· Private foundation
Gross Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $99k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $625k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (JNF) | $200,000 |
| HILLSDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CHABAD OF PALM BEACH GARDENS | $72,500 |
| YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH | $52,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $50,000 |
| CULTURAL COUNCIL FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY | $50,000 |
| ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA | $37,400 |
| OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE | $37,067 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $5,000 |
| HILLSDALE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CARE | $5,000 |
| GHETTO FIGHTERS MUSEUM | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
43 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 13 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- RCRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $400k · revenue +27%
- CCCultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc4× · 2020–2025 · $213k · revenue +114%
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC4× · 2017–2024 · $204k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- TJTHE JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGHone grant, 2024 · $180k · revenue 0%
- HFHILLSDALE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $100k
- GCGross Center for Holocaust Genocideone grant, 2017 · $85k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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 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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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.
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).
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Duffy's Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 128 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds RAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER ORLANDO INC ↗
- Who funds YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds VERMONT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST FORUM ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds SCORE Foundation ↗
- Who funds BERGEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Mestal Foundation · The Eva and Marvin Schlanger Family Foundation · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Servant Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Chicago Community Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Gross Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — 6% of income from government
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Ramapo College Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Jack the Bike Man Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.