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The Blais Foundation at a glance

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The Blais Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,200
Median grant
2
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT JOSEPHS COLLEGE OF MAINE$3,200
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND$3,200
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $3k → 10%BOSTON COLLEGE: $6k → 7%UMASS LOWELL: $19k → 8%NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $3k → 10%QUINSIGAMOND COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $3k → 11%STONEHILL COLLEGE: $6k → 11%UMASS AMHERST: $26k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $13k → 16%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $3k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PITTBURGH: $6k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $3k → 16%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 14%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $3k → 9%CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $3k → 11%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 7%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $6k → 8%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 19%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 15%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 14%WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE: $6k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $3k → 22%NORWICH UNIVERSITY: $6k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $3k → 10%RIVIER COLLEGE: $6k → 7%SAINT JOSEPHS COLLEGE OF MAINE: $3k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $6k → 15%UMASS LOWELL: $10k → 8%COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $3k → 11%STONEHILL COLLEGE: $6k → 11%UMASS AMHERST: $10k → 12%EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $6k → 16%NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 7%SAINT JOSEPHS COLLEGE OF MAINE: $3k → 7%UMASS LOWELL: $6k → 8%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $13k → 11%UMASS DARTMOUTH: $3k → 11%UMASS AMHERST: $6k → 12%EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $6k → 16%NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 7%UMASS LOWELL: $6k → 8%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $13k → 11%UMASS AMHERST: $6k → 12%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

ME
VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
VA
DE
DC
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$237k · 12 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
28

Total granted

$237k
$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+29%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    4× · 2019–2022 · $32k · revenue +42%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2021 · $19k · revenue +110%
  • EMMANUEL COLLEGE
    3× · 2018–2020 · $16k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +12%
  • WM
    WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • NU
    Norwich University
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +8%
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.

1
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
10
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is University of Richmond. 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

23 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. 23 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
21/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UMASS AMHERST: $54,400 · OtherUMASS AMHERSTUMASS LOWELL: $41,600 · OtherUMASS LOWELLWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $32,000 · OtherWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTESAINT JOSEPHS COLLEGE OF MAINE: $12,800 · OtherSAINT JOSEPHS COLLEGE OF MAINETRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $9,600 · Other+16 more: $67,200 · Other+16 moreNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $19,200 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYEMMANUEL COLLEGE: $16,000 · EducationEMMANUEL COLLEGESUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $12,800 · EducationSUFFOLK UNIVERSITYSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC: $12,800 · EducationSTONEHILL COLLEGE INCNEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $9,600 · EducationNEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $9,600 · EducationASSUMPTION UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $6,400 · EducationNorwich University: $6,400 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $6,400 · Education+10 more: $32,000 · Education+10 moreNorthwestern University: $3,200 · Recreation & Sports
Other$217,600Education$131,200Recreation & Sports$3,200

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $32,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $19,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMMANUEL COLLEGE: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $12,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC: $12,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $9,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $9,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $9,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $6,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorwich University: $6,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $6,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $3,200 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
  • Norwich University: 14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology: 12% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 6% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 2% of income from government
  • Stonehill College Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University: 1% of income from government
  • Assumption University: 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
  • Emmanuel College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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