· Private foundation
The Blueflash Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bard College | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Rangeley Public Library | $6,000 |
| Rangeley ME Family Health | $5,000 |
| Quebec Labrador Foundation | $5,000 |
| Bay Street Theater | $5,000 |
| Acord Food Pantry | $5,000 |
| USA for UNHCR | $5,000 |
| Rangeley Friends of the Arts | $5,000 |
| Rangeley Health and Wellness | $5,000 |
| Rangeley Museum | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| New York Public Radio | $2,500 |
| Theatre of the Oppressed NYC | $2,500 |
| Sag Harbor Church | $2,050 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 19 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- BSBAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +57%
BARD COLLEGE5× · 2019–2024 · $38k · revenue +241%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC3× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- RFRANGELEY FRIENDS OF THE ARTone grant, 2019 · $7k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- RLRANGELEY LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $5k
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…
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Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rangeley Lakes Region Historical Society. 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 43 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 73 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 Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds BAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Rangeley Lakes Region Historical Society ↗
- Who funds FAIRVOTE ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACORD INC ↗
- Who funds HealthReach Community Health Centers ↗
- Who funds JAZZ CLUB OF SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC INC ↗
- Who funds SAG HARBOR FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER REPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds NBCC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPENSECRETS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST 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 Ford Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer 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 Blueflash Foundation 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.
- Acord Inc — 10% 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.
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