· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABRAHAM INITIATIVES | $9,955 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $4,000 |
| TEMPLE SINAI | $3,400 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES | $3,000 |
| NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| CHANGING PERSPECTIVES | $2,500 |
| NAN PROJECT | $2,500 |
| PALESTINE CHILDRENS' RELIEF FUND | $2,000 |
| CARECEN-NETWORK FOR GOOD | $2,000 |
| FLORENCE PROJECTFLORENCE REFUGEE & RIGHTS PROJECT | $2,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB - IAN DEGROOT MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP | $2,000 |
| AL OTRO LADO | $2,000 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL | $1,941 |
| CENTRO PRESENTE | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +6%
- NMNFI Massachusetts Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +33%
- CUCOLGATE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- GGGLOBAL GIVING - PROJECT RESONATEone grant, 2021 · $8k
- HCHEBREW COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -2%
- NANorth American Family Institute Incone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -17%
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
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.
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…
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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.
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…
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
Education and Research
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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.
How this is measured
112 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. 112 of the 229 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marilyn & Mike Grossman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marilyn & Mike Grossman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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