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The Blend Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$360k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
59
Grants FY2024
56
Organizations funded FY2023
55%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,155
Organizations funded a year
27 to 78
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
17
Total assets, FY2024
$5.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 55% of the organizations The Blend Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving58$335k52%
FY202356$254k55%
FY202262$207k61%
FY202178$216k65%
FY202066$463k79%
FY201935$231k66%
FY201837$202k84%
FY201727$163kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$584kEducation$521kHealth$286kPublic Benefit$254kReligion$159kCrime & Legal$104kCivil Rights$55kInternational$48kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Earth School Hawaii$155,000711%
Sunsar Maya Inc$148,000711%
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$125,00030%
Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences$118,00940%
University of Houston Law Foundation$100,00012%
City of Hope$60,00020%
Beth Meyer Synagogue$50,0001n/a
The Folded Flag Foundation$45,00031%
Actblue Charities Inc$36,40341%
Black Girls Code Inc$29,00020%
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All grantees of The Blend Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Earth School Hawaii$155,000711%
Sunsar Maya Inc$148,000711%
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$125,00030%
Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences$118,00940%
University of Houston Law Foundation$100,00012%
City of Hope$60,00020%
Beth Meyer Synagogue$50,0001n/a
The Folded Flag Foundation$45,00031%
Actblue Charities Inc$36,40341%
Black Girls Code Inc$29,00020%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$28,35310%
Youth Business Alliance Inc$27,73145%
Take Back The Court Foundation$25,00012%
PKS Kids$23,099422%
Kcrw Foundation Inc$15,94050%
The Blue Bench$15,00011%
The Harold Grinspoon Foundation$15,00010%
American Heart Association Inc$10,10020%
Special Olympics of Texas Inc$10,00010%
RepresentUs$10,00010%
Pflag$10,00010%
El Segundo Education Foundation$8,60020%
Best Buddies International Inc$7,30640%
Santa Monica Education Foundation$6,72120%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$6,00020%
Sparc Inc$5,45911%
Team Rubicon Inc$5,01510%
The Sheltering Arms Inc$5,00010%
Maui United Way$5,00010%
Duke University$5,00010%
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles$5,00020%
Thrivewell Cancer Foundation$5,00011%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Gilman School Incorporated$4,03020%
Vintage Church$4,0002n/a
Westside Food Bank$4,00030%
North Harris Montgomery Community College District$4,00020%
Equal Justice Initiative$3,03030%
Harlequin Productions Inc$3,00020%
Manhattan Beach Education Foundation$3,00020%
Heal the Bay$3,00010%
Rainier Scholars$2,30030%
Food Lifeline$2,20030%
Junior League of Los Angeles Inc$2,00040%
Tapestry la Church$2,0001n/a
Givedirectly Inc$2,00010%
Willie Bee Foundation Inc$2,00032%
One Family Fund$2,00010%
The Ryman-Carroll Foundation$2,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$1,60010%
United States Fund for Unicef$1,59430%
Ps Arts$1,57520%
Advocates for Language Learning El Marino$1,52540%
Turtle Conservancy$1,50010%
Colorado State University Foundation$1,30010%
Feeding America$1,25020%
Together Women Rise$1,20030%
Iama Theatre Company$1,08210%
Community Homes for Adults Inc$1,08010%
Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc$1,03010%
Children International$1,00010%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$1,00010%
The Brigid Alliance Inc$1,00010%
Downtown Women's Center$1,00010%
One Days Wages$1,00010%
The Amalfi Jets Charitable Foundation$1,00010%
Project Angel Heart$1,00020%
American Youth Soccer Organization$1,00010%
Camp Kesem National$1,00010%
High Mountain Institute Inc$1,00010%
Project Angel Food$1,00010%
Northwest Harvest Emm$91930%
The Harker School$90010%
Upward Bound House$88530%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$85030%
Andson Inc$75010%
Seattle Children's Hospital$75030%
Hopelink$70030%
Three Little Pitties Rescue$65610%
1979 Legacy Corp$61910%
Food for the Hungry Inc$60010%
National Eating Disorders Association$52610%
South Bay Families Connected$51710%
Northshore Schools Foundation$51510%
Global Empowerment Inc$5131n/a
North Gwinnett Cooperative Inc$50010%
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley$50010%
Samaritan's Purse$50020%
All for Armenia$50010%
Kidvantage$50010%
Westside Neighborhood School$50010%
Lyrical Opposition$5001n/a
Breakthrough T1d$50010%
Go Eat Give Inc$500122%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc$45920%
Graland Country Day School$45020%
Climate Resolve$42510%
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc$40420%
The Sophia Way$40010%
Farm Animal Refuge$40010%
Bharat Sevashram Sangha West Ca$39910%
Step Up on Second Street Inc$35020%
Lambert House$30010%
Amplify My Community Inc$30011%
American Cancer Society Inc$26410%
Texas Irish Foundation$26310%
Mary's Place Seattle$26110%
Washington Innocence Project$26010%
Legal Voice$25810%
Assistance League of the Eastside$25710%
Mile High Labrador Retriever Mission$25010%
Cancer Research Institute Inc$25010%
Bread of Life Mission$25010%
Austin Street Center$25010%
Autism Speaks Inc$2501n/a
Washington Wild$25010%
Avon Old Farms School Inc$25010%
Rock Steady Boxing Inc$25010%
Weingart Center Association$25010%
Endangered Species Coalition$22510%
Girl Scouts of Oregon & Sw Washington Inc$20810%
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver$20710%
Best Friends Animal Society$20610%
Sewa International Inc$20110%
