· Private foundation
George Backer Family Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Brooklyn College Fdn Inc | $15,000 |
| Brandeis University | $15,000 |
| UJA - JCC Greenwich | $10,000 |
| Brooklyn Botanic Garden | $5,000 |
| Jewish Education in Media Inc | $5,000 |
| Central Oregon Environmental Center | $5,000 |
| Granite United Way Inc | $4,500 |
| Port Washington Youth Council | $4,000 |
| Educat'l Broadcasting CorpThirteen | $4,000 |
| HIAS | $4,000 |
| Leukemia Lymphoma Society | $4,000 |
| B'Nai B'Rith Hillel Fdn | $4,000 |
| Hadassah | $4,000 |
| US Holocaust Mem Mus | $3,000 |
| Port Washington Parent Res Ctr | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against -59% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +143%
- BBBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +74%
CENTRAL OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC DBA - THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +10%
Funded once
THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -59%
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.
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.
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).
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
How this is measured
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 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC DBA - THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRANITE UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds PORT WASHINGTON YOUTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds UJA FEDERATION OF GREENWICH INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds DESCHUTES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY 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.
Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George Backer Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George Backer Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Deschutes Public Library Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center: 0% of income from government
- The College of New Jersey Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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