· Private foundation
The Block Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $213k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AQUINAS COLLEGE | $55,000 |
| DETROIT CATHOLIC CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $50,500 |
| MASONRY INSTITUTE OF MICHIGAN | $47,500 |
| NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS | $20,000 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $10,000 |
| ST LASALLE AUXILIARY CHRISTIAN BROTHERS | $10,000 |
| THE LENNON CENTER | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ROUGE | $10,000 |
| KIDNEY CANCER ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF DETROIT | $10,000 |
| MASONRY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +150%- FOFRIENDS OF THE ROUGE7× · 2019–2025 · $76k · revenue +161%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- TMTHE MASONRY SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $38k · revenue +31%
- CHCATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL INCone grant, 2017 · $25k
- SFSANTA FE INSTITUTE FOR SPIRITUALITYone grant, 2017 · $10k
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 promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
The mission of the michigan state university college of law is to provide a rigorous educational program which prepares a diverse community of students to be national and international leaders in private legal practice, business and…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The chamber is the voice for business and works to power the economy for southeast michigan through public policy, advocacy and leading regional economic development and talent initiatives.
Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
Bridging the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial application. partnering to de-risk, develop and scale-up discoveries into commercially-viable technology packages.
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alternatives for Girls and the most unlike its peers is Dbt-Linehan Board of Certification. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 41 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 MASONRY INSTITUTE OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds THE MASONRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROUGE ↗
- Who funds Aquinas College ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE LENNON CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MASONRY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE ARC LIVINGSTON ↗
- Who funds COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE KIDNEY CANCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALBION COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
- Who funds NORTHVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DBT-Linehan Board of Certification ↗
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: Dte Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Block 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.
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.