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Thomas and Denise Blizil Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$16k
Granted FY2022
16
Grants FY2022
16
Organizations funded FY2022
56%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$100
Largest grant, FY2022
$9,575
Organizations funded a year
7 to 18
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
6
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 56% of the organizations Thomas and Denise Blizil Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureReligionAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202216$16k56%
FY202117$19k47%
FY202018$19k67%
FY201910$18k30%
FY20187$25k14%
FY20177$12kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$54kHealth$29kPhilanthropy$8kRecreation & Sports$8kHuman Services$5kFood & Nutrition$1kCivil Rights$1kReligion$300Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
OH
CA
CO
MO
AZ
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($91k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thomas and Denise Blizil Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrue Friends: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Wind Fund Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJeffco Action Center Inc the Action Center: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCrescent Cove: $1,985 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnnandale Food Shelf: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWright County Community Action Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado People's Alliance: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rourke Family Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYouth Investment Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBuffalo Community Orchestra Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCentral Minnesota Mental Health Center: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCassia: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrossroads Animal Shelter: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAction for Children Zambia: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund Inc: $30 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 16.

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.

Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL13.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Thomas and Denise Blizil Family Foundation

How much does Thomas and Denise Blizil Family Foundation give?
Thomas and Denise Blizil Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $15,625 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Thomas and Denise Blizil Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (50%), Health (27%), Philanthropy (7%).
Who are Thomas and Denise Blizil Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: True Friends ($8k), Second Wind Fund Inc ($3k), Jeffco Action Center Inc the Action Center ($2k).
Does Thomas and Denise Blizil Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Thomas and Denise Blizil 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Thomas and Denise Blizil Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mightycause Charitable Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Thomas and Denise Blizil Family Foundation based?
Thomas and Denise Blizil Family Foundation is based in MN.

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 40 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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