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Thomas C Blair 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.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$81kYouth Development$19kHuman Services$15kInternational$10kHealth$6kPublic Benefit$5kCivil Rights$5kEducation$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
8
States reached
$111k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILD WATCH$5,000
THE POINTE CHURCH$4,700
CRU$2,500
WORLD VISION$1,100
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$1,000
AGING MATTERS$1,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL$500
ST JUDE$500
Individual grant recipient$500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Z883 FM$365
GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY$300
Individual grant recipient$200
FLORIDA SHERIFF ASSOCIATION$200
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%CHRISTIAN APPLACHAIN PROJECT: $200 → 26%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $200 → 26%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $50 → 7%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $200 → 26%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $200 → 7%CHARITY WATER: $200 → 17%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $150 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%CHARITY WATER: $50 → 17%AGING MATTERS: $1k → 10%READY FOR LIFE: $200 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
OR
NJ
RI
CO
KY
VA
AZ
KS
TN
DC
HI
OK
MS
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$144k · 44 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
65

Total granted

$144k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+41%

Still filing today

41%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationInternationalHealthPublic BenefitReligionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +63%
  • HU
    HOPE UNLIMITED FAMILY CARE CENTER
    5× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue +52%
  • SMILE TRAIN INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $2k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICES OF GRANT COUNTY
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +16%
  • MH
    MAUI HUMANE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +79%
  • EI
    EMISSARY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $600

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

3
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

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

International
4
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

5
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
6
SantaFe Healthcare Inc

The mission of santafe healthcare, inc. is to serve as the not-for-profit system parent for its family of not-for-profit, mission-driven, affiliate organizations. see schedule o for continuation of the organization's mission. santafe…

Health
7
Lifewater Inc

Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.

Environment
8
Hospice of the Florida Keys Inc

To enable individuals to remain in their homes by supporting compassionate, effective, life-enhancing health and supportive services. at this time, hfk care corporation is inactive.

Human Services
9
Food for the Hungry Inc

Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…

International
10
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

11
Healthwise Incorporated

The healthwise mission is to help people make better health decisions.

Health
12
The Hospice Foundation of the Florida Suncoast Inc

The mission of suncoast hospice foundation is to advance the understanding, participation, and support of the mission and programs of suncoast hospice and its affilated organizations, honoring the community's sacred trust through sound…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Transformation Life Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterEnvironmental Conservation …Affordable Housing Developm…United Way AffiliatesSchool District FoundationsMilitary Veterans SupportCommunity Arts CentersJewish Community Organizati…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%5%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr15%20%20–35yr9%30%35–55yr12%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%4%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr15%48%20–35yr9%35%35–55yr12%10%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
17%
17,089/102,994

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

39 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 116 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
33/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF MERRIT ISLA — $33,800 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF MERRIT ISLACRU — $16,500 · OtherCRUFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — $13,200 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHCROSSWINDS YOUTH MINISTRY — $11,000 · OtherCROSSWINDS YOUTH MINISTRYADVENTURES IN MISSIONS INC — $6,900 · OtherCOMMUNITY LIFE CHURCH — $6,000 · OtherPOINTE CHURCH INC — $5,760 · OtherSALVATION ARMY — $5,200 · Other+83 more — $53,195 · Other+83 moreWORLD VISION INC — $9,253 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $600 · International+4 more — $800 · InternationalFAMILY SERVICES OF GRANT COUNTY — $1,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL OF BREVARD COUNTY INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesCharity Navigator — $700 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC — $600 · Human ServicesLIFELINE RECOVERY CENTER INC — $250 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $250 · Human ServicesREADY FOR LIFE INC — $200 · Human ServicesTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $2,950 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $1,300 · Public BenefitHOPE UNLIMITED FAMILY CARE CENTER — $2,800 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $400 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $200 · Health+1 more — $52 · HealthSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,428 · EducationMURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $200 · EducationSOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY INC — $200 · EducationThe Family Foundation of Virginia — $200 · EducationPADUCAH JUNIOR COLLEGE INC — $100 · EducationIN HIS IMAGE — $1,600 · Community Improvement
Other$151,555International$10,653Human Services$4,500Public Benefit$4,250Health$3,452Education$2,128Community Improvement$1,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWORLD VISION INC — $9,253 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $2,950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE UNLIMITED FAMILY CARE CENTER — $2,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIN HIS IMAGE INC — $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIN HIS IMAGE — $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF GRANT COUNTY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,428 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $1,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC — $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSFORMATION LIFE CENTER INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC — $760 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator — $700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC — $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HUMPHREYS COUNTY — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSurfside Players Inc — $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Family Foundation of Virginia — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOAACC Good Deeds Foundation Inc — $200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREADY FOR LIFE INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPADUCAH JUNIOR COLLEGE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPANY D — $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $52 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 WORLD VISION INC
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HOPE UNLIMITED FAMILY CARE CENTER
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC
  • Who funds IN HIS IMAGE INC
  • Who funds IN HIS IMAGE
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF GRANT COUNTY
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC
  • Who funds FLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL OF BREVARD COUNTY INC
  • Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds TRANSFORMATION LIFE CENTER INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds Charity Navigator
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC
  • Who funds EMISSARY INC
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable TrustKY13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust · Servant Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Thomas C Blair 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Florida Sheriffs Association Inc4% of income from government
  • Community Services Council of Brevard County Inc2% of income from government
  • The Children's Home Inc0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Thomas C Blair Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Thomas C Blair 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 116 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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