· Private foundation
The Johanna K and Jeffrey T Black 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 $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS | $100,000 |
| ASPEN INSTITUTE | $84,828 |
| ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $21,000 |
| BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CUREPSAP | $5,000 |
| BOSTON ATHENAEUM | $5,000 |
| ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES | $5,000 |
| INDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +46% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $438k · revenue +91%- BABRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $215k · revenue +38%
Cornell University3× · 2020–2022 · $120k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- CSCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTERone grant, 2022 · $5k
- EIE INCone grant, 2020 · $500
- ARART RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE FOR KIDS (ARCK) INCORPORATEDone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue -15%
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.
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.
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…
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…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The University of Calgary is a global intellectual hub located in Canada's most enterprising city. In this spirited, high quality learning environment students will thrive in programs made rich by research, hands-on experiences and…
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
Aura provides innovative, open resources to enable discovery and excellence in research, to unify the astrophysics communities, and to promote public understanding of our universe and the benefits of scientific exploration.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 16 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 THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oberlin College ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds CUREPSP INC ↗
- Who funds ART RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE FOR KIDS (ARCK) INCORPORATED ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Johanna K and Jeffrey T Black Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Johanna K and Jeffrey T Black Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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