· Private foundation
The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k6 grants · $942k
- $250k+197 grants · $1.0B
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $186,794,463 |
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | $78,780,000 |
| CHARTER FUND INC (DBA CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND) | $55,520,000 |
| RESOURCES LEGACY FUND | $26,500,000 |
| VITAL STRATEGIES INC | $25,254,000 |
| RESOLVE TO SAVE LIVES INC | $23,250,000 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $20,000,000 |
| C40 CITIES CLIMATE LEADERSHIP GROUP INC | $20,000,000 |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC | $19,900,000 |
| MEMORIAL HERMANN FOUNDATION | $19,161,000 |
| CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS | $16,666,000 |
| THE CLEAN AIR FUND | $14,300,000 |
| VITAL STRATEGIES INC | $13,058,000 |
| MUSEUM OF LONDON | $12,614,000 |
| HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE INC | $12,275,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $60.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
301 repeat relationships — 125 still active in FY2024, 176 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106M 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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $995M · revenue +42%- CFCAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS5× · 2020–2024 · $161M · revenue +553% · 94% of their budget
- CFCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND3× · 2022–2024 · $155M · revenue +22% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- WTWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $90M · revenue -37% · 61% of their budget
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $44M · revenue -51%
- CICLIMATE IMPERATIVE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $18M · revenue -6%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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 university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Village Academies Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Neue Galerie New York. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
442 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. 442 of the 635 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VITAL STRATEGIES INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS ↗
- Who funds CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ↗
- Who funds CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds RESOLVE TO SAVE LIVES INC ↗
- Who funds C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Inc ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds CITIES FOR FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
- Who funds BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESULTS FOR AMERICA ↗
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: Walton Family Foundation Inc · Gates Foundation · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Freedom Together Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · The Ford Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · New Venture Fund · City Fund · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Kresge 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 Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Rodel Charitable Foundation - De — 20% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Edvestors Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Maryland Inc — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Ceres 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.