Connecticut · Private foundation
The Susan and Eliot Black Foundation
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.
- $233k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $127,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 25
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations The Susan and Eliot Black Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $233k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $214k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $228k | 48% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $135k | 68% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $118k | 82% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $75k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $127k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uja Federation of Greenwich Inc | $274,980 | 4 | 2% |
| The Innocence Project Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Thanc Foundation Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Neighbor to Neighbor Inc | $52,630 | 6 | 0% |
| Achilles International Inc | $50,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Human Rights Campaign Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greenwich Hospital | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Met Council Inc | $17,500 | 3 | 7% |
| Baby Quest Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($317k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Susan and Eliot Black Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Black IV Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
Compare The Susan and Eliot Black Foundation with peer funders
About The Susan and Eliot Black Foundation
- How much does The Susan and Eliot Black Foundation give?
- The Susan and Eliot Black Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $232,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 25 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Susan and Eliot Black Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (25%), Crime & Legal (13%), Civil Rights (13%).
- Who are The Susan and Eliot Black Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Uja Federation of Greenwich Inc ($275k), The Innocence Project Inc ($125k), The Thanc Foundation Inc ($85k).
- Does The Susan and Eliot Black Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Susan and Eliot Black Foundation 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 Susan and Eliot Black Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Black IV Inc, Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is The Susan and Eliot Black Foundation based?
- The Susan and Eliot Black Foundation is based in CT.
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