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Walter & Adi Blum Foundation Inc

Palm Beach Gardens, FL · EIN 65-0008826. Reported 69 grants totalling $1,972,680 to 63 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$7,500median grant
$1,972,680granted, 2021-2024
63organizations funded
0%of grantees funded again the next year
$14.3Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Walter & Adi Blum Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $7,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $2,000 and the largest $513,300. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
14 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
26 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
24 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$100,000 and Up
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Charitable ContributionsAttached, FL$1,459,380332024
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center TampaTampa, FL$25,000112021
Palm Beach County Football LeagueWest Palm Beach, FL$25,000112021
Caridad CenterBoynton Beach, FL$15,300112021
Costal Middle and High SchoolLake Park, FL$15,000212021
Eat Better Live BetterDelray Beach, FL$15,000112021
Florida Outreach Center for the BliPalm Springs, FL$15,000112021
Israel Tennis & Education CentersNew York, NY$15,000112021
Junior Achievement of the Palm BeacWest Palm Beach, FL$15,000112021
American Association of CaregivingBoca Raton, FL$10,000112021
Angel Flight Southeast IncLeesburg, FL$10,000112021
Cystic Fibrosis FoundationWest Palm Beach, FL$10,000212021
Deporres Place Adult Literacy CenteWest Palm Beach, FL$10,000112021
Dress for Success Palm BeachesPalm Springs, FL$10,000112021
El Sol Jupiter's Neighborhood ResoJupiter, FL$10,000112021
Feeding South ForidaBoynton Beach, FL$10,000112021
Genesis Assistance DogsWest Palm Beach, FL$10,000112021
Habitat for Humanity of Palm BeachWest Palm Beach, FL$10,000112021
Hacer Ministry CorpWest Palm Beach, FL$10,000112021
Hope Community Center ApokaApopka, FL$10,000112021
Jack the Bike Man Children's CharitWest Palm Beach, FL$10,000112021
Jeff IndustriesHypoluxo, FL$10,000112021
Morningday Communty SolitonsWest Palm Beach, FL$10,000112021
Paws for LibertyLake Worth, FL$10,000112021
The Children's Home Society of FlorWest Palm Beach, FL$10,000112021
The Giving Closet ProjectJacksonville, FL$10,000112021
The Women's CircleBoynton Beach, FL$10,000112021
Tomorrow's Rainbow Inc Coconut CreCoconut Creek, FL$10,000212021
Vita NovaWest Palm Beach, FL$10,000112021
The Arc of the Glades Inc Belle GBelle Glade, FL$8,000112021
211 Palm Beach Treasure Coast LanLantana, FL$7,500112021
Alliance of Women Executives IncBoynton Beach, FL$7,500112021
Center of Trauma Counseling in GreGreenacres, FL$7,500112021
Milagro Foundation Delray BeachDelray Beach, FL$7,500112021
Student AcesPalm Beavh Gardens, FL$7,500112021
Town of Palm BeachPalm Beach, FL$7,500112021
Unicorn Children's FoundationBoca Raton, FL$7,500112021
Wounded Veterans Relief FundNorth Palm Beach, FL$7,500112021
YMCA of the Palm BeachesWest Palm Beach, FL$7,500112021
Family Promise of North Central PalWest Palm Beach, FL$5,000112021
Grandma's Place IncRoyal Palm Beach, FL$5,000112021
Kidz CountTamarac, FL$5,000112021
Memory Trees CorpWest Palm Beach, FL$5,000112021
Miami Lighthouse for the BlindMiami, FL$5,000112021
Opportunity Inc Early Learning CenWest Palm Beach, FL$5,000112021
Pace Center for Girls Palm BeachPalm Springs, FL$5,000112021
Palm Beach Rams Football and CheeriWest Palm Beach, FL$5,000112021
Police Athletic League of West PalmWest Palm Beach, FL$5,000112021
Quantum HouseWest Palm Beach, FL$5,000212021
R U 4 Me Rescue Inc Lake WorthLake Worth, FL$5,000112021
Sea Turtle Adventures IncWest Palm Beach, FL$5,000112021
Take Stock in ChildrenWest Palm Beach, FL$5,000112021
Twin Palm Centers for the DisabledBoca Raton, FL$5,000112021
Urban Youth ImpactWest Palm Beach, FL$5,000112021
Panther Ridge Conservation CenterLoxahatchee, FL$3,500112021
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Palm BeWest Palm Beach, FL$2,500112021
Boca Ballet Theater CompanyBoca Raton, FL$2,500112021
Milagro Foundation DelrayDelray Beach, FL$2,500112021
Passion for PawsWest Palm Beach, FL$2,500112021
Preservation Foundation of Palm BeaPalm Beach, FL$2,500112021
The New Studio for the Visual ArtsJupiter, FL$2,500112021
Josh's Benches for Awareness CorpRoyal Palm Beach, FL$2,000112021
Stop Bullying Now FndLake Worth, FL$2,000112021

1 of 63 (2%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 0%, across 1 year-to-year transition. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 25 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
8 grants
Youth Development
3 grants
Animal Welfare
3 grants
Education
2 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Diseases & Disorders
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Employment
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202166$513,300$7,500
20221$467,500$467,500
20231$478,580$478,580
20241$513,300$513,300

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 99% of this one's giving went to organizations in Florida. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Florida
$2.0M
New York
$15K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $7,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Florida.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Walter & Adi Blum Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 33598, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, 33420. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 65-0008826 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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