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The Barbara Brodsky Foundation at a glance

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The Barbara Brodsky 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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$9.1MHuman Services$2.3MInternational$1.8MPhilanthropy$399kAnimals$130kPublic Benefit$90kScience & Tech$35kRecreation & Sports$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $100
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$250,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$750,000
MAIN LINE HEALTH$250,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES$100
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JFCS: $635k → 22%JFCS: $402k → 22%JFCS: $392k → 22%JFCS: $366k → 22%JFCS: $247k → 22%JFCS: $219k → 22%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 15 repeat orgs$347k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
9

Total granted

$13M
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+31%

Still filing today

73%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • LM
    LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $6.1M · revenue +26%
  • TB
    THE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $2.6M · revenue +101%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA
    6× · 2017–2022 · $2.3M · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • SH
    SAUNDERS HOUSE
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • PC
    PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATIC
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • P
    PCOM
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
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
Main Line Hospitals Inc

The mission of main line hospitals, inc. is to provide a comprehensive range of safe, high quality health services, complemented by educational and research activities that meet healthcare needs and improve the quality of life in the…

Health
2
Paoli Memorial Hospital Foundation

Provides fundraising and development activities to support main line hospitals, inc. - paoli memorial hospital.

Health
3
Main Line Healthcare

The professionals of main line healthcare, a key partner in a comprehensive healthcare network, are committed to providing the exceptional care that has been entrusted to us by patients and their families. main line healthcare provides…

Health
4
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research

The feinstein institute for medical research ("the institute") is the research branch of northwell health ("northwell"). through its affiliation with northwell, the institute's mission is to bridge the gap between biomedical research and…

Health
5
Lankenau Institute for Medical Research

Our mission is to advance human health and well being through research, to improve the detection & treatment of disease, to rapidly transfer new technology to the clinic, and to train the next generation of scientists & physicians.

—
6
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
7
Main Line Health System

Main line health system is the corporate holding company for main line health and subsidiaries and one of the members of the obligated group of certain bond indebtedness for the health system. main line health system does not provide…

Health
8
Pennsylvania Medical Society

The pennsylvania medical society is the voice of pennsylvania's physicians and the patients they serve. we advance quality patient care and the ethical practice of medicine. we promote physician leadership, education, professional…

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9
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Foundation

Operating under the name mjhs foundation, the mission of this philanthropic organization is to raise the funds necessary to support the charitable health care efforts of the organizations within the mjhs health system family. with roots…

Health
10
Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin

To promote and financially support the activities of the jewish museum berlin and similar institutions whose mission is to pursue the study of the history and culture of german-speaking jewry.

Education
11
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
12
Health Careers Futures

Primary exempt purpose - to ensure the future of southwestern pennsylvania's health care industry and to work collaboratively with all stakeholders to attract, support, and retain healthcare workers

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bryn Mawr Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Marks Colorectal Surgical Foundation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $6,094,314 · HealthLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,581,878 · HealthTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION+3 more: $292,000 · HealthJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $2,260,495 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & CH…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,210,100 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE…FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $562,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ISR…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $399,000 · PhilanthropyBRYN MAWR REHAB HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $57,710 · OtherSAUNDERS HOUSE: $50,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATIC: $15,000 · OtherPCOM: $15,000 · OtherJAFCO: $10,000 · OtherST JUDE RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherSUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Other+6 more: $12,300 · OtherZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $130,000 · AnimalsTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $35,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$8,968,192Human Services$2,260,495International$1,772,100Philanthropy$399,000Other$187,010Animals$130,000Arts & Culture$45,000

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 budgetLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $6,094,314 over 8y, 8.6% of budgetTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,581,878 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $2,260,495 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,210,100 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $562,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $399,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMAIN LINE HEALTH INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $130,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMARKS COLORECTAL SURGICAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetPHILADELPHIA JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC: $10,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetMINDING YOUR MIND: $7,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPhilabundance: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Slipper Camp: $1,000 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 LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds MAIN LINE HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds MARKS COLORECTAL SURGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
  • Who funds MINDING YOUR MIND ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds Golden Slipper Camp ↗

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…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · 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 The Barbara Brodsky Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barbara Brodsky Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 26 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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