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Michael Gross Family Foundation at a glance

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Michael Gross Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$2.8MEducation$1.0MYouth Development$660kRecreation & Sports$643kFood & Nutrition$200kInternational$100kReligion$39kArts & Culture$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $523k
  • $250k+1 grant · $750k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$750,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$225,000
YOUTH RENEWAL FUND$118,000
TRINITY SCHOOL$80,000
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
MOUNT SINAI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$45,000
MECOX BAY CONSERVANCY INC$25,000
STEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES$15,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VOICES OF HOPE: $18k → 8%TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVA: $25k → 22%MECOX BAY CONSERVANCY INC: $25k → 7%STEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES: $15k → 9%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $25k → 16%NY ROAD RUNNERS: $100k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $750k → 14%BIG GREEN: $100k → 12%FIRST DESCENTS: $125k → 12%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $225k → 14%CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%STEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES: $15k → 9%NY ROAD RUNNERS: $50k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $500k → 14%BIG GREEN: $100k → 12%FIRST DESCENTS: $100k → 12%STEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES: $15k → 9%UJA FEDERATON: $18k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $250k → 14%FIRST DESCENTS: $100k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $250k → 14%FIRST DESCENTS: $50k → 12%LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING A: $25k → 17%CONGREGATION EMANUEL: $28k → 17%NY ROADRUNNERS: $100k → 17%KELLOGG FINNET INC: $203k → 17%KELLOGG FINNET INC: $103k → 17%KELLOGG FINNET INC: $100k → 17%NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS: $26k → 17%TRINITY SCHOOL: $100k → 17%TRINITY SCHOOL: $80k → 17%TRINITY SCHOOL: $60k → 17%TRINITY SCHOOL: $55k → 17%TRINITY SCHOOL: $50k → 17%YOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $118k → 17%YOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $118k → 17%YOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $118k → 17%YOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $100k → 17%YOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $65k → 17%YOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $36k → 17%MT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $667k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $100k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $50k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $50k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $50k → 17%MT SINAI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $50k → 17%MOUNT SINAI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $45k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 13 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$4.6M
$798k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+12%

Still filing today

54%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $298k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    4× · 2018–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +195% · 94% of their budget
  • YR
    YOUTH RENEWAL FUND
    6× · 2018–2024 · $555k · revenue +37%
  • FD
    FIRST DESCENTS
    4× · 2018–2023 · $375k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • MS
    MT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2018 · $667k
  • NY
    NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $26k · revenue +35%
  • LC
    LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING A
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
7
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Road Runners Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mecox Bay Conservancy 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

16 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. 16 of the 31 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Michigan: $1,750,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganMT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $666,666 · OtherMT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEMKellogg FinNet Inc: $407,500 · OtherKellogg FinNet IncTRINITY SCHOOL: $355,150 · OtherTRINITY SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientISLAND ACADEMY INTERNATIONAL: $200,000 · Other+15 more: $264,210 · Other+15 moreYOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $555,000 · EducationYOUTH RENEWAL FUN…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $275,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF M…Cornell University: $35,000 · Education+1 more: $25,000 · EducationFIRST DESCENTS: $375,000 · Recreation & SportsFIRST DESCE…Northwestern University: $225,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwester…Big Green: $200,000 · Food & NutritionCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $100,000 · PhilanthropySTEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES INC: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentMECOX BAY CONSERVANCY INC: $25,000 · Environment
Other$3,893,526Education$890,000Recreation & Sports$600,000Food & Nutrition$200,000Philanthropy$100,000Youth Development$90,000Environment$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Michigan: $1,750,000 over 4y, 94% of budgetYOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $555,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetKellogg FinNet Inc: $407,500 over 4y, 51% of budgetFIRST DESCENTS: $375,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $275,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $225,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Green: $200,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES INC: $90,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetCornell University: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC: $26,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMECOX BAY CONSERVANCY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetVOICES OF HOPE INC: $18,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARMORY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH RENEWAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds Kellogg FinNet Inc ↗
  • Who funds FIRST DESCENTS ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds Big Green ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds STEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES INC ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds MECOX BAY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds VOICES OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARMORY FOUNDATION ↗

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.

National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Michael Gross Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael Gross Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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