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Harold C & Jacqueline F Bladel

Chicago, IL · EIN 82-6512261. Reported 78 grants totalling $654,164 to 26 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$654,164granted, 2021-2024
26organizations funded
85%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,988,695assets, 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. Harold C & Jacqueline F Bladel 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 $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $2,664 and the largest $30,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
3 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
47 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
24 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
4 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
Pines of Sarasota Fdn IncSarasota, FL$120,000442024
Forty Carrots of Sarasota IncSarasota, FL$56,000442024
Education Foundation of Sarasota CountySarasota, FL$40,000442024
Library Foundation for Sarasota CountySarasota, FL$40,000442024
Easter SealsSarasota, FL$39,000442024
All Faiths Food Bank IncSarasota, FL$35,000442024
Children First IncSarasota, FL$31,000442024
Child Protection CenterSarasota, FL$27,000332023
Samaritan Counseling Services IncSarasota, FL$25,000442024
Big Brothers Big Sisters Sun CoastVenice, FL$23,000442024
Boys & Girls ClubSarasota, FL$20,000442024
Girls Inc of Sarasota CountySarasota, FL$20,000442024
Safe Children CoalitionSarasota, FL$20,000442024
Senior Friendship Centers IncSarasota, FL$20,000332023
Suncoast Youth for ChristBradenton, FL$20,000112024
Tidewell Hospice IncSarasota, FL$17,000222023
Community Haven for Adult & ChildernSarasota, FL$15,000332023
Family Promise of South Sarasota CountyVenice, FL$15,000332023
Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast IncSarasota, FL$15,000332024
Parenting MattersSarasota, FL$15,000332024
Take Stock in Children of Sarasota CountySarasota, FL$12,500222022
Meals on Wheels Plus of Manatee IncBradenton, FL$8,000222023
Habitat for Humanity South SarasotaVenice, FL$5,664222024
Mote Marine LaboratorySarasota, FL$5,000112024
Neuro Challenge Foundation for Parkinson's IncSarasota, FL$5,000112021
Take Stock in ChildrenSarasota, FL$5,000112024

22 of 26 (85%) 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 85%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 35 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
10 grants
Human Services
9 grants
Food & Nutrition
6 grants
Youth Development
5 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202120$165,500$5,000
202220$170,000$5,000
202320$153,000$5,000
202418$165,664$8,000

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

Sarasota, FL
$582K
Venice, FL
$44K
Bradenton, FL
$28K

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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 $5,000. 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 Harold C & Jacqueline F Bladel'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: Co Northern Trust Co Po Box 80387, Chicago, IL, 60680. 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 82-6512261 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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