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Brickman-Gross Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$132k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Environment$475kEducation$305kFood & Nutrition$112kHuman Services$105kAnimals$80kReligion$66kPhilanthropy$56kInternational$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
$2,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Stockton University Foundation$30,600
PEF Israel Endowment Funds Inc$13,000
Congregation Beth Israel$12,983
Jewish Family Service of Atlantic County$12,000
Jewish Federation of Atlantic and Cape May Counties$11,000
The Paideia School$7,000
Hackley School$3,500
Arc of Atlantic County Inc$3,000
Natural Resources Defense Council$3,000
Greenpeace$3,000
Mazon Inc A Jewish Response to Hunger$2,800
Orangutan Foundation International$2,500
Defenders of Wildlife$2,500
Humane Society of Atlantic County$2,000
Environmental Defense Fund$2,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $424k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Wounded Warrior Project: $750 → 14%The Seeing Eye: $1k → 4%Wounded Warrior Project: $500 → 14%The Seeing Eye: $500 → 4%PRIME Coalition: $100k → 8%Wounded Warrior Project: $500 → 14%The Seeing Eye: $500 → 4%PRIME Coalition Inc: $100k → 8%Wounded Warrior Project: $500 → 14%PRIME Coalition Inc: $100k → 8%PRIME Coalition Inc: $100k → 8%Covenant House: $1k → 17%Covenant House: $1k → 17%Covenant House: $500 → 17%Jewish Older Adult Services of Atlantic County: $8k → 11%Jewish Older Adult Services of Atlantic County: $3k → 11%Jewish Older Adult Services of Atlantic County: $2k → 11%Jewish Older Adult Services of Atlantic County: $2k → 11%Atlantic City Rescue Mission: $1k → 11%Atlantic City Rescue Mission: $1k → 11%Atlantic City Rescue Mission: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
DC
GA
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 51 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

51 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
21

Total granted

$1.2M
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+30%

Still filing today

96%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • PC
    PRIME COALITION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $400k · revenue +57%
  • SU
    STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $227k · revenue +105%
  • AM
    A MEANINGFUL PURPOSE INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $74k · revenue +190%

Funded once

  • TG
    The George Washington Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +30%
  • AF
    ACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +5%
  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +6%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
4
New Jersey Conservation Foundation

Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…

Environment
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
7
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
8
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
9
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
10
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
11
Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment
12
The Wildlife Society

The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prime Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Usher Syndrome Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Community FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Community Food PantriesIndependent K-12 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCancer Support ServicesDance Arts OrganizationsYouth Development CentersYouth Sports ProgramsJewish Community Organizati…Food Banks and Pantries
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%42%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%33%10–20yr16%3%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%20%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/65
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,500

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
55/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $227,320 · OtherSTOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONCONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL — $65,683 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH ISRAELJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ATLANTIC COUNTY INC — $58,930 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ATLANTIC COUNTY INC+38 more — $174,245 · Other+38 morePRIME COALITION INC — $400,000 · Human ServicesPRIME COALITION INC+5 more — $23,650 · Human Services+5 moreA MEANINGFUL PURPOSE INC — $74,100 · AnimalsA MEANINGF…AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · AnimalsAFRICAN WI…Defenders of Wildlife — $10,000 · AnimalsDefenders …JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $7,500 · AnimalsJANE GOODA…Marine Mammal Stranding Center — $6,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF ATLANTIC COUNTY — $6,000 · Animals+2 more — $6,000 · AnimalsPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $30,600 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF ATLANTIC AND CAPE MAY COUNTIES — $18,180 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION FOUNDATION OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND — $18,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY — $3,600 · PhilanthropyNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $12,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $8,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $7,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $6,500 · EnvironmentThe Cousteau Society Inc — $5,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN WATER FUND — $4,500 · EnvironmentPINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE — $4,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Environment+3 more — $3,500 · EnvironmentTHE MIQUON SCHOOL — $28,800 · EducationThe George Washington University — $5,000 · EducationACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS — $5,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College — $2,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $1,500 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationJewish Community Center of Atlantic County — $27,750 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $6,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION — $1,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$526,178Human Services$423,650Animals$119,600Philanthropy$75,380Environment$52,500Education$43,300Recreation & Sports$35,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPRIME COALITION INC — $400,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSTOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $227,320 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetA MEANINGFUL PURPOSE INC — $74,100 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ATLANTIC COUNTY INC — $58,930 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $30,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIQUON SCHOOL — $28,800 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJewish Community Center of Atlantic County — $27,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF ATLANTIC AND CAPE MAY COUNTIES — $18,180 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION FOUNDATION OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND — $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $17,125 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH OLDER ADULT SERVICES OF ATLANTIC COUNTY — $13,900 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL — $13,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHACKLEY SCHOOL — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE INC — $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION — $11,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger — $10,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Friends of Jean Webster Inc — $6,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetThe Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School — $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Mammal Stranding Center — $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF ATLANTIC COUNTY — $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe George Washington University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF ATLANTIC COUNTY INC — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY — $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoard of Jewish Education of Atlantic Co — $3,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPANTHERA CORPORATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC CITY RESCUE MISSION INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $2,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Oceanfirst FoundationKatz H L FndnBristol-Myers Squibb …Community Food Bank O…United Way of Greater…The Philadelphia Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Federation of …John and Nancy Sykes …The Azeez FoundationKranzdorf Family Foun…
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ25.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Oceanfirst Foundation · Katz H L Fndn · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Federation of Atlantic and Cape May Counties · John and Nancy Sykes Foundation Incorporated · The Azeez Foundation · Kranzdorf Family Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Brickman-Gross Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Pinelands Preservation Alliance — 35% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Marine Mammal Stranding Center — 10% of income from government
  • Jewish Family Services of Atlantic County Inc — 6% of income from government
  • New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% of income from government
  • The Arc of Atlantic County Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines