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.

The Susan and Eliot Black Foundation

The Susan and Eliot Black Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$127k

Largest

01What it funds

0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$282kCrime & Legal$151kCivil Rights$150kHealth$136kArts & Culture$108kFood & Nutrition$63kRecreation & Sports$51kInternational$32kOther$0

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $16k
$10k–50k6 grants · $90k
$50k–250k1 grant · $127k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UJA-JCC GREENWICH	$127,300
INNOCENCE PROJECT	$25,000
EVERYTOWN SUPPORT FOR GUN SAFETY	$25,000
EMUNAH OF AMERICA	$10,000
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN	$10,000
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR	$10,000
THE PUBLIC THEATER	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL	$3,600
Individual grant recipient	$3,000
Individual grant recipient	$3,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$910k · 26 repeat orgs$220k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$910k

$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

+2%

Still filing today

58%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsInternationalOther

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

UF
UJA FEDERATION OF GREENWICH INC
4× · 2022–2025 · $275k · revenue +8%
AI
Achilles International Inc
6× · 2019–2024 · $50k · revenue +34%
HR
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC
4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +29%

Funded once

BC
BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE
one grant, 2019 · $50k
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +28%
CP
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVATORY
one grant, 2024 · $15k

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.

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

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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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts North America Inc

The specific purposes for which bafta na is organized is to promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among individuals employed professionally in film and television production and allied industries, to create and…

Arts & Culture

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

American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International

The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education

Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture

Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy

International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International

Indivisible Project

Indivisible project's mission is to cultivate and lift up a grassroots movement of local groups to defeat the trump agenda, elect progressive leaders, and realize bold progressive policies.

Civil Rights

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uja Federation of Greenwich Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bucks County Playhouse Theater Inc. 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

33 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. 33 of the 62 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/33

Grantees still filing

19/33

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$753,360Human Services$136,360Health$120,000Arts & Culture$43,000Civil Rights$35,000Crime & Legal$25,000International$17,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Black IV IncCT17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Susan and Eliot Black Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Susan and Eliot Black Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home