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The Sam S Bloom Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$574k
Granted FY2025still arriving
84
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$1.4MEducation$860kHousing & Shelter$761kEmployment$472kCommunity Improvement$245kReligion$108kHealth$76kYouth Development$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k75 grants · $374k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $200k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PINON PROJECT FAMILY RESOURCE C$30,000
BEYOND HOME$30,000
FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COL$30,000
PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF NORTH C$30,000
LA PUENTE HOME$30,000
FEEDING COLORADO$15,000
MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER$15,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FAMILY RES$10,000
COURT CARE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION$10,000
LA PLATA FAMILY CENTERS COALITION$9,500
EARLY EXCELLENCE PROGRAM OF DENVER$8,500
COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$8,000
HOPE COMMUNITIES INC$8,000
REACH OUT AND READ COLORADO$8,000
PARTNERS IN HOUSING$8,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FAMILY TREE: $7k → 7%BRIGHT FUTURES: $6k → 7%EARLY CONNECTIONS LEARNING CENTERS: $8k → 9%CREEDE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 9%BABY BEAR HUGS: $8k → 13%TRI-COUNTY FAMILY CARE CENTER INC: $6k → 23%BRIGHT FUTURES: $6k → 7%EARLY CONNECTIONS LEARNING CENTER: $6k → 9%BRIGHT FUTURES: $6k → 7%BRIGHT BY TEXT: $9k → 12%BRIGHT BY TEXT: $9k → 12%BRIGHT BY TEXT: $9k → 12%MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 12%MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER: $12k → 12%MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 12%MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 12%MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 12%MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 12%BOULDER HOUSING PARTNERS FDN: $6k → 12%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SE: $7k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SE: $7k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SE: $7k → 12%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 12%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 12%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SE: $6k → 12%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SE: $6k → 12%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COL: $30k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COL: $30k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COL: $30k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COL: $30k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COL: $30k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COL: $30k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COL: $30k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COL: $30k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $20k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $18k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $9k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $9k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $9k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $9k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER: $9k → 12%BRIGHT BY THREE: $10k → 12%BRIGHT BY THREE: $10k → 12%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $8k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.8M · 117 repeat orgs$247k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

117 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117
28

Total granted

$3.8M
$184k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+23%

Still filing today

75%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterHealthEmploymentYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • LP
    LA PUENTE HOME INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $240k · revenue +497%
  • CH
    COLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $240k · revenue +207%
  • WV
    WARREN VILLAGE INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $74k · revenue +194%

Funded once

  • CR
    COVID RELIEF FUNDMILE HIGH UNITED
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • MA
    MT AIRY LEARNING TREE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • AM
    ALMA MONTESSORI COOPERATIVE
    one grant, 2019 · $6k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services
2
Hope Center Inc

The organization provides childcare, preschool programs, gifted programs, vocational training, and therapy for the developmentally disabled.

Human Services
3
Colorado Thrives

Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.

Community Improvement
4
A Shared Vision Partners in Pediatric Blindness and Visual Imp

A Shared Vision educates, inspires, and empowers families to nurture the development of their young children who are blind or visually impaired. We provide early intervention vision services in families' homes and community settings…

Health
5
Early Childhood Council of Boulder County

To expand and improve the comprehensive system of quality early childhood services for families in boulder county. the organization acts as the countywide convener for strategic planning for early childhood programs and services.

Human Services
6
Seeds of Learning

Seeds of Learning is a stand-alone, NAEYC accredited early care and education center, that serves children ages 30 months through age 5. As a community-based facility, Seeds offers parenting classes, educational opportunities for families…

Education
7
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
8
Mental Health Center of Denver

We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.

Health
9
The Pinon Project

The Pinon Project Family Resource Center strengthens our community by providing comprehensive services for children and families.

Human Services
10
Arapahoe County Early Childhood Council Inc

Services provided in arapahoe county colorado related to early childhood education intervention issues.

Education
11
Denver Early Childhood Council

The vision of denver's early childhood council (the "council") is that denver is a community where the diverse needs of all children and their families are supported. the council elevates the early childhood field through innovative and…

Education
12
Colorado East Community Action Agency

To stabilize families living in poverty in the rural colorado counties of cheyenne, elbert, kit carson and lincoln, and to move them out of poverty through education, programs, and collaborations with other agencies.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parent Possible and the most unlike its peers is Mother House Dba Haven Ridge. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%1%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr11%34%35–55yr13%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr11%41%35–55yr13%22%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/120
the rest of the field
14%
2,918/21,488

