Tennessee · Private foundation
The Blum Family Foundation
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.
- $362k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 91
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $135,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 74 to 134
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $366k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations The Blum Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $362k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 91 | $404k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 74 | $160k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 127 | $263k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 132 | $263k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 134 | $233k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Choosing Justice Initiative | $210,000 | 4 | 13% |
| Raphah Institute | $100,500 | 3 | 5% |
| Broome Street Academy Charter High School | $44,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $36,500 | 4 | 0% |
| 350org | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $29,166 | 3 | 0% |
| Central Synagogue | $26,550 | 5 | n/a |
| City Year Inc | $21,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Maine Seacoast Mission | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies North America Inc | $17,710 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 142 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 79 recipients with no EIN on record ($701k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Blum Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Enchiridion Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Blum Family Foundation
- How much does The Blum Family Foundation give?
- The Blum Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $362,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 74 and 134 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Blum Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (31%), Education (15%), Crime & Legal (15%).
- Who are The Blum Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Choosing Justice Initiative ($210k), Raphah Institute ($101k), Broome Street Academy Charter High School ($45k).
- Does The Blum Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Blum Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Blum Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Memorial Foundation Inc, The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation, Hca Healthcare Foundation.
- Where is The Blum Family Foundation based?
- The Blum Family Foundation is based in TN.
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