· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOAN B SHAYNE FUND | $135,000 |
| BLUM-MERTEN FAMILY FUND | $75,000 |
| BLUM FAMILY FUND | $75,000 |
| HASLETT FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND | $75,000 |
| KEHILLA HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
149 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 145 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CJChoosing Justice Initiative4× · 2020–2024 · $210k · revenue +2%
- RIRAPHAH INSTITUTE3× · 2020–2024 · $101k · revenue +224%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC4× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- SISSP INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2024 · $10k
- JFJEWISH FOUNDATION OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEEone grant, 2022 · $9k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $8k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
144 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. 144 of the 227 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Blum Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Blum Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Vermont Works for Women Inc: 52% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Citysprouts Inc: 6% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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