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Brad Ginsberg Family Foundation at a glance

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Brad Ginsberg Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$144kPhilanthropy$102kHealth$95kFood & Nutrition$73kArts & Culture$23kYouth Development$21kEmployment$18kReligion$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$75,000
Individual grant recipient$21,500
EMORY LAW SCHOOL$10,000
BEST FOOD FORWARD$10,000
BOCA HELPING HANDS$2,500
FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS$500
JOEY P CORY FOUNDATION$300
KRAVIS CENTER$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ROOTS & WINGS: $5k → 4%ANTIOCH TRAVELING CLOSET: $4k → 8%BOCA WEST COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FUND: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
OH
NJ
UT
CO
MD
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$370k · 13 repeat orgs$235k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
34

Total granted

$370k
$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+12%

Still filing today

46%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • EU
    Emory University
    3× · 2017–2019 · $73k · revenue +80%
  • SD
    Sweet Dream Makers Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +60%
  • BH
    BAL HARBOUR POLICE LEGACY FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $23k · revenue +408% · 35% of their budget

Funded once

  • MS
    MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • MC
    MORIAH CONGREGATION
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • BO
    Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Miami Children's Health System Inc

Nicklaus Children's Health System is the region's only healthcare system exclusively for children. Our mission is to inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child. TO PERFORM THE FUNCTIONS OF, OR TO…

Health
2
Orlando Health Foundation Inc

The mission of the orlando health foundation is to support the strategic priorities of orlando health through philanthropy. this is accomplished through special events and annual major and planned gift fundraising efforts.

Health
3
The Boca Raton Foundation for Charitable Giving Inc

The boca raton foundation for charitable giving is an associate-driven philanthropic initiative created to strengthen south florida communities through targeted financial support. the foundation provides grants to local charities whose…

Human Services
4
Stop Children's Cancer of Palm Beach County

To conduct fundraising activities to support cancer research and awareness concentrating on providing grants to research hospitals and institutions focused on pediatric oncology.

Health
5
Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of boca raton regional hospital is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is…

Health
6
University of Miami
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7
Variety Children's Hospital

To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.

Health
8
Pediatric Oncology Support Team Inc

The mission of post is to help local children and their families courageously fight cancer by giving them compassionate emotional and financial support. post's multidisciplinary team of dedicated, caring professionals provide free,…

Health
9
The Boca Fund Inc
Animals
10
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
11
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
12
South Florida Day of Caring Inc

To educate, empower and give hope to everyone touched by breast cancer.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roots & Wings Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEST FOOD FORWARD: $70,130 · OtherBEST FOOD FORWARDIndividual grant recipient: $63,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYSPIRIT OF GIVING: $36,735 · OtherSPIRIT OF GIVINGGETHIREDMIAMI INC: $17,500 · OtherGETHIREDMIAMI INCMORIAH CONGREGATION: $13,075 · Other+32 more: $71,438 · Other+32 moreEmory University: $73,000 · EducationEmory Universit…SAN JUAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationSAN JUAN PUBLIC…+1 more: $500 · EducationBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $75,000 · Community ImprovementBoca Raton Reg…Sweet Dream Makers Inc: $54,600 · PhilanthropySweet Dream …BOCA RATON POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $10,725 · PhilanthropyBOCA RATON P…BAL HARBOUR POLICE LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $450 · Arts & CultureBurr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSPIRIT OF GIVING NETWORK INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthCAMP H-TOWN: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · Health
Other$321,878Education$83,500Community Improvement$75,000Philanthropy$65,325Arts & Culture$23,450Youth Development$20,000Health$15,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEmory University: $73,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSweet Dream Makers Inc: $54,600 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetBAL HARBOUR POLICE LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetBOCA RATON POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $10,725 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetTHE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPIRIT OF GIVING NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSAN JUAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetOperation 120 Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCAMP H-TOWN: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOCA HELPING HANDS INC: $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION FKA BOCA WEST COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $417 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Judo Inc: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO3.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brad Ginsberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brad Ginsberg Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    9get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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