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Ethel S Brody Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Ethel S Brody Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$68k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$391kEducation$123kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
$2,400
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART$31,200
USC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$20,000
TEMPLE SINAI WINDOW FUND$5,000
PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFTS$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,400
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$1,500
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$1,500
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$1,500
THE SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM$1,150
NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $2k → 17%USC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $30k → 16%TEMPLE BETH OR: $2k → 8%AMERICAN DANCE: $2k → 11%NORTH CAROLINA POTTERY CENTER: $1k → 14%THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $5k → 11%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1k → 17%USC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%CAM RALEIGH: $1k → 8%THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $3k → 11%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1k → 17%USC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1k → 17%USC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART: $57k → 8%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1k → 17%USC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $11k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART: $31k → 8%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1k → 17%USC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART: $17k → 8%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1k → 17%USC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $4k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART: $11k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART: $6k → 8%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3k → 17%NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART: $6k → 8%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2k → 17%NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 8%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2k → 17%NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART: $3k → 8%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2k → 17%AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE: $2k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2k → 17%AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE: $2k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 17%AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE: $2k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 17%BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $2k → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $2k → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $2k → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $2k → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $1k → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $1k → 17%THE SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM: $1k → 17%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$503k · 11 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
7

Total granted

$503k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+62%

Still filing today

91%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • CM
    COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART
    4× · 2017–2020 · $150k · revenue +19%
  • NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $136k · revenue +121%
  • PS
    Penland School Of Craft
    8× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • TS
    TEMPLE SINAI MUSEUM FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • TB
    TEMPLE BETH OR
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -36%
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
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
2
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
3
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
4
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…

Arts & Culture
7
Mint Museum of Art Inc

The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.

Arts & Culture
8
Baltimore Museum of Art

The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the composition…

Arts & Culture
9
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
10
The Nelson Gallery Foundation

Encouragement of public interest in art.

Arts & Culture
11
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
12
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

15 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. 15 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART: $150,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ARTNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $136,144 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATIONPenland School Of Craft: $44,000 · Arts & CulturePenland School Of CraftMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $14,068 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $36,507 · Arts & Culture+8 moreUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $114,433 · EducationUniversity of South Caroli…THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $8,500 · EducationTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETO…+1 more: $500 · EducationTEMPLE SINAI WINDOW FUND: $5,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA POTTERY CENTER: $2,825 · OtherTEMPLE SINAI MUSEUM FUND: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,400 · OtherTEMPLE BETH OR: $1,500 · OtherBRAHM: $650 · Other
Arts & Culture$380,719Education$123,433Other$14,875

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART: $150,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $136,144 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $114,433 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPenland School Of Craft: $44,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $14,068 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $9,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $9,522 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $8,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $5,990 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $395 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.

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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 Ethel S Brody Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ethel S Brody Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Hun School of Princeton: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–15%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Ethel S Brody Charitable Foundation Inc 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 21 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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