New York · Private foundation
The Block Grausman Fund
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.
- $58k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $14,345
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 50
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $791k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations The Block Grausman Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 36 | $58k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $61k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $59k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $77k | 2% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $65k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $65k | 4% |
| FY2019 | 47 | $59k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 48 | $66k | 4% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Careers Through Culinary Arts Program Dba Culinary Careers Program | $206,179 | 9 | 1% |
| Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc | $38,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Washington Art Association Incorporated | $26,250 | 9 | 1% |
| Washington Volunteer Fire Dept Inc | $15,500 | 9 | 2% |
| Washington Scholarship Fund Inc | $11,600 | 9 | 1% |
| George School | $10,000 | 9 | n/a |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $9,400 | 5 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $8,324 | 8 | 0% |
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | $8,011 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($179k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Block Grausman Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Kestrel Foundation · Murray & Susan Haber Charitable Foundation · Coleman Family Charitable Foundation · The Wenden Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Rene Bloch Foundation · Dungannon Foundation Inc · The Big Wood Foundation · The Connecticut Community Foundation · The Robert Berne Foundation · Ponagansett Foundation Inc · Shaftel Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Block Grausman Fund
- How much does The Block Grausman Fund give?
- The Block Grausman Fund reported 36 grants totaling $57,570 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Block Grausman Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (36%), Arts & Culture (16%), Education (9%).
- Who are The Block Grausman Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Careers Through Culinary Arts Program Dba Culinary Careers Program ($206k), Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc ($39k), Washington Art Association Incorporated ($26k).
- Does The Block Grausman Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Block Grausman Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Block Grausman Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Kestrel Foundation, Murray & Susan Haber Charitable Foundation, Coleman Family Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Block Grausman Fund based?
- The Block Grausman Fund is based in NY.
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