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Marilyn & Mike 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.

$79k
Granted FY2025still arriving
94
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

International$223kEducation$87kReligion$76kHuman Services$69kCivil Rights$61kYouth Development$31kPhilanthropy$30kPublic Benefit$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 94 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$400
Median grant
15
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ABRAHAM INITIATIVES$9,955
TEMPLE ISRAEL$4,000
TEMPLE SINAI$3,400
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES$3,000
NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE$3,000
CHANGING PERSPECTIVES$2,500
COLGATE UNIVERSITY$2,500
NAN PROJECT$2,500
AL OTRO LADO$2,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB - IAN DEGROOT MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP$2,000
PALESTINE CHILDRENS' RELIEF FUND$2,000
FLORENCE PROJECTFLORENCE REFUGEE & RIGHTS PROJECT$2,000
CARECEN-NETWORK FOR GOOD$2,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL$1,941
OLD SPOKES HOME$1,500
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 (FY17–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JCAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $350 → 7%NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE: $3k → 10%AL OTRO LADO: $2k → 11%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND BLIND: $300 → 11%SHEER LOVE RWANDA: $1k → 12%NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE: $3k → 10%JCAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $200 → 7%NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE: $3k → 10%NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE: $3k → 10%NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE: $3k → 10%NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE: $3k → 10%NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE: $3k → 10%NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE: $3k → 10%NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE: $3k → 10%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $250 → 7%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $200 → 7%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $200 → 7%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $100 → 7%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $50 → 7%NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE-SENIOR: $2k → 8%BRIDGEWATER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200 → 9%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON: $160 → 8%KING STREET CENTER: $3k → 10%OLD SPOKES HOME: $3k → 10%KING STREET CENTER: $3k → 10%OLD SPOKES HOME: $3k → 10%KING STREET CENTER: $2k → 10%KING STREET CENTER: $2k → 10%KING STREET CENTER: $2k → 10%OLD SPOKES HOME: $2k → 10%OLD SPOKES HOME: $2k → 10%KING STREET CENTER: $2k → 10%OLD SPOKES HOME: $2k → 10%KING STREET CENTER: $2k → 10%KING STREET CENTER: $2k → 10%OLD SPOKES HOME: $2k → 10%King Street Center: $1k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $50 → 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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VT
NH
WA
MN
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$476k · 120 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

120 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

120
78

Total granted

$476k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+10%

Still filing today

50%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • TA
    THE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +6%
  • NM
    NFI Massachusetts Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +33%
  • CU
    COLGATE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • GG
    GLOBAL GIVING - PROJECT RESONATE
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • HC
    HEBREW COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -2%
  • NA
    North American Family Institute Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -17%

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
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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2
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
3
Vermont Public Co

Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
6
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
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
9
Jewish Vocational Service Inc

To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.

Employment
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North American Family Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sheer Love Rwanda. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsCancer Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Sports ProgramsPolicy Research and AdvocacyImmigrant Worker SupportFood Banks and PantriesPublic Library OperationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-12 SchoolsJewish Community Organizati…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%44%35–55yr16%14%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/126
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,439

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.

