Morton K. & Jane Blaustein Foundation

Morton K. & Jane Blaustein Foundation

The Morton K. & Jane Blaustein Foundation was established in Baltimore to channel a share of the Blaustein family's oil-and-gas wealth — originating from the American Oil Company (AMOCO), founded by patriarch Jacob Blaustein and later sold to BP — into structured philanthropy. Jeanne P. Blaustein serves as President and Trustee, while Susan M. Blaustein acts as Vice President and Trustee. The foundation operates alongside the family's main investment and operating entity, American Trading and Production Corporation (ATAPCO), which manages the broader asset portfolio including commercial real estate holdings such as the Blaustein Building at One South Street in Baltimore, residential development in Charlotte, and industrial parcels in White Marsh, Maryland and Bristol Township, Pennsylvania. The foundation pursues a bifurcated strategy. On the endowment side, it maintains a traditional diversified portfolio to preserve intergenerational purchasing power for grantmaking. On the programmatic side, it makes direct grants in three principal areas: educational equity in the United States, with a focus on Baltimore public schools and statewide education reform; global women's health and human rights through Susan Blaustein's WomenStrong International, which operates learning labs in Ghana, Kenya, India, and Guatemala; and environmental conservation grants tied to the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The foundation does not publicly disclose its total deployment or specific investment allocations. Jeanne Blaustein also serves as Board Chair of Reimagine End of Life, a nonprofit exploring community-driven approaches to mortality and grief, and sits on the board of Jonas Philanthropies, a healthcare-focused grantmaking entity. Susan Blaustein is a member of Women Moving Millions, a network of philanthropists committing $1 million or more to women's causes, and founded WomenStrong International as a spinoff initiative now housed within the foundation's grantmaking umbrella. The foundation's structural differentiator is its integration of a direct-operating nonprofit — WomenStrong International — within the grantmaking architecture, rather than funding it as a third-party grantee. This arrangement, combined with ATAPCO's parallel stewardship of the family's real assets and legacy energy holdings, creates a hybrid structure where the philanthropic entity controls its own programmatic execution while remaining financially tethered to a separate family office. The result is unusual grantee intimacy: the foundation's Vice President is also the Executive Director of its largest programmatic vehicle.