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The Brandt Jackson 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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$1.8MArts & Culture$621kScience & Tech$145kPhilanthropy$110kEducation$108kAnimals$41kInternational$20kCivil Rights$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $305k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $500k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.8M
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$70M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW$1,750,000
UTAH FILM CENTER$200,000
WRITERS ROOM INC$100,000
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION$50,000
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW$50,000
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION$50,000
IMAGINE SCIENCE FILMS CORP$50,000
SCIENCE COMMUNICATION LAB INC$30,000
WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC$30,000
BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC$30,000
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW$30,000
UTAH FILM CENTER$25,000
THEATER LABRADOR INC$25,000
IMAGINE SCIENCE FILMS CORP$25,000
IMAGINE SCIENCE FILMS CORP$25,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TRANSFORMA THEATRE INC: $5k → 17%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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
VA
FL

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 11 repeat orgs$612k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$2.1M
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+18%

Still filing today

91%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $591k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureScience & TechEducationHealthAnimalsEmploymentOther

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

  • LP
    LILITH PUBLICATIONS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +7%
  • BL
    BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +12%
  • PF
    PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $36k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • WS
    WORLD SCIENCE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue -51%
  • JP
    JACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +18%
  • CT
    CAROL TAMBOR THEATRICAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -109%

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 Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
2
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
3
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
4
Institute of Fine Arts Foundation

Supports the nyu institute of fine arts, a division of the nyu graduate school of arts and science; which is devoted to graduate teaching and research in the history of art and archeology and the conservation of works of art.

5
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
6
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
7
Film At Lincoln Center Inc

Film at lincoln center, inc. was formed to develop, stimulate and support the art of film and related media by the presentation of film festivals and year-round film programming at lincoln center or elsewhere; the showing of selected…

Arts & Culture
8
Rockaway Film Festival

Rockaway film festival presents cinema and other arts at the coastal edge of new york city, joining artists and audiences for unique collective experiences.

Arts & Culture
9
American Repertory Theatre Co Inc

Seeks to expand the boundaries of theater, producing, performing and presenting works of literary, experimental and educational value. provide a home for outstanding artists, a training ground for young artists (including an extensive…

Arts & Culture
10
White Columns Inc

White columns identifies significant emerging and under-represented visual artists and encourages their creative and professional development through the presentation of group and solo exhibitions, an online curated artists registry, and…

Arts & Culture
11
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

12
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts North America Inc

The specific purposes for which bafta na is organized is to promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among individuals employed professionally in film and television production and allied industries, to create and…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is An Claidheamh Soluis Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPerforming Arts Organizatio…Advocacy and Social ChangeDog Rescue and WelfareJewish Community Organizati…Family Philanthropic Founda…First Responder Support Org…Community Service Organizat…Community Health Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%33%20–35yr12%33%35–55yr12%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr19%38%20–35yr12%36%35–55yr12%14%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
13%
13,985/107,007

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.

04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 50 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
20/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW — $1,852,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEWIMAGINE SCIENCE FILMS CORP — $100,000 · Other+22 more — $62,220 · OtherUTAH FILM CENTER — $225,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTERThe Writers Room — $100,000 · Arts & CultureThe Writers RoomLILITH PUBLICATIONS INC — $70,000 · Arts & CultureLILITH PUBLICATIONS INCBELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureBELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS …WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTheater Labrador Inc dba New Georges — $25,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC — $23,310 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $46,958 · Arts & Culture+7 moreENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyGABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropySCIENCE COMMUNICATION LAB INC — $30,000 · Science & TechWORLD SCIENCE FOUNDATION — $14,400 · Science & Tech+1 more — $1,000 · Science & TechPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $35,622 · AnimalsEQUUS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · AnimalsFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsTrustees of Tufts College — $5,000 · EducationLUNA STAGE COMPANY INC — $3,000 · Education+1 more — $250 · Education
Other$2,014,720Arts & Culture$600,268Philanthropy$115,000Science & Tech$45,400Animals$40,622Civil Rights$10,000Education$8,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $225,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetIMAGINE SCIENCE FILMS CORP — $100,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetThe Writers Room — $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLILITH PUBLICATIONS INC — $70,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetBELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC — $55,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $35,622 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE COMMUNICATION LAB INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTheater Labrador Inc dba New Georges — $25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC — $23,310 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMASTERVOICES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) — $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD SCIENCE FOUNDATION — $14,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INC — $9,741 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC — $7,870 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSFORMA THEATRE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetELLUMINATE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUUS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDupuytren Research Group Inc — $3,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLUNA STAGE COMPANY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $2,717 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE — $2,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAROL TAMBOR THEATRICAL FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOUND RIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENTINC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPOUND RIDGE LIONS AMBULANCE CORPS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORTHLESS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOUND RIDGE LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEAST HAMPTON VILLAGE AMBULANCE INC ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMAGANSETT VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMAGANSETT HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMAGANSETT FREE LIBRARY — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $250 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.

Jewish Communal FundNY19.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Andrew Sabin Family Foundation · The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Brandt Jackson 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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How do I get to The Brandt Jackson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Brandt Jackson 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 50 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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