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Grossman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$455k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$440k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$3.2MHealth$555kArts & Culture$390kInternational$310kYouth Development$60kEnvironment$50kHuman Services$45kCrime & Legal$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $250k+1 grant · $440k
$440,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSTIY OF PENNSYLVANIA$440,000
ASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$15,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $440k → 22%HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE: $25k → 8%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $25k → 9%ASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%SAFE & SOUND: $45k → 10%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $300k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $100k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $25k → 15%NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS: $50k → 8%THE V FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%THE LITTLE SCHOOL: $100k → 9%UNIVERSTIY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $440k → 22%HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $25k → 9%ASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%TIPPING POINT: $100k → 10%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $300k → 14%CHILD MIND INSTITUTE: $20k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $440k → 22%HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%ASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $100k → 10%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $300k → 14%CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $3k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $65k → 22%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PENINSULA: $60k → 7%TIPPING POINT: $100k → 10%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $200k → 14%CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $3k → 17%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $38k → 22%SACRED HEART SCHOOLS ATHERTON: $150k → 7%UCSF FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSLYVANIA: $25k → 22%SACRED HEART SCHOOLS ATHERTON: $150k → 7%UCSF FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $20k → 22%UCSF FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET: $175k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET: $105k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET: $100k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $5k → 10%GATEWAY PUBLIC SCHOOL: $1k → 10%SE SCHOLARS SAN FRANCISCO: $25k → 10%SEVEN TEPEES: $10k → 10%SEO SCHOLARS SAN FRANCISCO: $10k → 10%NEW DOOR VENTURES: $3k → 10%JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 11 repeat orgs$915k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
16

Total granted

$2.7M
$475k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+53%

Still filing today

73%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $440k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyInternationalHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +45%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2018–2023 · $385k · revenue +30%
  • TP
    TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY
    3× · 2017–2020 · $300k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LITTLE SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +131%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +47%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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2
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

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3
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
4
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
5
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
San Francisco University High School

At san franicisco university high school, we engage our community of diverse voices in a transformational experience that embraces the spirited pursuit of learning and empowers purpose larger than self.

Education
8
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
9
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
10
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
11
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
12
The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Suicide Prevention. 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

22 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. 22 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $1,100,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $1,027,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $330,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION+4 more — $151,000 · Education+4 moreUNIVERSTIY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $440,000 · OtherUNIVERSTIY OF PENNSYLVANIASACRED HEART SCHOOLS ATHERTON — $300,000 · OtherSACRED HEART SCHOOLS ATHERT…THE LITTLE SCHOOL — $100,000 · OtherTHE LITTLE SCHOOLPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA — $100,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATI…PLANNED PARENTHOOD — $50,000 · OtherSAFE & SOUND — $45,000 · Other+8 more — $93,500 · Other+8 moreSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION — $385,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANC…TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY — $300,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentSEVEN TEPEES YOUTH PROGRAM — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $25,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $50,000 · Environment
Education$2,608,500Other$1,128,500Arts & Culture$385,000Philanthropy$300,000Youth Development$70,000Health$55,000Environment$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $1,100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $1,027,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION — $385,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $330,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY — $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LITTLE SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSAFE & SOUND — $45,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SUICIDE PREVENTION — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSEVEN TEPEES YOUTH PROGRAM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW DOOR VENTURES FKA GOLDEN GATE COMMUNITY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The San Francisco FoundationCA20.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Grossman Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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