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The Karen & Todd Blue Family Foundation at a glance

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The Karen & Todd Blue Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$129k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% 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
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $128k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HOUSTON$25,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$23,500
THE SHUL OF BELLAIRE$23,000
THE STORY CHURCH$20,000
CHABAD OF MALIBU$18,000
CHABAD OF FLAGSTAFF$18,000
NORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BOYS REPUBLIC: $5k → 14%ANGEL REACH: $4k → 9%CAMP KESEM: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $15k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

OR
PA
CA
NE
MO
KY
MD
AZ
NC
DC
HI
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$870k · 12 repeat orgs$377k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
40

Total granted

$870k
$359k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+15%

Still filing today

58%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PU
    PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $146k · revenue +312%
  • SJ
    St John's School
    6× · 2017–2023 · $140k · revenue +130%
  • TH
    THE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION)
    5× · 2018–2023 · $95k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • 7
    73CHP
    one grant, 2019 · $75k
  • JF
    JEWISH FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +65%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
5
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

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.

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7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Children's Hospital Pathology Foundation Inc

The Foundation's mission is to provide pathology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the field…

Health
9
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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10
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
11
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
12
University of Illinois Foundation

The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Methodist Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Stable Road Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 55 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Jewish Federation of Greater Houston: $153,000 · OtherJewish Federation of Greater HoustonSt John's School: $140,000 · OtherSt John's SchoolTHE SHUL OF BELLAIRE CHABAD LUBAVITCH: $131,000 · OtherTHE SHUL OF BELLAIRE CHABAD LUBAVITCH73CHP: $75,000 · Other73CHPJEWISH FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE: $75,000 · OtherJEWISH FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLECHABAD OF MALIBU: $54,000 · OtherCHABAD OF MALIBUSTORY CHURCH: $45,000 · OtherSTORY CHURCH+24 more: $123,953 · Other+24 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $500,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $146,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION+4 more: $16,000 · EducationAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · InternationalAMERICAN …+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalTHE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION): $95,000 · HealthNORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Health+3 more: $4,500 · HealthCALIPARI FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · PhilanthropySTAND UP TO CANCER: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyMenil Foundation Inc: $29,584 · Arts & CultureHouston Museum of Natural Science: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $15,000 · Human ServicesBoys Republic: $5,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesANGEL REACH: $4,000 · Human ServicesCamp Kesem National: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$796,953Education$712,000International$151,000Health$112,000Philanthropy$66,000Arts & Culture$32,584Human Services$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Houston: $153,000 over 4y, 0.7% of 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
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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds St John's School ↗
  • Who funds THE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION) ↗
  • Who funds CALIPARI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds NORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
  • Who funds LADYLIKE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Boys Republic ↗
  • Who funds STABLE ROAD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds West End School Inc ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES EMPOWERED ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL REACH ↗
  • Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
  • Who funds LIFE ROLLS ON FOUNDATION ↗

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 Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…The Community Foundat…Raymond James Charita…California Community …Ge Aerospace Foundati…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Enterprise Holdings F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Karen & Todd Blue Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Karen & Todd Blue Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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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