Compass Working Capital Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Blackrock Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Blackrock Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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