04the grantee network

112 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. 112 of the 229 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
107/112
Grantees still filing
75/112
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC — $26,400 · OtherTHE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INCCHANGING PERSPECTIVES — $24,900 · OtherCHANGING PERSPECTIVESCOMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES-UKRAINE EMERGENCY FUND — $23,625 · OtherCOMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES-UKRAINE EMERGENCY…TEMPLE ISRAEL INCORPORATED — $22,478 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL INCORPORATEDTEMPLE SINAI — $21,404 · OtherTEMPLE SINAIHEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION — $11,300 · Other+139 more — $163,660 · Other+139 moreAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $130,572 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INCTHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC — $78,704 · InternationalTHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INCInternational Rescue Committee INC — $9,000 · International+12 more — $25,616 · International+12 moreNFI Massachusetts Inc — $27,000 · Human ServicesNFI Massac…KING STREET CENTER INC — $17,100 · Human ServicesKING STREE…BURLINGTON BICYCLE PROJECT CORP — $12,500 · Human ServicesBURLINGTON…+11 more — $10,110 · Human Services+11 moreCOLGATE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationJEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE — $8,375 · EducationSEATTLE GIRLS' SCHOOL — $3,545 · EducationHEBREW COLLEGE — $3,500 · EducationThe President and Trustees of Colby College — $2,750 · EducationLake Champlain Waldorf School — $2,450 · EducationHebron Academy Incorporated — $2,375 · EducationUPSTANDER PROJECT INC — $2,000 · Education+7 more — $4,775 · EducationELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC — $10,500 · HealthAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC — $5,200 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $2,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC — $1,600 · Health+1 more — $165 · HealthJEWISH COMMUNITIES OF VERMONT INC — $10,300 · ReligionMANSFIELD NORDIC CLUB INC — $3,550 · Recreation & SportsKIDS ON THE BALL INC — $1,800 · Recreation & SportsFELLOWSHIP OF THE WHEEL — $1,100 · Recreation & SportsNEW ENGLAND NORDIC SKI ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsCOCHRANS SKI AREA INC — $425 · Recreation & Sports
Other$293,767International$243,892Human Services$66,710Education$49,770Health$19,465Religion$10,300Recreation & Sports$7,875

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $130,572 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC — $78,704 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetNFI Massachusetts Inc — $27,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC — $26,400 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKING STREET CENTER INC — $17,100 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBURLINGTON BICYCLE PROJECT CORP — $12,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC — $10,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITIES OF VERMONT INC — $10,300 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE — $8,375 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEPOINT INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC — $5,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $4,786 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY COOPERATIVE SCHOOL — $4,420 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMANSFIELD NORDIC CLUB INC — $3,550 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSEATTLE GIRLS' SCHOOL — $3,545 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK — $3,388 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBASICNEEDS US INC — $3,350 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $3,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Public Radio — $3,218 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College — $2,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLake Champlain Waldorf School — $2,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $2,450 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHebron Academy Incorporated — $2,375 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS — $2,153 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT COMMUNITY LOAN FUND — $2,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUPSTANDER PROJECT INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNorth American Family Institute Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS ON THE BALL INC — $1,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC — $1,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES — $1,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST — $1,498 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT LAND TRUST INC — $1,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL VERMONT REFUGEE ACTION NETWORK INC — $1,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF THE WHEEL — $1,100 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,035 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND NORDIC SKI ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMIDDLESEX SCHOOL — $825 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUSH SCHOOL — $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $800 over 9y, 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.

  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds NFI Massachusetts Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds KING STREET CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BURLINGTON BICYCLE PROJECT CORP ↗
  • Who funds ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF VERMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEPOINT INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY COOPERATIVE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MANSFIELD NORDIC CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE GIRLS' SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds BASICNEEDS US INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds Vermont Public Radio ↗
  • Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗

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 Vermont Community…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…Lintilhac Foundation …National Life Group C…Seventh Generation Fo…RUTH & PETER METZ FAM…Antonio B and Rita M …Combined Jewish Phila…The Waterwheel Founda…Turrell FundBoston Foundation IncUnited Way Of Massach…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT33.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Seventh Generation Foundation Inc · RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN · Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Waterwheel Foundation · Turrell Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc

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 Marilyn & Mike 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Smokey House Center — 54% of income from government
  • King Street Center Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
  • United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Upstander Project Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Northeast Slopes Inc — 30% of income from government
  • The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis — 17% of income from government
  • Champlain Housing Trust — 15% of income from government
  • Vermont Community Loan Fund — 14% of income from government
  • Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
  • Lake Champlain Waldorf School — 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
  • Peacham Library Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Circuit Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Documentary Educational Resources Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Craftsbury Public Library Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% of income from government
  • Common Roots Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Marilyn & Mike Grossman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Marilyn & Mike 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 229 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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