· Private foundation
Norman & Florence Brody Family Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| CHARLES E SMITH LIFE COMMUNITY | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $3,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $3,000 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $3,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT | $3,000 |
| ACLU | $2,000 |
| BREAD FOR THE CITY | $2,000 |
| SIMON WEISENTHAL CENTER | $2,000 |
| MARTHA'S TABLE | $2,000 |
| ANNE ARUNDEL COUNT FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| FOOD & FRIENDS | $2,000 |
| ADOPT A CLASSROOM | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
44 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TMTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC6× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +57%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC6× · 2019–2025 · $17k · revenue ×11- TDTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC5× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- TITEMPLE ISAIAHone grant, 2017 · $3k
- AFACLU FOUNDATION OF MARYLAND INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +10%
- FPFUSION PARTNERSHIP INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -78%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 66 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville University ↗
- Who funds Mobile Medical Care Inc ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds ADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INC ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds BACK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds Rock Creek Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Council of Northern Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds FUEL FUND OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds GENERAL BREED FUND ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation 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 Norman & Florence Brody Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Rock Creek Conservancy Inc — 60% of income from government
- Mobile Medical Care Inc — 17% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jacksonville University — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.
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