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Robert L & Joan Bramson 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.

$15k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
29%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,500
Organizations funded a year
5 to 7
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$320k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Robert L & Joan Bramson Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$15k14%
FY20247$14k29%
FY20237$15k43%
FY20226$15k17%
FY20215$15k0%
FY20205$13kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$39kInternational$19kFood & Nutrition$7kReligion$5kEducation$3kHuman Services$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($21k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert L & Joan Bramson Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSave a Child's Heart Foundation US Inc: $15,601 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChai Lifeline Inc: $13,801 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Childrens Cancer Foundation Inc: $10,501 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIsrael Special Kids Fund: $8,001 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $6,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Leket Israel Inc: $4,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUS Friends of Dror Israel Inc: $3,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Center of Greater Lansing: $1,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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About Robert L & Joan Bramson Foundation Inc

How much does Robert L & Joan Bramson Foundation Inc give?
Robert L & Joan Bramson Foundation Inc reported 7 grants totaling $14,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Robert L & Joan Bramson Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (45%), International (22%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
Who are Robert L & Joan Bramson Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Save a Child's Heart Foundation US Inc ($16k), Chai Lifeline Inc ($14k), Israel Childrens Cancer Foundation Inc ($11k).
Does Robert L & Joan Bramson Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert L & Joan Bramson Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Robert L & Joan Bramson Foundation Inc based?
Robert L & Joan Bramson Foundation Inc is based in NJ.

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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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