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Uw Robert Black Charitable Fdn at a glance

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Uw Robert Black Charitable Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$470k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$144k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.6MHealth$1.5MScience & Tech$15k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $439k
$72,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Massachusetts Institute of Technology$144,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$79,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$72,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$72,000
University of Michigan Scholarship Fund$72,000
DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$30,730
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL: $59k → 8%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $75k → 16%LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $76k → 7%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $78k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $54k → 10%LUSTGARTEN FDN FOR PANCREATIC CANCER: $58k → 6%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH LUNG CANCER: $55k → 17%University of Michigan Scholarship Fund: $72k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $79k → 11%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH LUNG CANCER: $50k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $79k → 9%PRINCETON UNVERSITY: $70k → 11%WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL: $56k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $72k → 16%LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $64k → 7%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $56k → 10%LUSTGARTEN FDN FOR PANCREATIC CANCER: $50k → 6%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH LUNG CANCER: $50k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $76k → 11%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH LUNG CANCER: $23k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $76k → 9%PRINCETON UNVERSITY: $59k → 11%LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $54k → 7%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC: $50k → 6%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH LUNG CANCER: $40k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $64k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FDN: $74k → 9%PRINCETON UNVERSITY: $54k → 11%LUSTGARTEN FDN FOR PANCREATIC CANCER: $45k → 6%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $54k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FDN: $62k → 9%LUSTGARTEN FDN FOR PANCREATIC CANCER: $40k → 6%DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $82k → 17%DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $80k → 17%DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $70k → 17%DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH: $63k → 17%DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $38k → 17%DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $31k → 17%DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $27k → 17%ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $97k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $78k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $76k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $64k → 17%ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $62k → 17%ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $59k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $56k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $54k → 17%DANA FARBER CANCER: $30k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NC
FL
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 9 repeat orgs$609k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$2.1M
$393k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
-4%

Still filing today

56%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthScience & TechOther
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

  • CR
    CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $328k · revenue +1%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $273k · revenue +1%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    3× · 2020–2022 · $183k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2024 · $75k
  • DR
    DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH
    one grant, 2019 · $63k
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2020 · $56k
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.

1
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
4
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
11
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Princeton University; the most unlike its peers is University of Washington Foundation. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $327,500 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH LUNG CANCER: $217,500 · OtherNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH LUNG CANCERLUSTGARTEN FDN FOR PANCREATIC CANCER: $192,500 · OtherLUSTGARTEN FDN FOR PANCREATIC CANCERWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL: $115,000 · OtherWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICALMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $75,000 · OtherUniversity of Michigan Scholarship Fund: $72,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $72,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY: $72,000 · OtherDAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH: $63,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $56,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $54,000 · OtherLUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC: $50,000 · Other+4 more: $80,000 · Other+4 moreUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $291,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONDUKE UNIVERSITY: $273,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $272,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNI…THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $218,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITYThe Trustees of Princeton University: $183,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton UniversityMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $144,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION: $328,188 · HealthCANCER RESE…The Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $15,000 · Science & Tech
Other$1,446,500Education$1,381,000Health$328,188Science & Tech$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION: $328,188 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $291,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $273,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $272,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $218,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $183,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $144,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Uw Robert Black Charitable Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Uw Robert Black Charitable Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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