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The Karen & Todd Blue Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$129k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
36%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$8k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations The Karen & Todd Blue Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalHealthArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$104k17%
FY202311$174k36%
FY202211$154k45%
FY202114$146k64%
FY202012$320k42%
FY201914$223k64%
FY201812$75k75%
FY201711$53kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$854kPhilanthropy$297kReligion$280kInternational$151kHealth$147kArts & Culture$37kHuman Services$20kYouth Development$7kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

OR
PA
CA
NE
MO
KY
MD
AZ
NC
DC
HI
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Israel Education Foundation Inc$150,00020%
Prager University Foundation$146,00070%
St John's School$140,00060%
The Shul of Bellaire Chabad Lubavitch$131,0003n/a
The Harold and Carole Pump Foundation (Fka the Harold Pump Foundation)$95,00054%
Calipari Foundation Inc$55,00025%
Chabad of Malibu$54,0003n/a
University of Oregon Foundation$50,00010%
Story Church$45,0003n/a
Menil Foundation Inc$29,58430%
Show all 34 grantees
All grantees of The Karen & Todd Blue Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Israel Education Foundation Inc$150,00020%
Prager University Foundation$146,00070%
St John's School$140,00060%
The Shul of Bellaire Chabad Lubavitch$131,0003n/a
The Harold and Carole Pump Foundation (Fka the Harold Pump Foundation)$95,00054%
Calipari Foundation Inc$55,00025%
Chabad of Malibu$54,0003n/a
University of Oregon Foundation$50,00010%
Story Church$45,0003n/a
Menil Foundation Inc$29,58430%
Chabad of Flagstaff$18,0001n/a
Covenant House Texas$15,00010%
Norton Healthcare Foundation Inc$12,50080%
Rowdy Foundation Inc$10,0001n/a
Stand Up to Cancer$10,0001n/a
Las Olas Chabad Jewish Center Inc$10,0001n/a
Ladylike Foundation$5,00011%
Boys Republic$5,00010%
Stable Road Foundation$5,00011%
West End School Inc$5,00010%
Families Empowered$5,00010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$5,00010%
Angel Reach$4,00010%
Houston Museum of Natural Science$3,00010%
Life Rolls on Foundation$2,50010%
The V Foundation$1,00010%
Lords Kitchen$1,0001n/a
The Methodist Hospital Foundation$1,00010%
Yellowstone Academy Inc Dba Yellowstone Schools$1,00010%
Camp Kesem National$1,00010%
Amigos de las Americas$1,00010%
Temple Israel of Hollywood$1,0001n/a
Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Canc$1,00010%
Houston Texans Foundation$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($229k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Karen & Todd Blue Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Israel Education Foundation Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPrager University Foundation: $146,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSt John's School: $140,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Harold and Carole Pump Foundation (Fka the Harold Pump Foundation): $95,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetCalipari Foundation Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetUniversity of Oregon Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc: $29,584 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCovenant House Texas: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorton Healthcare Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLadylike Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBoys Republic: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStable Road Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWest End School Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamilies Empowered: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAngel Reach: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLife Rolls on Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe V Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Methodist Hospital Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYellowstone Academy Inc Dba Yellowstone Schools: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmigos de las Americas: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Canc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Texans Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX14.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · California Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Karen & Todd Blue Family Foundation

How much does The Karen & Todd Blue Family Foundation give?
The Karen & Todd Blue Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $129,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Karen & Todd Blue Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (45%), Philanthropy (16%), Religion (15%).
Who are The Karen & Todd Blue Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Israel Education Foundation Inc ($150k), Prager University Foundation ($146k), St John's School ($140k).
Does The Karen & Todd Blue Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Karen & Todd Blue Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Karen & Todd Blue Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc.
Where is The Karen & Todd Blue Family Foundation based?
The Karen & Todd Blue Family Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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