· Private foundation
The Blend Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| HOMESCHOOL NOW | $25,000 |
| ACT BLUE CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| JEWEISH FEDERATION OF SAN ANTONIO | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| PKS KIDS | $10,399 |
| YOUTH BUSINESS ALLIANCE | $10,299 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FOLDED FLAG FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PFLAG INC | $10,000 |
| SPARC INC | $5,459 |
| GRANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $5,232 |
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of The Blend Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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How this is measured
148 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. 148 of the 290 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Blend Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Blend Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Girl Scouts of Oregon & Sw Washington Inc: 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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