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Gross Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$768k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1MInternational$701kReligion$646kArts & Culture$573kPhilanthropy$384kHuman Services$202kHealth$191kHousing & Shelter$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $99k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $625k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (JNF)$200,000
THE BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$100,000
HILLSDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$100,000
CHABAD OF PALM BEACH GARDENS$72,500
YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH$52,000
CULTURAL COUNCIL FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY$50,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$50,000
ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA$37,400
OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE$37,067
Individual grant recipient$25,000
GHETTO FIGHTERS MUSEUM$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
HILLSDALE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CARE$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JAFCO-Jewish Adoption Family Care O: $1k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $40k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 11%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

VT
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 44 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

44 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
66

Total granted

$2.7M
$817k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+30%

Still filing today

52%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • RC
    RAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $400k · revenue +27%
  • CC
    Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc
    4× · 2020–2025 · $213k · revenue +114%
  • NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $204k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THE JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH
    one grant, 2024 · $180k · revenue 0%
  • HF
    HILLSDALE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • GC
    Gross Center for Holocaust Genocide
    one grant, 2017 · $85k
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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3
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
4
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…

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5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
United States Naval Institute

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.

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8
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

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,…

Philanthropy
9
University of New Haven

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…

Education
10
The Baruch College Fund

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.

Education
11
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
12
Fordham University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 127 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/59
Grantees still filing
40/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HILLSDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $505,000 · OtherHILLSDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONCHABAD OF PALM BEACH GARDENS INC: $257,900 · OtherCHABAD OF PALM BEACH GARDENS INCJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (JNF): $200,000 · OtherJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (JNF)HILLSDALE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $100,000 · OtherGross Center for Holocaust Genocide: $85,219 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $70,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $70,500 · Other+86 more: $658,834 · Other+86 moreBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $368,200 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL …JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $286,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FU…+8 more: $42,400 · International+8 moreCultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc: $212,500 · Arts & CultureCultural Cou…NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $204,145 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEU…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $16,100 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $14,100 · Arts & CultureRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $400,000 · EducationRAMAPO COLL…+7 more: $16,500 · EducationYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC: $127,000 · ReligionZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA: $94,900 · ReligionTHE JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH: $180,000 · Health+3 more: $2,100 · HealthJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER ORLANDO INC: $175,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$2,022,453International$696,600Arts & Culture$446,845Education$416,500Religion$221,900Health$182,100Human Services$176,000

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 budgetRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $368,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $286,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc: $212,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $204,145 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH: $180,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER ORLANDO INC: $175,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC: $127,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA: $94,900 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $70,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC: $16,675 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $16,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE EAST FORUM: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT LAND TRUST INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $11,500 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetMASTERS SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHorizons for Youth: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSCORE Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBERGEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTABLE TO TABLE INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUITS FOR SENIORS INC: $8,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetJack The Bike Man Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIRYAM INSTITUTE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR PEACE AND TOLERANCE INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSAVE VENICE INC: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS OF MAJOR AMERICAN JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS FUND: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 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 MIDDLE EAST FORUM ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MASTERS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Horizons for Youth ↗

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.

Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties IncFL15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gross Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gross Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
13report 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.

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 127 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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