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The Rhea Blackwood Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Rhea Blackwood Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$171k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$289kHealth$162kArts & Culture$137kHuman Services$95kEducation$59kScience & Tech$38kPhilanthropy$32kAnimals$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $137k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ENGLEWOOD HEALTH FOUNDATION$20,000
EMERGENCY USA$15,000
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$12,000
FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY$10,000
ENGLEWOOD HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
MAYO CLINIC$10,000
FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY$10,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD CO$10,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$10,000
NYU CENTER FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA$10,000
THE BLUE CARD$10,000
HEROES TO HEROES FOUNDATION$5,000
FRIENDS OF LYNN HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
MAYO CLINIC$5,000
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 (FY17–24, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Jewish Home Foundation of North Jer: $4k → 7%Jewish Home Foundation of North Jer: $1k → 7%LIFE OF HOPE: $5k → 20%Life of Hope: $4k → 20%Jewish Home Foundation of North Jer: $1k → 7%The Blue Card Inc: $17k → 17%THE BLUE CARD: $14k → 17%THE BLUE CARD: $10k → 17%The Blue Card Inc: $10k → 17%THE BLUE CARD: $10k → 17%The Blue Card Inc: $2k → 17%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $500 → 17%Mount Sinai Health System: $12k → 17%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
SC
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of The Rhea Blackwood Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 68% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 64%.

The Rhea Blackwood Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$659k · 28 repeat orgs$219k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
36

Total granted

$659k
$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+37%

Still filing today

54%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
InternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsHealthEducationOther
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

  • EU
    EMERGENCY USA
    7× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +56%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    3× · 2022–2024 · $72k · revenue +8%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST
    6× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -54%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -51%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +114%
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
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
3
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
4
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
5
United Israel Appeal Inc

The principal function of uia is to administer and supervise the funds allocated for philanthropic purposes related to immigration and absorption of humanitarian migrants to israel and jewish identity programs in israel and the former…

International
6
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
7
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
8
Jewish Institute for National Security of America

The jewish institute for national security of america (jinsa) was founded in 1976 as a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to advancing u.s. national security interests in the middle east, of which a critical pillar is a robust…

International
9
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
10
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc

Uja-federation of new york (uja) cares for jews everywhere and new yorkers of all backgrounds, responds to crises close to home and far away, and shapes the jewish future. through strategic grantmaking, uja provides funding and resources…

Philanthropy
11
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice Action Inc

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action (JFREJ Action or JFREJ) is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with our neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy for all of us.…

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12
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Home Foundation of North Jersey; the most unlike its peers is Frank Ridge Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 75 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
30/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY: $60,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMYENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL: $37,500 · OtherENGLEWOOD HOSPITALENGLEWOOD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherENGLEWOOD HEALTH FOUNDATIONCreating Legacies Foundation Inc: $26,000 · OtherCreating Legacies Foundation IncNYU CENTER FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherCRESSKIL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · OtherNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $20,000 · OtherPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $17,540 · OtherJASA CORPORATION: $17,000 · Other+34 more: $124,780 · Other+34 moreEMERGENCY USA: $179,500 · InternationalEMERGENCY USAAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $20,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAV…FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $15,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VE…ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $10,000 · International+5 more: $27,800 · International+5 moreThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $72,000 · Arts & CultureThe United Stat…MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $43,800 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF JEWIS…THE JEWISH MUSEUM: $10,180 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSE…+2 more: $2,800 · Arts & CultureTHE BLUE CARD INC: $62,600 · Human ServicesTHE BLUE C…MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesMOUNT SINA…LIFE OF HOPE: $9,000 · Human ServicesLIFE OF HO…JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEY: $5,600 · Human ServicesJEWISH HOM…+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesMAYO CLINIC: $35,000 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $5,500 · Health+2 more: $2,000 · HealthPets are Wonderful Support Inc dba PAWS: $15,000 · AnimalsPET RES Q TOO INC: $7,000 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $2,000 · AnimalsZanis Furry Friends ZFF Inc: $1,800 · AnimalsPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $17,500 · EducationFRIENDS OF LYNN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · EducationTHE NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $360 · Education
Other$389,820International$252,300Arts & Culture$128,780Human Services$89,200Health$42,500Animals$25,800Education$24,860

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 budgetEMERGENCY USA: $179,500 over 7y, 18% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $72,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLUE CARD INC: $62,600 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $43,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $17,540 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJASA CORPORATION: $17,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $11,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $10,180 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE OF HOPE: $9,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetPET RES Q TOO INC: $7,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $6,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEY: $5,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF LYNN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAdi Israel Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEROES TO HEROES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEAUTIFUL SELF INC: $2,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetZanis Furry Friends ZFF Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCUE ART FOUNDATION: $1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN TINNITUS ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $500 over 1y, 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.

Susan Zirkl Z L Memor…American Express Foun…The Hyde and Watson F…Jewish Communal FundNetwork for GoodNational Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…
Susan Zirkl Z L Memorial Charitable Foundation TrustNY26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Susan Zirkl Z L Memorial Charitable Foundation Trust · American Express Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation

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 Rhea Blackwood Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rhea Blackwood Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Heroes to Heroes Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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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How do I get to The Rhea Blackwood Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Rhea Blackwood Charitable Foundation 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 75 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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