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Jerome and Marlene Brody 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.

$475k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$541kSocial Science$350kHealth$187kHuman Services$46kEducation$45kYouth Development$35kFood & Nutrition$30kEnvironment$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOON IS NOW INC$200,000
THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE$100,000
THE FEMINIST INSTITUTE$30,000
COLUMBIA GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
REACH OUT & READ$10,000
MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE$10,000
BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION$10,000
WILD EARTH$10,000
FL WILDLIFE CORRIDOR FOUNDATION$10,000
BEST$10,000
COLUMBIA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$10,000
MAC-HAYDN THEATRE$10,000
RERUN FARM$10,000
WAMC$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 6%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 6%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.

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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$452k · 22 repeat orgs$870k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
10

Total granted

$452k
$540k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+19%

Still filing today

50%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $330k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

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

  • W
    WAMC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +4%
  • WE
    WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +24%
  • BC
    Belmont Child Care Association Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • DB
    DARTMOUTH-JEROME BRODY IPF
    one grant, 2023 · $350k
  • DC
    DARTMOUTH COLLEGE MEDICAL CTR
    one grant, 2018 · $165k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k

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.

1
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
2
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
3
The Trustees of the New York Society Library

The new york society library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.

4
Nassau County Museum of Art

The Museum's mission is to encourage and promote the appreciation of fine art to people in its surrounding communities and beyond. The Museum is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the arts, with particular emphasis on the…

Arts & Culture
5
Peconic Public Broadcasting

Peconic Public Broadcasting is a public FM radio station located in Southampton, New York. The station services Long Island and coastal Connecticut and offers listeners both national and local programs.

6
White Plains Performing Arts Center

Productions

Arts & Culture
7
Keen Theater Company Inc

To produce sincere plays. the organization seeks to create a culture of artists, technicians, administrators and audiences who share a desire to invigorate the theater with productions that connect each other through humor, heart and hope.

Arts & Culture
8
Catskill Public Library

A public library with locations in catskill and palenville, new york providing reference materials and various on-line services.

9
Western New York Public Broadcasting Association

We engage our communities through education, exploration, and entertainment - everywhere - including assisting partners in achieving the same.

Arts & Culture
10
New City Free Library

To provide free public library services

11
The Weston Playhouse Theater

The weston playhouse theater is vermont's oldest professional theater company and, with its multi-stage summer festival and year-round educational and outreach programs, is dedicated to quality theater and broad community support.

Arts & Culture
12
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wamc and the most unlike its peers is The Ghent Playhouse 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 36 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DARTMOUTH-JEROME BRODY IPF — $350,000 · OtherDARTMOUTH-JEROME BRODY IPFDARTMOUTH COLLEGE MEDICAL CTR — $165,000 · OtherDARTMOUTH COLLEGE MEDICAL CTRMIAMI LIGHTHOUSE — $155,000 · OtherMIAMI LIGHTHOUSE+19 more — $172,600 · Other+19 moreSOON IS NOW INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureSOON IS NOW INCTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INCWAMC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureWAMCTHOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE — $15,000 · Arts & CultureMAC-HAYDN THEATRE INC — $14,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $16,500 · Arts & CultureTFI DIGITAL ARCHIVE — $30,000 · Social ScienceREACH OUT AND READ INC — $20,000 · EducationBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION — $5,000 · EducationKINDERHOOK MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $4,000 · EducationThe Columbia Memorial Hospital — $20,000 · HealthWILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBelmont Child Care Association Inc — $20,000 · Human Services
Other$842,600Arts & Culture$375,500Social Science$30,000Education$29,000Health$20,000Youth Development$20,000Human Services$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOON IS NOW INC — $200,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTFI DIGITAL ARCHIVE — $30,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetWAMC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBelmont Child Care Association Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOLUMBIA-GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMAC-HAYDN THEATRE INC — $14,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC — $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGHENT FOOD PANTRY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetTHE GHENT PLAYHOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALATIE FREE LIBRARY — $4,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetKINDERHOOK MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds SOON IS NOW INC
  • Who funds THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC
  • Who funds TFI DIGITAL ARCHIVE
  • Who funds WAMC
  • Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC
  • Who funds The Columbia Memorial Hospital
  • Who funds WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL
  • Who funds Belmont Child Care Association Inc
  • Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST
  • Who funds THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE
  • Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds MAC-HAYDN THEATRE INC
  • Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC
  • Who funds GHENT FOOD PANTRY INC
  • Who funds THE GHENT PLAYHOUSE INC
  • Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
  • Who funds VALATIE FREE LIBRARY
  • Who funds KINDERHOOK MEMORIAL LIBRARY

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.

Bank of Greene County Charitable FoundationNY19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · Hrbt Foundation · T Backer Fund Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Jerome and Marlene Brody 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc9% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc0% 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Jerome and Marlene Brody Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jerome and Marlene Brody Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 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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