Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Blais Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $6k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Blais Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $6k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $6k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $19k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $42k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $54k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $74k | 62% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $83k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $35k | 67% |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Education$349kRecreation & Sports$3k
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
ME
VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
VA
DE
DC
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $32,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Northeastern University | $19,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Emmanuel College | $16,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Suffolk University | $12,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Stonehill College Inc | $12,800 | 2 | 0% |
| New England Institute of Technology | $9,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $9,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Assumption University | $9,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $6,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Norwich University | $6,400 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $32,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Northeastern University | $19,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Emmanuel College | $16,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Suffolk University | $12,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Stonehill College Inc | $12,800 | 2 | 0% |
| New England Institute of Technology | $9,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $9,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Assumption University | $9,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $6,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Norwich University | $6,400 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Pittsburgh | $6,400 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Utah | $6,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Northwestern University | $3,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Connecticut College | $3,200 | 1 | 0% |
| The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology | $3,200 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Richmond | $3,200 | 1 | 0% |
| The George Washington University | $3,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Cornell University | $3,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $3,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross | $3,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Syracuse University | $3,200 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Delaware | $3,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Providence College | $3,200 | 1 | 0% |
| University of California- Davis | $3,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | $3,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Villanova University | $3,200 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($160k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Blais Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.
About The Blais Foundation
- How much does The Blais Foundation give?
- The Blais Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $6,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Blais Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Recreation & Sports (1%).
- Who are The Blais Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Worcester Polytechnic Institute ($32k), Northeastern University ($19k), Emmanuel College ($16k).
- Does The Blais Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Blais Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is The Blais Foundation based?
- The Blais Foundation is based in MA.
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