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Brotman 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.

$672k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.9MArts & Culture$847kEducation$345kCommunity Improvement$265kEnvironment$210kHuman Services$65kEmployment$25kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $47k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY$500,000
MARYS PLACE$100,000
SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET$27,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$20,000
WORLD JUSTICE PROJECT$5,000
SUPPORT OF OLD LADY ARTISTS$5,000
PILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL$5,000
HENRY ART GALLERY$5,000
ARTSFUND$5,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 9% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK: $30k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $115k → 14%SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $365k → 9%LYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK: $15k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $20k → 14%FIND VENTURES CO: $200k → 9%LYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK: $15k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $20k → 14%FARESTART: $15k → 9%LYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK: $15k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $15k → 14%CHILDHAVEN: $65k → 9%LYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK: $15k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $10k → 14%FIND VENTURES: $65k → 9%LYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK: $5k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $10k → 14%FARESTART: $10k → 9%SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET: $27k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $10k → 14%PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET: $200k → 9%SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET: $21k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $10k → 14%PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET: $40k → 9%SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET: $17k → 17%WORLD JUSTICE PROJECT: $5k → 14%UW FOUNDATION: $250k → 9%SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET: $17k → 17%HENRY ART GALLERY: $5k → 9%SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET: $17k → 17%ARTSFUND: $5k → 9%SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET: $12k → 17%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $500k → 9%AMERICAN SCHOOL OF BALLET: $10k → 17%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $500k → 9%THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1k → 17%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $500k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $500k → 9%UNITED WAY: $300k → 9%UNITED WAY: $300k → 9%UNITED WAY: $300k → 9%KCTS 9 TELEVISION: $1k → 9%PILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL: $5k → 9%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.
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 8 repeat orgs$817k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$3.8M
$692k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+46%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyEmploymentEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2018–2020 · $240k · revenue +7%
  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +62%
  • SO
    SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $111k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • SA
    SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
    one grant, 2017 · $365k · revenue +0%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +46%
  • C
    CHILDHAVENgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue +31%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
3
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
5
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
6
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
7
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
8
Washington Performing Arts Society

Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…

Arts & Culture
9
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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10
The Northwest School of the Arts Humanities and Environment

We offer an outstanding international college preparatory program for grades 6-12.

Education
11
New York Academy of Art

The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…

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12
Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc

To create, to present, to preserve, and to extend the great repertoire of classical dancing through exciting performances and educational programming of the highest quality, presented to the widest possible audience. american ballet…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artsfund; the most unlike its peers is Support of Old Lady Artists. 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

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 20 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTYUNITED WAY: $900,000 · OtherUNITED WAYCHILDHAVEN: $65,000 · OtherCHILDHAVEN+6 more: $47,000 · OtherSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $365,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE ART MUSEU…PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $240,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC NORTHWEST…SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $111,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF AMERICA…+3 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationLYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK: $95,000 · EducationFIND VENTURES CO: $265,000 · Community ImprovementWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $210,000 · EnvironmentMaris Place: $100,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$2,000,000Other$1,012,000Arts & Culture$731,000Education$345,000Community Improvement$265,000Environment$210,000Youth Development$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $2,000,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $365,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFIND VENTURES CO: $265,000 over 2y, 65% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $240,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $210,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $111,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMaris Place: $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetLYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK: $95,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDHAVEN: $65,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFARESTART: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUPPORT OF OLD LADY ARTISTS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetARTSFUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD JUSTICE PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Brotman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brotman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Brotman Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Brotman Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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