Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Walter a Bloedorn Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $728k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2024
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 46
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Walter a Bloedorn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 65 | $728k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $385k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $390k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $409k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $357k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $353k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $343k | 23% |
| FY2017 | 35 | $337k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Ivymount School Inc | $165,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena Inc | $130,000 | 8 | 3% |
| The Family Place | $115,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Educare DC | $110,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation | $105,000 | 3 | 0% |
| First Colony Foundation | $85,000 | 8 | 42% |
| A Wider Circle Inc | $82,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The DC Central Kitchen Inc | $75,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Child and Family Network Centers Inc | $70,000 | 7 | 1% |
| House of Ruth | $57,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 91 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Walter a Bloedorn Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 83 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · William S Abell Foundation Inc · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Walter a Bloedorn Foundation
- How much does Walter a Bloedorn Foundation give?
- Walter a Bloedorn Foundation reported 65 grants totaling $727,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Walter a Bloedorn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (29%), Human Services (23%), Health (16%).
- Who are Walter a Bloedorn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Ivymount School Inc ($165k), Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena Inc ($130k), The Family Place ($115k).
- Does Walter a Bloedorn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Walter a Bloedorn Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Walter a Bloedorn Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Clark-Winchcole Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation.
- Where is Walter a Bloedorn Foundation based?
- Walter a Bloedorn Foundation is based in DC.
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