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The Blocker Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
69
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$2.7MHuman Services$2.2MHousing & Shelter$2.0MEnvironment$961kYouth Development$921kPhilanthropy$597kCommunity Improvement$592kArts & Culture$529kOther$0
02FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $587k
  • $50k–250k44 grants · $3.8M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$58,092
Median grant
3
States reached
$108M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEXT STEP TO SUCCESS$250,000
E3 ELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION$200,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTH HAMPTON$150,000
VIRGINIA SUPPORTIVE HOUSING$150,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION$125,000
NAUTICUS$125,000
BLACK BRAND$125,000
COMMONWEALTH ALLIANCE FOR RURAL COLLEGES$125,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS$100,000
JOY MINISTRIES$100,000
SAMARITAN HOUSE$100,000
PORTSMOUTH CATHOLIC REGIONAL SCHOOL$100,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN VA$100,000
ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION$100,000
HAMPTON ROADS ECUMENICAL LODGINGS$100,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 14%TIDEWATER PASTORAL COUNSELING SERVICES: $20k → 9%THRIVE PENINSULA INC: $140k → 17%BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%PIN MINISTRY: $50k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $100k → 15%YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS OF HAMPTON ROADS: $25k → 17%PIN MINISTRY: $42k → 10%IDA BARBOUR EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $65k → 20%PIN MINISTRY: $25k → 10%LINK OF HAMPTON ROADS INC: $25k → 17%ALTERNATIVE INC: $50k → 14%LINK OF HAMPTON ROADS INC: $25k → 17%PEAKE CHILDHOOD CENTER: $75k → 14%THRIVE PENINSULA INC: $50k → 17%YMCA OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $100k → 9%YMCA OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $100k → 9%YMCA OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $20k → 9%YMCA OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $6k → 9%VB HOME NOW: $88k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF TIDEWATER: $50k → 10%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA: $188k → 19%SURVIVOR VENTURES: $88k → 19%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA: $88k → 19%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA: $75k → 19%LOUISE W EGGLESTON CENTER INC: $50k → 19%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
CA
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 99 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

99 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

99
60

Total granted

$8.0M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+20%

Still filing today

65%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • FI
    FORKIDS INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $627k · revenue +6%
  • VW
    VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2023 · $610k · revenue +75%
  • CF
    CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $350k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • PD
    PAUL D CAMP COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • TC
    TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $140k
  • TN
    THOMAS NELSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $118k
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
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services
2
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.

Education
3
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
4
Sentara Health

We improve health every day through coordinating, promoting and planning for the provision of health services and the promotion of health, medical education, and the social, cultural, educational, and economic development of the community.

Health
5
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
6
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
7
Sentara Medical Group

See schedule o.as part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day through the establishment and operation of programs and services for the provision of health care and for health related purposes; the…

Health
8
Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association

Collaborating with our members and stakeholders, vhha works to ensure the sustainability of virginia's health care system and improve the health of all virginians.

—
9
Martha Jefferson Hospital

As part of sentara health's integrated delivery system, we improve health every day.

Health
10
Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education
11
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
12
Association for the Preservation of Va Antiquities

To preserve, promote and serve as an advocate for virginia's irreplaceable historic places for cultural, economic and educational benefits for everyone.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Path Partnerships; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

