· Private foundation
The Blend Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k46 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $201k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROSSROADS SCHOOL | $50,155 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $50,000 |
| SUNSAR MAYA | $30,000 |
| JEWEISH FEDERATION OF SAN ANTONIO | $25,000 |
| HOMESCHOOL NOW | $25,000 |
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| ACT BLUE CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| PKS KIDS | $10,399 |
| YOUTH BUSINESS ALLIANCE | $10,299 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| PFLAG INC | $10,000 |
| FOLDED FLAG FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SPARC INC | $5,459 |
| GRANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $5,232 |
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 (FY17–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 12% of The Blend 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 +39% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 30 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- ESEarth School Hawaii7× · 2018–2024 · $155k · revenue +382%
- SMSUNSAR MAYA INC7× · 2017–2024 · $148k · revenue +63%
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER3× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- VAVOTE AMERICAone grant, 2020 · $217k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTONone grant, 2019 · $100k
- UOUniversity of Houston Law Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +31%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Climate Resolve and the most unlike its peers is Pks Kids. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
148 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. 148 of the 290 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds Earth School Hawaii ↗
- Who funds SUNSAR MAYA INC ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds University of Houston Law Foundation ↗
- Who funds CITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE FOLDED FLAG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACTBLUE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK GIRLS CODE INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Business Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds Take Back The Court Foundation ↗
- Who funds PKS Kids ↗
- Who funds KCRW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE BENCH ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PFLAG ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds RepresentUs ↗
- Who funds EL SEGUNDO EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Blend 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.
- Girl Scouts of Oregon & Sw Washington Inc — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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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