· Private foundation
The Willard and Roberta Block Family Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
91% of The Willard and Roberta Block Family Foundation’s FY2018 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k17 grants · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $106,087 |
| COMMUNITY FUND OF SARASOTA | $3,000 |
| THE FRESH AIR FUND | $1,200 |
| WEDU PBS | $1,200 |
| WGBH | $1,000 |
| COLUMBIA COLLEGE FUND | $1,000 |
| ANTIOCH COLLEGE | $500 |
| SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $500 |
| SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FUND | $500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SARASOTA | $200 |
| AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL | $200 |
| WUSF | $200 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $100 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $100 |
| UNICEF | $100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust and the most unlike its peers is All Faiths Food Bank Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds ANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Willard and Roberta Block Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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