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The Block Grausman Fund at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Employment$206kArts & Culture$91kEducation$54kSocial Science$36kHuman Services$35kCivil Rights$27kHealth$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$791k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
C-Cap$14,345
International Rescue Committee$5,000
Washington Scholarship Fund$3,000
Washington Volunteer Firemen$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
CT Food Bank$3,000
Connecticut Public$2,000
Gunn Memorial Library$2,000
Steep Rock Association$2,000
Washington Art Association$2,000
Washington Community Fund$2,000
The Ashley Bryan Center$2,000
NAACP Legal Defense Fund$1,500
Isleford Library$1,500
National Academy of Design$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Susan B Anthony Project: $150 → 9%Susan B Anthony Project: $150 → 9%Susan B Anthony Project: $100 → 9%Susan B Anthony Project: $100 → 9%Susan B Anthony Project: $100 → 9%Susan B Anthony Project: $100 → 9%Susan B Anthony Project: $100 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
NC
DC
AL
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$568k · 52 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
6

Total granted

$568k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+178%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyCivil RightsEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CT
    CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $206k · revenue +5%
  • MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +186%
  • WA
    WASHINGTON ART ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
    9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • SC
    SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +49%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Museum of Modern Art

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)

Arts & Culture
3
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
4
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
5
Connecticut College

Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.

Education
6
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
7
Wheaton College

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…

Education
8
The George Washington University

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…

Education
9
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Art Association Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/31
Grantees still filing
24/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Boston University Tanglewood Institute: $40,500 · OtherBoston University Tanglewood InstituteThe Ashley Bryan Center: $34,500 · OtherThe Ashley Bryan CenterIndividual grant recipient: $25,050 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPalliative Care Program: $14,500 · OtherPalliative Care ProgramGEORGE SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $9,750 · OtherCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $8,011 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $9,000 · Other+32 more: $80,356 · Other+32 moreCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM: $206,179 · EmploymentCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DB…MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $38,500 · Arts & CultureMAHAIWE PERFO…WASHINGTON ART ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $26,250 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON AR…CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $11,600 · EducationTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationNATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN: $4,800 · Education+3 more: $2,050 · EducationWashington Volunteer Fire Dept Inc: $15,500 · HealthANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $8,324 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $4,694 · Civil RightsInternational Rescue Committee INC: $9,400 · InternationalAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $1,250 · International+1 more: $25 · International
Other$231,667Employment$206,179Arts & Culture$70,250Education$28,450Health$15,500Civil Rights$13,018International$10,675

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM: $206,179 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $38,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON ART ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $26,250 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetWashington Volunteer Fire Dept Inc: $15,500 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetWASHINGTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $11,600 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $9,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $8,324 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $8,011 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON COMMUNITY FUND INC: $6,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGUNN MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC: $5,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN: $4,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $4,694 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC: $4,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetVNA Northwest Inc: $2,600 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRANBERRY ISLES REALTY TRUST: $1,250 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNortheast Harbor Ambulance Service Inc: $1,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetIsland Institute: $800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC: $800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Seacoast Mission: $700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Literature for Children: $650 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUBUNTU PATHWAYS INC: $600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC: $307 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARTHUR MILLER FOUNDATION: $134 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

The Kestrel FoundationMurray & Susan Haber …Coleman Family Charit…The Wenden FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Rene Bloch FoundationDungannon Foundation …The Big Wood Foundati…The Connecticut Commu…The Robert Berne Foun…Ponagansett Foundatio…Shaftel Family Founda…
The Kestrel FoundationCT20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Block Grausman Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Block Grausman Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home