Maryland · Private foundation
The Lois & Irving Blum Foundation Inc
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.
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2022
- 93
- Grants FY2022
- 85
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 68%
- First-time grantees FY2022
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of The Lois & Irving Blum Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Lois & Irving Blum Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 64 organizations, $4M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2022
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $320,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 85
- FY2020 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 21
- Total assets, FY2022
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 68% of the organizations The Lois & Irving Blum Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 85 | $3.1M | 68% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $1.2M | 69% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $914k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conflict Awareness Project | $375,000 | 5 | 59% |
| Common Defense Education Fund Inc | $260,000 | 2 | 10% |
| New York University | $255,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Transportation Alternatives Inc | $255,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Guernica Centre for InternationalJustice | $250,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Riders Alliance Fund Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities | $230,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Georgia Alliance Education Fund Inc | $225,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Fusion Partnership Inc | $219,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Jews United for Justice Inc | $205,000 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 120 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Lois & Irving Blum Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 111 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Windward Fund · Foundation to Promote Open Society · New Venture Fund · Hopewell Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc
How this is measured
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About The Lois & Irving Blum Foundation Inc
- How much does The Lois & Irving Blum Foundation Inc give?
- The Lois & Irving Blum Foundation Inc reported 93 grants totaling $3,851,500 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 85 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
- What does The Lois & Irving Blum Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (62%), Civil Rights (13%), Public Benefit (6%).
- Who are The Lois & Irving Blum Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Conflict Awareness Project ($375k), Common Defense Education Fund Inc ($260k), New York University ($255k).
- Does The Lois & Irving Blum Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 68% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lois & Irving Blum Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lois & Irving Blum Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Tides Foundation, Windward Fund.
- Where is The Lois & Irving Blum Foundation Inc based?
- The Lois & Irving Blum Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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