Everett Gospel Mission$20010%
Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation$20010%
Friends of Youth$20010%
The Periwinkle Foundation$20010%
Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation$2001n/a
We the Protesters Inc$20010%
The Wilderness Society$20010%
All Seated in a Barn$20010%
Palestine Children's Relief Fund$20010%
Southern California Public Radio$20010%
Loveleo Rescue$20010%
Stray Cat Alliance$20010%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$20010%
The Clear Fund$20010%
BlacklistLA Run Organization Inc$20010%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$20010%
Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation$11010%
Colorectal Cancer Alliance$10610%
Choc Foundation$10310%
New York Road Runners Inc$10010%
Culver City Education Foundation$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 138 recipients with no EIN on record ($850k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Blend Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEarth School Hawaii: $155,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetSunsar Maya Inc: $148,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCrossroads School for Arts and Sciences: $118,009 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Houston Law Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCity of Hope: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Folded Flag Foundation: $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetActblue Charities Inc: $36,403 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBlack Girls Code Inc: $29,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc: $28,353 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Business Alliance Inc: $27,731 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetTake Back The Court Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPKS Kids: $23,099 over 4y, 22% of budgetKcrw Foundation Inc: $15,940 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Blue Bench: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Harold Grinspoon Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics of Texas Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRepresentUs: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPflag: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEl Segundo Education Foundation: $8,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $7,306 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Monica Education Foundation: $6,721 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSparc Inc: $5,459 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTeam Rubicon Inc: $5,015 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Sheltering Arms Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaui United Way: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDuke University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter Theatre Group of Los Angeles: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThrivewell Cancer Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGilman School Incorporated: $4,030 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWestside Food Bank: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Harris Montgomery Community College District: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $3,030 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHarlequin Productions Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetManhattan Beach Education Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHeal the Bay: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRainier Scholars: $2,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFood Lifeline: $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJunior League of Los Angeles Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGivedirectly Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWillie Bee Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetOne Family Fund: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ryman-Carroll Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $1,594 over 3y, 0.0% of budget

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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 138.

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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.

California Community FoundationCA24.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · The Norcliffe Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · Armanino Foundation

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.

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How do I get to The Blend Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Blend Family 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.

About The Blend Family Foundation

How much does The Blend Family Foundation give?
The Blend Family Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $360,354 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 78 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Blend Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (25%), Education (22%), Health (12%).
Who are The Blend Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Earth School Hawaii ($155k), Sunsar Maya Inc ($148k), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($125k).
Does The Blend Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Blend Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Blend Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation, Sempra Foundation.
Where is The Blend Family Foundation based?
The Blend Family Foundation is based in TX.

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 290 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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