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Joseph C Grossman Foundation

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.

$2k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$22kHuman Services$15kEnvironment$14kEducation$7kCivil Rights$4kInternational$4kArts & Culture$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,136
Median grant
2
States reached
$108k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Center for Reproductive Rights$1,136
Capital Trees$989
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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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%American National Red Cross: $2k → 14%Full Circle Grief Center: $1k → 6%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 22%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 22%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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NY
MA
CA
VA
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DC
HI
GA

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$44k · 9 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
14

Total granted

$44k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+1%

Still filing today

67%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $989 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentInternationalHealthEducationCivil RightsOther

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

  • NT
    NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN
    2× · 2017–2018 · $14k · revenue +174%
  • FH
    FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
    4× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +27%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF RICHMOND
    2× · 2019–2020 · $5k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • AA
    ALOHA ANGELS FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • FH
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +9%

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
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
9
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
10
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
11
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
12
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the most unlike its peers is Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. 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

17 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. 17 of the 25 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)
16/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD — $9,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $8,300 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTERIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALOHA ANGELS FUND — $5,000 · OtherALOHA ANGELS FUNDNational Abortion Federation — $1,557 · OtherDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC — $1,500 · Other+6 more — $4,477 · Other+6 moreNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN — $13,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTAN…CAPITAL TREES — $989 · EnvironmentCAPITAL TREESJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF RICHMOND — $4,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMM…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,500 · Human ServicesAmerican Na…FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER — $1,033 · Human ServicesFULL CIRCLE…Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $3,700 · HealthTHE MCSHIN FOUNDATION — $521 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $3,000 · InternationalDOCTORS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC — $510 · InternationalTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $2,169 · Civil RightsDONORSCHOOSEORG — $1,526 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $500 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO — $262 · Youth Development
Other$34,834Environment$14,489Human Services$7,033Health$4,221International$3,510Civil Rights$2,169Education$2,026Youth Development$262

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN — $13,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $8,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF RICHMOND — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $3,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $2,169 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $1,526 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER — $1,033 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL TREES — $989 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO — $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MCSHIN FOUNDATION — $521 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOCTORS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC — $510 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO — $262 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC — $200 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 Community Foundation IncVA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Carmax Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Joseph C Grossman 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Joseph C Grossman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joseph C Grossman 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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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