132 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. 132 of the 193 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
130/132
Grantees still filing
84/132
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $610,250 · OtherVIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTH HAMPTON: $370,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTH HAMPTONNAUTICUS FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH ALLIANCE FOR RURAL COLLEGES: $250,000 · OtherPAUL D CAMP COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $250,000 · OtherVIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY: $246,400 · Other+120 more: $3,959,991 · Other+120 moreCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER: $350,000 · Human ServicesCHILD & FAMILY …Young Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads: $225,900 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Chr…THRIVE PENINSULA FORMERLY DUCO: $190,000 · Human ServicesTHRIVE PENINSUL…PIN MINISTRY: $116,959 · Human ServicesPIN MINISTRYTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S …SURVIVOR VENTURES INC: $88,000 · Human ServicesSURVIVOR VENTUR…VB HOME NOW INC: $87,500 · Human ServicesVB HOME NOW INCDOWNTOWN HAMPTON CHILD CARE COUNCIL INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesWALK IN IT INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesIDA BARBOUR EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $65,000 · Human Services+10 more: $245,900 · Human Services+10 moreNext Step to Success: $250,000 · EducationNext Step …ELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION INC: $200,000 · EducationELEVATE EA…ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $191,518 · EducationACCESS COL…CHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY: $115,536 · EducationCHESAPEAKE…TIDEWATER YOUTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $107,150 · EducationTIDEWATER …Communities In Schools of Hampton Roads: $78,440 · EducationCommunitie…RITA WELSH ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM INC: $75,000 · EducationRITA WELSH…NANSEMOND SUFFOLK ACADEMY ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 · EducationTHE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND: $47,800 · Education+5 more: $20,950 · EducationFORKIDS INC: $626,583 · Housing & ShelterFORKIDS IN…JUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC: $250,000 · Housing & ShelterJUDEO-CHRI…Samaritan House Inc: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterSamaritan …NATASHA HOUSE INC: $70,000 · Housing & ShelterNATASHA HO…+2 more: $44,030 · Housing & ShelterNORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $225,095 · EnvironmentWETLANDS WATCH INC: $160,000 · EnvironmentThe Elizabeth River Project: $149,921 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $125,300 · EnvironmentNANSEMOND RIVER PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $50,000 · EnvironmentFRANKLIN PARKS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Environment+2 more: $300 · EnvironmentTHE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED: $299,955 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of South Hampton Roads: $145,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of the Virginia Peninsula: $100,000 · PhilanthropyHORIZONS HAMPTON ROADS INC: $95,000 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE: $55,748 · Philanthropy+4 more: $10,680 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY OUTREACH COALITION: $112,366 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA LIVING MUSEUM INC: $99,947 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $71,025 · Arts & CultureJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $64,000 · Arts & CultureColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $48,100 · Arts & CultureTHE HERMITAGE MUSEUM AND GARDENS: $40,000 · Arts & CultureSUFFOLK ART LEAGUE: $39,600 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$5,936,641Human Services$1,619,259Education$1,136,394Housing & Shelter$1,090,613Environment$760,616Philanthropy$706,383Arts & Culture$475,538

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 budgetFORKIDS INC: $626,583 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetVIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $610,250 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER: $350,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED: $299,955 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetJUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC: $250,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNAUTICUS FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNext Step to Success: $250,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads: $225,900 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $225,095 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $191,518 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHRIVE PENINSULA FORMERLY DUCO: $190,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetSupportWorks Housing: $185,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE URBAN RENEWAL CENTER: $168,270 over 4y, 12% of budgetWETLANDS WATCH INC: $160,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetThe Elizabeth River Project: $149,921 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetUnited Way of South Hampton Roads: $145,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $125,300 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSuffolk Christian Fellowship Center: $125,249 over 3y, 35% of budgetBLACK BRAND: $125,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHAMPTON ROADS WORKFORCE FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetJOY MINISTRIES EVANGELISTIC ASSOC: $125,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetPIN MINISTRY: $116,959 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY: $115,536 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA AREAWIDE MODEL PROGRAM INC: $112,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY OUTREACH COALITION: $112,366 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetPLACES AND PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN INC: $110,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTIDEWATER YOUTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $107,150 over 2y, 17% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: $100,200 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMOTHER SETON HOUSE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetUnited Way of the Virginia Peninsula: $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSamaritan House Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetVIRGINIA LIVING MUSEUM INC: $99,947 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetALBEMARLE AREA UNITED WAY: $95,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetHORIZONS HAMPTON ROADS INC: $95,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetSURVIVOR VENTURES INC: $88,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetVB HOME NOW INC: $87,500 over 1y, 34% of budgetCommunities In Schools of Hampton Roads: $78,440 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDOWNTOWN HAMPTON CHILD CARE COUNCIL INC: $75,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetRITA WELSH ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM INC: $75,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetWALK IN IT INC: $75,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetENVISIONLEADGROW INC: $75,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads: $73,100 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $71,025 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWILLIAMSBURG AREA MEALS ON WHEELS: $70,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetNATASHA HOUSE INC: $70,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetIDA BARBOUR EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $65,000 over 1y, 31% 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.

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.

Hampton Roads Communi…United Way of South H…Sentara HealthTownebank FoundationDominion Energy Chari…Langley for Families …Obici Healthcare Foun…Beazley Foundation In…The Landmark Foundati…The Southeast Virgini…Suffolk FoundationPeninsula Community F…
Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA113.1× affinity57 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Sentara Health · Townebank Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Obici Healthcare Foundation Inc · Beazley Foundation Incorporated · The Landmark Foundation · The Southeast Virginia Community Foundation · Suffolk Foundation · Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia 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 Blocker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Blocker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Blocker Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Blocker Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 193 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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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