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The Barbara and Edward Netter Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$365k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Health$209kArts & Culture$126kPhilanthropy$87kHuman Services$4kHousing & Shelter$3kEducation$3k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$80,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLIANCE FOR CANCER GENE THERAPY$125,000
BRUCE MUSEUM$80,000
GREENWICH UNITED WAY$80,000
GREENWICH HOSPITAL$80,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 7% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%IONA COLLEGE: $500 → 9%SELF HELP: $1k → 17%PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $1k → 14%ALPHA-I FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%SHEPHERDS INC: $1k → 9%SELF HELP: $1k → 17%ALLIANCE FOR CANCER GENE THERAPY: $125k → 9%HSS FOUNDATION: $200 → 17%GREENWICH HOSPITAL: $80k → 9%SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET: $14k → 17%GREENWICH UNITED WAY: $80k → 9%THE SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET: $7k → 17%BRUCE MUSEUM: $80k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD COLATION FOR SHELTER: $2k → 17%CONNECTICUT BALLET: $3k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER: $1k → 17%CONNECTICUT BALLET: $3k → 9%CONNECTICUT BALLET: $3k → 9%AVON THEATER: $1k → 9%ALLIANCE FOR CANCER GENE THERAPY: $2k → 9%BRUCE MUSEUM: $15k → 9%BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE: $2k → 9%GREENWICH SYMPHONY: $2k → 9%GREENWICH LIBRARY: $1k → 9%GREENWICH UNITED WAY: $1k → 9%YWCA OF GREENWICH: $1k → 9%YWCA: $1k → 9%GREENWICH PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS: $50 → 9%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.

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$343k · 8 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$343k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+26%

Still filing today

75%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CANCER GENE THERAPY INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $127k · revenue +81%
  • SO
    SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $21k · revenue +141%
  • CB
    CONNECTICUT BALLET INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $9k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • BC
    BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -17%
  • YO
    YWCA OF GREENWICH
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • AF
    ALPHA-1 FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +26%

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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
3
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
4
Yale New Haven Hospital

The mission of ynhh is to provide innovative and excellent patient care, teaching, research, and service to the communities it serves.

Health
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
Princeton Ballet Society

Princeton ballet society's mission is to nurture a lifelong love of dance and lift the collective spirit through excellent, relevant, and accessible artistic and educational programs, with a focus on classical ballet.

Arts & Culture
9
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
10
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
11
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
12
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is School of American Ballet Inc and the most unlike its peers is Iona University. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALLIANCE FOR CANCER GENE THERAPY INC — $126,500 · PhilanthropyALLIANCE FOR CANCER GENE THERAPY …+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyBRUCE MUSEUM INC — $95,000 · Arts & CultureBRUCE MUSEUM INCSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC — $21,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INCUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC — $81,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH IN…CONNECTICUT BALLET INC — $9,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT BALLET INCIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · Other+6 more — $5,250 · OtherGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $80,000 · HealthGREENWICH HOSPITAL+2 more — $2,500 · HealthNEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER INC — $3,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY — $1,000 · EducationSHEPHERDS INC — $1,000 · EducationIONA UNIVERSITY — $500 · Education
Philanthropy$127,500Arts & Culture$116,000Other$100,250Health$82,500Housing & Shelter$3,000Education$2,500

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 budgetALLIANCE FOR CANCER GENE THERAPY INC — $126,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC — $95,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC — $81,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC — $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT BALLET INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALPHA-1 FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERDS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIONA UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Barbara and Edward Netter 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
202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Connecticut Ballet Inc2% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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

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How do I get to The Barbara and Edward Netter Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Barbara and Edward Netter 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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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