· Private foundation
The Blessing Way Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $156k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRACTURED ATLAS INC | $45,400 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OUTSET | $25,000 |
| OUTER COAST | $25,000 |
| BERGGRUEN INSTITUTE | $15,750 |
| TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL | $10,000 |
| GREEN CITY FORCE | $10,000 |
| OFF ASSIGNMENT | $10,000 |
| INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK | $7,500 |
| GRAYWOLF PRESS | $5,000 |
| NEW MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| THE NEIGHBORHOOD - AN URBAN CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE | $5,000 |
| PROTOCINEMA | $5,000 |
| GEORGE MARK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF NEW CURATORS | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +65% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- GCGREEN CITY FORCE INC6× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +125%
- TATATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2025 · $101k · revenue +366%
COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC6× · 2017–2024 · $76k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- NANATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $51k
- LTLES TURNER ALS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $15k
- LILUMINARY IMPACT FUNDone grant, 2023 · $14k
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Via art fund is a nonprofit organization where art patrons join forces as partners in a new model of philanthropy to support visionary initiatives in art.
To encourage, sponsor, and promote innovative work in the arts created and presented by individuals, groups, and organizations.
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
White columns identifies significant emerging and under-represented visual artists and encourages their creative and professional development through the presentation of group and solo exhibitions, an online curated artists registry, and…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Provision of pro bono legal and consulting services to qualifying individuals/companies in the creative arts.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Public Art Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Berggruen Institute. 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 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 45 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 GREEN CITY FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds GRAYWOLF PRESS ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OUTSET INC ↗
- Who funds PROTOCINEMA INC ↗
- Who funds OUTER COAST ↗
- Who funds Berggruen Institute ↗
- Who funds ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ECHOING GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds The Neighborhood An Urban Center for Jewish Life ↗
- Who funds LUMINARY IMPACT FUND ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ART FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds I AM ALS ↗
- Who funds MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds NEW POLITICS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds OFF ASSIGNMENT INC ↗
- Who funds New Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
- Who funds Friends of The West Tisbury Public Library Inc ↗
- Who funds The Bronx Museum of the Arts ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NEW CURATORS INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
- Who funds ALL OUR KIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE ORION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PROGRESO LATINO ↗
- Who funds HOLY GHOST ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Cowles Charitable Trust · The San Francisco Foundation · Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ford Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Blessing Way Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Orion Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 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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