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Carl and Mary Gross Family Foundation at a glance

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Carl and Mary Gross Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$108k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$406kEducation$237kPhilanthropy$135kHealth$88kYouth Development$30kArts & Culture$23kCommunity Improvement$16kHuman Services$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
$1,750
Median grant
6
States reached
$260k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIKVOT$25,000
The Trustees of the University of Penn$22,000
Chabad of the Shore$16,428
Jewish Federation in the Heart of NJ$15,500
MONMOUTH COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$6,800
COUNCIL OF JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS OF NASSAU COUNTY$5,000
LEV CHABAD$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,800
CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND$2,500
CHHANGE$1,750
Chabad Lubavitch of Western Monmouth Co$1,250
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$1,000
AXELROD PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$1,000
Simon Wiesenthal Center$500
JHMOMC$360
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 (FY18–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Boys Town: $140 → 12%COUNCIL OF JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS OF NASSAU COUNTY: $5k → 6%Wounded Warrior Project: $100 → 14%Boys Town: $140 → 12%Mercy Center: $1k → 6%Mercy Center: $360 → 6%Mercy Center: $330 → 6%Mercy Center: $250 → 6%Mercy Center: $180 → 6%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
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
DC
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$650k · 39 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
23

Total granted

$650k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

49%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $51k · revenue +14%
  • TA
    THE ARC OF MONMOUTH INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +56%
  • BABSON COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • BF
    Brothers for Life
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • Z
    ZAKA
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • PF
    PATHWAYS FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
2
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
7
Beth Israel Medical Center

Since its founding, over 120 years ago, as a medical dispensary to meet the needs of the impoverished and underserved jewish community of the lower east side, beth israel medical center has been committed to the care of persons of all…

Health
8
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
The Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount sinai is committed to the advancement of the art and science of medicine through clinical excellence. the central mission consists of high-quality patient care and teaching conducted in an atmosphere of social concern and scholarly…

Health
12
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monmouth Medical Center Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Council of Jewish Organizations of Nassau County Inc. 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

35 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. 35 of the 70 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
19/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Chabad of the Shore: $337,608 · OtherChabad of the ShoreIndividual grant recipient: $30,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE ARC OF MONMOUTH INC: $26,000 · OtherTIKVOT: $25,000 · Other+36 more: $129,680 · Other+36 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $175,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY …SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $51,000 · EducationSUFFOLK UNIVERSITYBABSON COLLEGE: $16,000 · EducationBABSON COLLEGE+2 more: $7,150 · EducationTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF MIDDLESEX & MONMOUTH COUNTIES A NJ NONPROFIT CORP: $134,958 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FED…SPECIAL STRIDES INC: $29,950 · HealthLEV CHABAD INC: $23,500 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND: $2,500 · Health+6 more: $5,000 · HealthBrothers for Life: $10,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $6,500 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureAXELROD PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $800 · Arts & CultureBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $5,900 · InternationalPATHWAYS FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE: $5,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,180 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,000 · InternationalTHE COUNCIL OF JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS OF NASSAU COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesMERCY CENTER CORPORATION: $2,470 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $280 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesMONMOUTH BEACH FIRE COMPANY INC: $5,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$548,388Education$249,150Philanthropy$134,958Health$60,950Arts & Culture$25,300International$14,080Human Services$7,850Public Safety & Disaster$5,000

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $175,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF MIDDLESEX & MONMOUTH COUNTIES A NJ NONPROFIT CORP: $134,958 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $51,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL STRIDES INC: $29,950 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ARC OF MONMOUTH INC: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEV CHABAD INC: $23,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRutgers Hillel Corporation: $14,800 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBrothers for Life: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONMOUTH COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $6,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $6,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $5,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $5,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAYS FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMONMOUTH BEACH FIRE COMPANY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY FORGE MILITARY ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAXELROD PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY CENTER CORPORATION: $2,470 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,180 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRASTATE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRanch Hope Inc: $820 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THANC FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC: $600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $100 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.

  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF MIDDLESEX & MONMOUTH COUNTIES A NJ NONPROFIT CORP ↗
  • Who funds SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL STRIDES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF MONMOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds LEV CHABAD INC ↗
  • Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Rutgers Hillel Corporation ↗
  • Who funds PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Brothers for Life ↗
  • Who funds MONMOUTH COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COUNCIL OF JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS OF NASSAU COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE ↗
  • Who funds MONMOUTH BEACH FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY FORGE MILITARY ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AXELROD PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND ↗
  • Who funds MERCY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds CENTRASTATE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Oceanfirst FoundationThe Ansell Grimm & Aa…Investors Foundation …Manasquan Bank Charit…Bristol-Myers Squibb …The Premselaar Founda…New Jersey Natural Ga…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Anabel FoundationEugene & Gloria Landy…The Amboy FoundationThe Jay and Linda Gru…
Oceanfirst FoundationNJ23.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oceanfirst Foundation · The Ansell Grimm & Aaron Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Manasquan Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Premselaar Foundation Inc · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Anabel Foundation · Eugene & Gloria Landy Family Foundation · The Amboy Foundation · The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin 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 Carl and Mary Gross Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carl and Mary Gross Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Mercy Center Corporation: 21% of income from government
  • Axelrod Performing Arts Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
  • Special Strides Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Suffolk University: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Carl and Mary Gross 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 70 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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