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

115 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 115 of the 158 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/115
Grantees still filing
83/115
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LA PUENTE HOME INC — $240,000 · OtherLA PUENTE HOME INCTHE PINON PROJECT FAMILY RESOURCE C — $240,000 · OtherTHE PINON PROJECT FAMILY RESOURCE CPROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF LOVELAN — $150,000 · OtherPROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF LOVELANCOVID RELIEF FUNDMILE HIGH UNITED — $100,000 · OtherPROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF NORTH C — $90,000 · Other+79 more — $1,118,300 · Other+79 moreFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO — $240,000 · Human ServicesFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES …WARREN VILLAGE INC — $74,000 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLAGE INCMI CASA RESOURCE CENTER — $56,000 · Human ServicesBRIGHT BEGINNINGS — $55,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $52,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER — $48,000 · Human ServicesTHE MATTHEWS HOUSE — $40,000 · Human ServicesCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC — $38,500 · Human ServicesCREEDE EARLY LEARNING CENTER — $37,000 · Human ServicesTRI-COUNTY FAMILY CARE CENTER INC — $37,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHOUSE DENVER INC — $36,000 · Human Services+25 more — $342,300 · Human Services+25 moreCOLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC — $240,000 · Housing & ShelterCOLORADO HOM…HOPE COMMUNITIES INC — $58,500 · Housing & ShelterHOPE COMMUNI…Partners in Housing Inc — $56,500 · Housing & ShelterPartners in …THE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT INC — $36,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE INN BETW…THE GATHERING PLACE A REFUGE FOR REBUILDING LIVES — $15,500 · Housing & Shelter+4 more — $30,000 · Housing & Shelter+4 moreEARLY EXCELLENCE PROGRAM OF DENVER INC — $54,500 · EducationEARLY EXCE…Community Partnership for Child Development — $52,000 · EducationCommunity …EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION — $44,500 · EducationEMILY GRIF…SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $40,500 · EducationSEWALL CHI…TINY TIM CENTER INC DBA TLC LEARNING CENTER — $35,000 · EducationTINY TIM C…DURANGO ADULT EDUCATION CENTER — $30,000 · EducationDURANGO AD…DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION — $22,500 · EducationDENVER PUB…FAMILY STAR INC — $17,000 · EducationTeller Park Early Childhood Council — $13,000 · Education+10 more — $57,000 · Education+10 moreHILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION — $42,500 · HealthPEAK VISTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS — $40,000 · HealthABILITY CONNECTION COLORADO INC — $32,500 · HealthCommunity Coalition for Families and Children — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $2,500 · HealthRocky Mountain Microfinance — $44,500 · Community ImprovementMOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER — $40,000 · Community ImprovementWOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT — $40,000 · EmploymentGoodwill of Colorado — $20,000 · EmploymentMile High Workshop Inc — $15,000 · Employment
Other$1,938,300Human Services$1,055,800Housing & Shelter$436,500Education$366,000Health$127,500Community Improvement$84,500Employment$75,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLA PUENTE HOME INC — $240,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO — $240,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetCOLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC — $240,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetWARREN VILLAGE INC — $74,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITIES INC — $58,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetGROWING HOME INC — $56,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPartners in Housing Inc — $56,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMI CASA RESOURCE CENTER — $56,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS — $55,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetEARLY EXCELLENCE PROGRAM OF DENVER INC — $54,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSPRING INSTITUTE FOR INTERCULTURAL LEARNING — $54,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Partnership for Child Development — $52,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $52,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY VISITOR PROGRAM OF GARFIELD COUNTY INC — $49,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER — $48,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION — $44,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetRocky Mountain Microfinance — $44,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetDress for Success Denver — $44,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetHILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION — $42,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $40,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MATTHEWS HOUSE — $40,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPEAK VISTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER — $40,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT — $40,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC — $38,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLA PLATA FAMILY CENTERS COALITION — $38,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCREEDE EARLY LEARNING CENTER — $37,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetTRI-COUNTY FAMILY CARE CENTER INC — $37,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT INC — $36,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSAFEHOUSE DENVER INC — $36,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTINY TIM CENTER INC DBA TLC LEARNING CENTER — $35,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURES — $33,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetABILITY CONNECTION COLORADO INC — $32,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBal Swan Childrens Center — $30,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetDURANGO ADULT EDUCATION CENTER — $30,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE — $28,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $27,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY TREE INC — $25,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThompson Valley Preschool Inc — $24,500 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetTHE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $23,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA BOULDER COUNTY — $22,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES — $22,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY LEARNING CENTER — $21,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWomens Resource Center in Durango — $20,500 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetGoodwill of Colorado — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE-TRANSFORMATION AT WORK — $19,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds LA PUENTE HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds GROWING HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds Partners in Housing Inc ↗
  • Who funds MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS ↗
  • Who funds EARLY EXCELLENCE PROGRAM OF DENVER INC ↗
  • Who funds SPRING INSTITUTE FOR INTERCULTURAL LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds Community Partnership for Child Development ↗
  • Who funds FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY VISITOR PROGRAM OF GARFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Rocky Mountain Microfinance ↗
  • Who funds Dress for Success Denver ↗
  • Who funds HILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE MATTHEWS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds PEAK VISTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds LA PLATA FAMILY CENTERS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds CREEDE EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TRI-COUNTY FAMILY CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC ↗
  • Who funds TINY TIM CENTER INC DBA TLC LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHT FUTURES ↗
  • Who funds ABILITY CONNECTION COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds Bal Swan Childrens Center ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…Colorado Gives Founda…Anschutz Family Found…The Colorado Health F…Rose Community Founda…El Pomar FoundationThe Denver FoundationDaniels FundMile High United Way …Caring for Colorado F…Nathan B & Florence R…Rose Foundation
Temple Hoyne Buell FoundationCO116.6× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Daniels Fund · Mile High United Way Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Nathan B & Florence R Burt Foundation · Rose Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Sam S Bloom Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    75report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Sam S Bloom Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Sam S Bloom 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 158 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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