Ellen & Ronald Block Family Foundation
Palm Beach, FL · EIN 20-2067790. Reported 310 grants totalling $4,878,915 to 110 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". Ellen & Ronald Block Family Foundation checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
3 of the organizations Ellen & Ronald Block Family Foundation funded make grants themselves, and it reported 21 grants totalling $189,000 to them. That is 5% of the $3,700,655 of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc | federated giving programme | Florida | $92,000 | 9 | 5 | 2025 | Its form does not ask |
| Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc | federated giving programme | Florida | $60,500 | 6 | 5 | 2025 | Its form does not ask |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | federated giving programme | Illinois | $36,500 | 6 | 3 | 2025 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $500,000.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CATS2 Foundation | Sunnyvale, CA | $1,000,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jdc- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee | New York, NY | $520,450 | 28 | 5 | 2025 |
| Norton Museum of Art | West Palm Beach, FL | $230,778 | 7 | 5 | 2025 |
| Nyu Langone - Hassenfeld Children's Hospital | New York, NY | $165,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Society of the Four Arts | Palm Beach, FL | $131,000 | 7 | 5 | 2025 |
| Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago - Ellie Fund Daf | Chicago, IL | $125,160 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Israel Policy Forum | New York, NY | $125,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Hillel International | Washington, DC | $116,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Literacy Academy Collective | New York, NY | $110,000 | 3 | 2 | 2025 |
| Jewish Council for Public Affairs | New York, NY | $93,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ladies of Virtue | Chicago, IL | $80,850 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Repair the World | New York, NY | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Voices for Children Foundation | Miami, FL | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Berkshire School | Sheffield, MA | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Swipe Out Hunger | Los Angeles, CA | $61,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Town of Palm Beach United Way | Palm Beach, FL | $60,500 | 6 | 5 | 2025 |
| Dream | New York, NY | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Jafco | Sunrise, FL | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Voices for Children Foundation | Chicago, IL | $57,750 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Jewish Federation of Palm Beach | West Palm Beach, FL | $56,000 | 7 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Friends of the Israel Museum | New York, NY | $55,500 | 5 | 4 | 2025 |
| Feeding South Florida | Pembroke Park, FL | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Friends of Israel Sci-Tech Schools | New York, NY | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Keshet | Northbrook, IL | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hias | Silver Spring, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Museum of Jewish Heritage | New York, NY | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Israel on Campus Coalition | Washington, DC | $49,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| US Holocaust Memorial Museum | Washington, DC | $46,800 | 6 | 4 | 2025 |
| New Hope Charities | West Palm Beach, FL | $41,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Arts of Life | Chicago, IL | $40,500 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Riverdale Country School | Bronx, NY | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Icivics | Cambridge, MA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| National Military Family Association | Alexandria, VA | $37,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nyu Langone - Faces | Nrw York, NY | $37,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | Chicago, IL | $36,500 | 6 | 3 | 2025 |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | New York, NY | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County | West Palm Beach, FL | $36,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago - Israel Emergency Fund | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | 3 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marlene Meyerson Jcc Manhattan | New York, NY | $35,000 | 3 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Chicago Medicine | Chicago, IL | $33,000 | 7 | 5 | 2025 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | Chicago, IL | $30,750 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Miami Children's Museum | Miami, FL | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Pennsylvania | Walnut Street Su, PA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $28,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Jewish Family Service La | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Thresholds | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| USC- Shoah Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Women Moving Millions | New York, NY | $21,692 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse | Delray Beach, FL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Food Bank for Nyc | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Institute for Currriculum Services | Berkeley, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Midwest Access Project | Berwyn, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Project Kesher | New York, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Reading and Writing Ventures Foundation | Greenfield, MA | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Resetting the Table | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| World Central Kitchen | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Appeal of Conscience Foundation | New York, NY | $15,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Beit T'shuvah | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ilinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center | Skokie, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Nyu Langone Health | Nrw York, NY | $15,000 | 3 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tufts University | Boston, MA | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Windward School | White Plains, NY | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Northwestern University -Global Health Initiative | Evanston, IL | $13,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Aspen Institute | Washington, DC | $12,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Center for Hearing & Communication | New York, NY | $12,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse (avda) | Delray Beach, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| American University | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Facing History and Ourselves | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Palm Beach County | Greenacres, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Heartland Human Care Services | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Milagro Center | Delray Beach, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Operation Homefront | San Antonio, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Planned Parenthood of South East and North Florida | West Palm Beach, FL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Projectcamp | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St Louis Region | St Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Palm Beach Country Club Foundation | Palm Beach, FL | $9,000 | 6 | 5 | 2025 |
| Brown School of Public Health | Providence, RI | $8,500 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities -Toronto | Toronto, Ontario | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Chicago Medical Center | Chicago, IL | $8,185 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Making Headway | Chappaqua, NY | $7,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Children's Tumor Foundation | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Evans Scholars Foundation | Glenview, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Forward Association Inc | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Food Rescue US | Stamford, CT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| My Friends Place | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Oyc Miami | Miami, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Planned Parenthood | West Palm Beach, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Canada | Toronto, Ontario | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tufts - Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy | Boston, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tufts University - Friedman School | Boston, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| University of Chicago Medicine Forefront Fund | Chicago, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| US Holocaust Museum | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | Jacksonville, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northwestern University - Institute for Global Health | Evanston, IL | $4,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Community Health Chicago | Chicago, IL | $2,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Free Root Operation | Chicago, IL | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Meals on Wheels of Palm Beaches | West Palm Beach, FL | $2,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History | Philadelphia, PA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Promise Fund of Florida | Palm Beach, FL | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Mazon | Los Angeles, CA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Morselife Foundation | West Palm Beach, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Black Child Development Institute | Silver Spring, MD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cox Science Center and Aquarium | West Palm Beach, FL | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Palm Beach Atlantic University | West Palm Beach, FL | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Planned Parenthood of Florida | West Palm Beach, FL | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Stanford University - Graduate School of Business | Stanford, CT | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Armory Art Center | West Palm Beach, FL | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Take Stock in Children Palm Beach County | Palm Beach, FL | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
59 of 110 (54%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 68%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
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.
- CATS2 Foundation
RESTRICTED TO OWL FOR SCHOOLS - Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago - Ellie Fund Daf
DAF GRANTS: RESTRICTED TO CAUSES, ISSUES, INITIATIVES, PROGRAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT EDUCATE AND ENABLE GIRLS AND WOMEN TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL - Norton Museum of Art
Restricted to support three afterschool arts programs for children at needy schools and two arts workshops at Rinconcito del Sol - Jdc- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Restricted to Trauma Training for mental health Center staff in Ukraine - Hias
Restricted to the Afghan Refugee US Resettlement basic needs support - Nyu Langone - Hassenfeld Children's Hospital
RESTRICTED TO HASSENFELD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 193 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 61 | $729,095 | $5,000 |
| 2022 | 66 | $905,678 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 63 | $1,199,100 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 62 | $1,327,942 | $10,000 |
| 2025 | 58 | $717,100 | $8,750 |
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
34% of its giving went to organizations in New York.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Ellen & Ronald Block Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 2 North Breakers Row, Palm Beach, FL, 33480. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
EIN 20-2067790 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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