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The Blue Cloud Foundation Inc

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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Religion$1.2MEducation$850kArts & Culture$105kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $403k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST BENEDICT ED FOUNDATION$500,000
Individual grant recipient$350,000
ALLIANCE FOR INTERNATIONAL MONASTIC$350,000
CONCEPTION ABBEY$158,120
Individual grant recipient$95,000
ST JOSEPH ABBEY$50,000
ST JOSEPH SEMINARY COLLEGE$50,000
MARMION ABBEY$50,000
THE LABOURE SOCIETY INC$10,000
MOUNT ANGEL ABBEY$10,000
THE DOROTHY DAY GUILD$5,000
ORDER OF ST BENEDICT OF NJ$2,500
ST MEINRAD ARCHABBEY$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE LABOURE SOCIETY INC: $10k → 6%ALLIANCE FOR INTERNATIONAL MONASTIC: $350k → 15%THE DOROTHY DAY GUILD: $5k → 28%COMMUNIO INTERNATIONALIS BENDEDICT: $350k → 16%ST BENEDICT ED FOUNDATION: $500k → 17%MOUNT ANGEL ABBEY: $10k → 14%SWISS AMERICAN CONGREGATION: $100k → 9%MARMION ABBEY: $50k → 7%ORDER OF ST BENEDICT OF NJ: $3k → 4%PAULIST PRESS: $14k → 7%ST JOSEPH SEMINARY COLLEGE: $50k → 11%ALLIANCE FOR INTERNATIONAL MONASTIC: $250k → 15%COMMUNIO INTERNATIONALIS BENDEDICT: $250k → 16%ST BENEDICT ED FOUNDATION: $250k → 17%SWISS AMERICAN CONGREGATION: $95k → 9%MARMION ABBEY: $50k → 7%ST JOSEPH ABBEY: $50k → 11%CONCEPTION ABBEY: $174k → 17%SWISS AMERICAN CONGREGATION: $95k → 9%ST JOSEPH SEMINARY COLLEGE: $50k → 11%CONCEPTION ABBEY: $158k → 17%ST MEINRAD ARCHABBEY: $1k → 9%ST JOSEPH ABBEY: $50k → 11%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
MO
LA
AL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 8 repeat orgs$171k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$2.9M
$142k

Still filing today

0%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • SB
    ST BENEDICT ED FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $750k
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR INTERNATIONAL MONASTIC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $600k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2024–2025 · $600k

Funded once

  • SB
    ST BENEDICT ABBEY
    one grant, 2024 · $128k
  • PP
    Paulist Press Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $14k · revenue +6%
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
04the grantee network

2 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
2/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST BENEDICT ED FOUNDATION: $750,000 · OtherST BENEDICT ED FOUNDATIONALLIANCE FOR INTERNATIONAL MONASTIC: $600,000 · OtherALLIANCE FOR INTERNATIONAL MONASTICIndividual grant recipient: $600,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCONCEPTION ABBEY INC: $332,176 · OtherCONCEPTION ABBEY INCIndividual grant recipient: $290,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST BENEDICT ABBEY: $128,400 · Other+8 more: $332,175 · Other+8 moreTHE LABOURE SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,032,751Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPaulist Press Inc: $13,675 over 1y, 0.9% 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 Paulist Press Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE LABOURE SOCIETY 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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA8.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Blue Cloud Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Blue Cloud Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 15 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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