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Don & Linda Brodie Family Foundation at a glance

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Don & Linda Brodie 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.

$9.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$4.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$6.5MPhilanthropy$2.9MScience & Tech$2.8MEducation$1.1MInternational$325kReligion$12kArts & Culture$6kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $49k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $322k
  • $250k+8 grants · $8.8M
$72,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JAFCO$4,340,000
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION - ISRAEL$1,000,000
HAR ZION TEMPLE$600,000
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - EBERLY COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES$500,000
JAFCO FAMILY MATTERS$500,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH$460,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA JEWISH COMMUNITY FUND$400,000
CARON$125,000
TUNNEL TO TOWER FOUNDATION$75,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$72,000
MCPHERSON COLLEGE STUDENT DEBT PROJECT$50,000
CHABAD AT TULANE$8,600
CHABAD MORGANTOWN$5,000
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$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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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $6.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JAFCO - Jewish Adoption and Family Care: $400k → 7%JAFCO CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $2.6M → 13%JAFCO - Jewish Adoption and Family Care: $350k → 7%Jewish Adoption and Foster Care Options: $950k → 13%JAFCO - Jewish Adoption and Family Care: $110k → 7%JAFCO CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $350k → 13%JAFCO - Jewish Adoption and Family Care: $100k → 7%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE OPTIONS: $350k → 13%JAFCO - Jewish Adoption and Family Care: $4k → 7%Jewish Adoption and Foster Care Options: $350k → 13%JAFCO CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $175k → 13%JAFCO CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $155k → 13%JAFCO CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $150k → 13%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

IL
NY
PA
CA
WV
KS
DC
LA
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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.2M · 15 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
10

Total granted

$9.2M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+14%

Still filing today

60%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.9M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureScience & TechEnvironmentOther
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

  • JA
    Jewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc
    5× · 2019–2023 · $964k · revenue +581% · 49% of their budget
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    4× · 2022–2025 · $142k · revenue +190%
  • BI
    BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • JC
    JAFCO Children's Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $3.4M · revenue 0% · 34% of their budget
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANATEVKA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $90k · revenue +87%
  • MC
    MCPHERSON COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +6%
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
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
2
University of Judaism Foundation
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3
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
4
Sherit Isroel
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5
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

—
6
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
7
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
8
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
9
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
10
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
11
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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12
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc

Yivo's mission is to study the thousand-year history of jewish life in eastern europe and russia in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways and material culture. yivo's archive and library preserves a significant collection…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Israel Tennis Centers Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Yeshiva University. 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

26 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. 26 of the 40 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JAFCO: $4,340,000 · OtherJAFCOAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION - ISRAEL: $2,600,000 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION - ISRAELJewish Federation of South Palm: $1,200,000 · OtherJewish Federation of South PalmJafco Family Matters: $1,000,000 · OtherJafco Family MattersHAR ZION TEMPLE: $600,000 · OtherHAR ZION TEMPLEWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - EBERLY COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $500,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA JEWISH COMMUNITY FUND: $400,000 · Other+9 more: $515,300 · OtherJAFCO Children's Foundation Inc: $3,430,000 · Human ServicesJAFCO Children's Foundation I…Jewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc: $1,650,000 · Human ServicesJewish Adoption and Foster Ca…Jewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc: $963,750 · Human ServicesJewish Adoption and Family Ca…YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 · EducationYESHIVA UN…WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · EducationWEST VIRGI…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $125,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SI…+4 more: $66,000 · EducationJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $1,380,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FE…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $600,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FE…AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $1,225,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $142,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANATEVKA INC: $90,000 · International+5 more: $80,400 · InternationalThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $3,600 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Science & TechFRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: $2,000 · Environment
Other$11,155,300Human Services$6,043,750Education$2,191,000Philanthropy$1,980,000International$1,537,400Arts & Culture$8,600Science & Tech$5,000Environment$2,000

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 budgetJAFCO Children's Foundation Inc: $3,430,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetJewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc: $1,650,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $1,380,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $1,225,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc: $963,750 over 5y, 49% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $600,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $142,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANATEVKA INC: $90,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMCPHERSON COLLEGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $38,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL OF BROWARD AND PALM BEACH INC: $13,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE KING'S ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $7,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA BEACH JEWISH EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSINGING CITY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTREE HOUSE BOOKS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

National Philanthropi…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA11.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Don & Linda Brodie Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Don & Linda Brodie Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 40 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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