· Private foundation
The Blake Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k6 grants · $9k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| RESOURCE WEST | $5,045 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| TPT | $750 |
| MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM | $325 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $150 |
| ANNUNCIATION FOUNDATION FOR SURVIVO | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2026, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION3× · 2024–2026 · $130k · revenue +12%
- UIUPTURNSHIPS INC5× · 2019–2023 · $2k · revenue +56%
- MHMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- ICINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -3%
- SLST LOUIS PRONAOS OF ROSICRUCIAN ORDone grant, 2023 · $4k
- IFICA FOODSHELF EMPTY BOWLSone grant, 2022 · $4k
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.
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.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.
To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
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…
The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…
Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…
The Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault is a statewide coalition driving transformative culture change to address sexual violence through advocacy, prevention, racial justice, and systems change. We envision a world free of sexual…
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
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…
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 53 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Resourcewest ↗
- Who funds INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UPTURNSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOPKINS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CORNERHOUSE ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds The Advocates For Human Rights ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY FOOD ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
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: Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Pentair Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Blake Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Blake Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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