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The Blatt Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $206k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL | $40,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL | $35,000 |
| NATIONAL SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY OF THE BAHAIS OF THE U | $35,000 |
| TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER | $26,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LIVER DISEAS | $25,000 |
| SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY OF THE BAHAIS OF SAN FRANCISCO | $15,000 |
| NORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISRAEL | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $10,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATES INC | $10,000 |
| ALONZO KING LINES BALLET | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL VIRUS NETWORK INC | $5,000 |
| INFORMED HORIZONS EDUCATION INC | $5,000 |
| GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC | $5,000 |
| ALONZO KING LINES BALLET | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Blatt Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- GVGLOBAL VIRUS NETWORK INC7× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue ×12
- AAAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LIVER DISEASES6× · 2019–2024 · $92k · revenue +20%
- SHSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG6× · 2019–2024 · $70k · revenue +305%
Funded once
- AIAMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITIONone grant, 2023 · $30k
- ISINQUIRING SYSTEMS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +213%
- TNTHE NARAS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…
The health and environmental sciences institute (hesi) is a nonprofit institution whose mission is to engage scientists from academia, government, industry, nonprofit, and other research institutions to identify and resolve global health…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.
Health effects institute's mission is to conduct independent research to provide high-quality, impartial and relevant science on the health effects of air pollution. this is done by identifying the highest priority areas for health effect…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The organization provides high quality medical care to the community that it serves and specifically provides cardiology & related professional medical services in conjunction with hmh hospitals corp.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delivering Good Inc and the most unlike its peers is 8TEENTH Crew. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 59 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL VIRUS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LIVER DISEASES ↗
- Who funds SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALONZO KING LINES BALLET ↗
- Who funds INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NARAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMANS CULINARY SCHOLARSHIP ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds INFORMED HORIZONS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTY INDIAN HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DELIVERING GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Blatt Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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