· 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.
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 $10k35 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| C-Cap | $14,345 |
| International Rescue Committee | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Washington Volunteer Firemen | $3,000 |
| CT Food Bank | $3,000 |
| Washington Scholarship Fund | $3,000 |
| Washington Community Fund | $2,000 |
| Washington Art Association | $2,000 |
| The Ashley Bryan Center | $2,000 |
| Steep Rock Association | $2,000 |
| Gunn Memorial Library | $2,000 |
| Connecticut Public | $2,000 |
| NAACP Legal Defense Fund | $1,500 |
| Isleford Library | $1,500 |
| George School | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $800) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
52 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25 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
- CTCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM9× · 2017–2025 · $206k · revenue +5%
MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +186%- WAWASHINGTON ART ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +163%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
- SCSHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INCone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -22%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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)
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Art Association Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Childrens Literature for Children. 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 44 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 59 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 CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ART ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Washington Volunteer Fire Dept Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GUNN MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VNA Northwest Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING 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 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
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 Grausman Fund 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.
- Steep Rock Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Washington Art Association Incorporated — 2% of income from government
- Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Shakespeare & Company Inc — 1% of income from government
- Susan B Anthony Project Inc — 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.