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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
21
States reached
$320k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

29
’20
31
’21
64
’22
60
’23
3
’24
5
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$15MCivil Rights$3.0MPublic Benefit$1.5MInternational$1.2MEducation$863kCommunity Improvement$769kEnvironment$410kArts & Culture$293kOther$0
02FY2022 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k11 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k61 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+2 grants · $630k
$25,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC BERKELEY HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER$320,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$310,000
WINWARD FUND$230,000
GEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND$200,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL$200,000
CONFLICT AWARENESS PROJECT$130,000
COMMON DEFENSE EDUCATION FUND$110,000
AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION$100,000
AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE$80,000
RIDERS ALLIANCE INC$75,000
TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES$65,000
MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER$65,000
IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT (ICCI)$65,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS$60,000
CASA DE MARYLAND$60,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE-ATLANTA: $25k → 9%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE: $25k → 9%AL OTRO LADO: $10k → 14%THE PEOPLE'S FORUM: $20k → 17%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $2k → 19%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

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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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 52 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down; 86 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
33

Total granted

$5.3M
$801k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+13%

Still filing today

81%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsEducationInternationalCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitArts & 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

  • CA
    Conflict Awareness Project
    5× · 2020–2024 · $375k · revenue +131% · 59% of their budget
  • CD
    COMMON DEFENSE EDUCATION FUND INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $260k · revenue +285%
  • NY
    New York University
    2× · 2022–2023 · $255k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • FP
    FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC
    one grant, 2020 · $219k · revenue -78%
  • FF
    FUSION FBO TEACHERS DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $204k
  • WJ
    WILLIAM J BRENNAN JR CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
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.

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Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
2
Alliance for Justice

Alliance for justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.

Civil Rights
3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
6
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

—
7
Justice Action Center

Justice Action Center JAC pilots an innovative model that advances the rights of immigrant communities by connecting cutting-edge impact litigation and compelling narrative and communications content. The purpose of JAC is to advance the…

Civil Rights
8
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
9
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

—
10
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
11
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

—
12
Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund; the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising. 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

124 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. 124 of the 179 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
123/124
Grantees still filing
75/124
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $9,032,500 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation IncTIDES FOUNDATION: $5,007,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION+8 more: $480,000 · PhilanthropyUC BERKELEY HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER: $520,000 · OtherUC BERKELEY HUMAN RIGH…TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC: $255,000 · OtherTRANSPORTATION ALTERNA…FUSION FBO TEACHERS DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (TDP): $204,000 · OtherFUSION PARTNERSHIPS FISCAL SPONSOR FOR TEACHERS' DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $175,428 · OtherWINDWARD FUND: $230,000 · OtherJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC: $205,000 · OtherIMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST: $175,000 · Other+87 more: $2,810,000 · Other+87 moreConflict Awareness Project: $375,000 · Civil RightsRIDERS ALLIANCE FUND INC: $250,000 · Civil RightsPA Alliance Foundation: $125,000 · Civil RightsLIBERTY BELL DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Civil RightsSkylight Engagement Inc: $75,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsYellowhammer Fund: $50,000 · Civil Rights+14 more: $315,000 · Civil RightsGuernica Centre for InternationalJustice: $250,000 · InternationalAUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES: $230,000 · InternationalWin Without War Education Fund: $180,000 · InternationalFRONT LINE USA FOUNDATION: $105,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND: $70,000 · InternationalFUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $70,000 · InternationalURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM: $40,000 · International+11 more: $181,000 · InternationalNew York University: $255,000 · EducationGEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $225,000 · EducationWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 · EducationFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $32,000 · Education+17 more: $164,025 · EducationFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $219,000 · Community ImprovementIOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT: $135,000 · Community ImprovementNORTH MAIN STREET FUND: $50,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S ACTION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementNO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC: $40,000 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY: $40,000 · Community ImprovementPENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementPOWER INTERFAITH INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON DEFENSE EDUCATION FUND INC: $260,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $90,000 · Public BenefitTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $75,000 · Public BenefitCITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC: $40,000 · Public BenefitTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 · Public BenefitPoder in Action: $25,000 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$14,519,500Other$4,574,428Civil Rights$1,365,000International$1,126,000Education$776,025Community Improvement$574,000Public Benefit$515,000

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 budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $9,032,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $5,007,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetConflict Awareness Project: $375,000 over 5y, 59% of budgetCOMMON DEFENSE EDUCATION FUND INC: $260,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetNew York University: $255,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC: $255,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetGuernica Centre for InternationalJustice: $250,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetRIDERS ALLIANCE FUND INC: $250,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetAUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES: $230,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $230,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $225,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $219,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC: $205,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetWin Without War Education Fund: $180,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetIMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST: $175,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCASA INC: $140,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $140,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT: $135,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetPA Alliance Foundation: $125,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $115,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFRONT LINE USA FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPRING STREET CLIMATE FUND INC: $100,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNational Center for Youth Law: $90,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSkylight Engagement Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADELANTE LATINA INC: $55,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetBUSINESS EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNORTH MAIN STREET FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINDIGENOUS WOMEN RISING INDIGEOUS WOMEN RISING: $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION: $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYellowhammer Fund: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCRISTOSAL INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC: $40,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetRURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT: $40,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationWindward FundFoundation to Promote…New Venture FundHopewell FundNEO Philanthropy IncAll Hands on Deck Net…Wellspring Philanthro…The Jm Kaplan Fund IncBaltimore Community F…Rockefeller Philanthr…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC56.9× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Lois & Irving Blum Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lois & Irving Blum Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • The House of Ruth Maryland Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
  • The American Visionary Art Museum Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Goucher College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Lois & Irving Blum Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 179 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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