· Private foundation
The Blum Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREEN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH-TRAILS | $2,500 |
| COLUMBIA COLLEGE FUND COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LANGONE HEALTH | $2,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY ARNOLD ARBORETUM | $2,000 |
| GLOBAL LINKS | $1,500 |
| UTAH CLEAN ENERGY | $1,000 |
| UTAH RIVERS COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| BIRDS CONNECT SEATTLE | $1,000 |
| OGDEN VALLEY ADAPTIVE SPORTS | $1,000 |
| NORTHWEST SARCOMA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $248k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% 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 +40% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED6× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +57%
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2024 · $264k · revenue +75%- TCTHE CHIMES INC6× · 2017–2022 · $242k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- SHSINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INCone grant, 2023 · $194k · revenue +6%
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $102k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $100k
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.
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.
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…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
How this is measured
58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 93 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
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.
- Who funds MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHIMES INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Solomon Schechter ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMER ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE LATINA INC ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA ↗
- Who funds LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST FORUM ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Hudson Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
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: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Number Ten Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Strauss Foundation Incorporated · Eliasberg Family Foundation Inc · Linehan Family Foundation Inc · Herbert Bearman Foundation · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Blum Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Blum Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Baltimore Tree Trust Inc: 100% of income from government
- Maryland Humanities Council Inc: 60% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
- Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc: 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc: 6% of income from government
- The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc: 1% of income from government
- Lifebridge Health Inc: 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Brookline Teen Center: 0% of income from government
- Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc: 0% of income from government
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc: 0% of income from government
- Seeding Justice: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
- Mcdonogh School Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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