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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.

$116k
Granted FY2018
18
Grants FY2018
17
Organizations funded FY2018
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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.

Median grant, FY2018
$500
Largest grant, FY2018
$106,087
States reached, FY2018
6
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Willard and Roberta Block Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFresh Air Fund: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida West Coast Public Broadcasting Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAntioch College Corporation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetScience & Environment Council of Southwest Florida Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmnesty International of the USA Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAll Faiths Food Bank Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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Find your warmest path to The Willard and Roberta Block Family 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.

About The Willard and Roberta Block Family Foundation

How much does The Willard and Roberta Block Family Foundation give?
The Willard and Roberta Block Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $116,187 in its FY2018 IRS filing.
What does The Willard and Roberta Block Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2018, its largest causes are Philanthropy (94%), Arts & Culture (2%), Education (1%).
Who are The Willard and Roberta Block Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2018: Fresh Air Fund ($1k), Florida West Coast Public Broadcasting Inc ($1k), Antioch College Corporation ($500).
Does The Willard and Roberta Block Family 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.
Where is The Willard and Roberta Block Family Foundation based?
The Willard and Roberta Block Family Foundation is based in FL.

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 18 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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