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The Brandt Jackson Foundation at a glance

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The Brandt Jackson 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.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.8MArts & Culture$621kScience & Tech$145kPhilanthropy$110kEducation$108kAnimals$41kInternational$20kCivil Rights$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $331k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
$40,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$70M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UPPER WEST SIDE CINEMA CENTER INC$500,000
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$250,000
BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC$250,000
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$250,000
AN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INC$200,000
ENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE$150,000
THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC$150,000
CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC$150,000
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW$125,000
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING$125,000
FRACTURED ATLAS INC$100,000
WRITERS ROOM INC$100,000
MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC$100,000
UTAH FILM CENTER$50,000
AFRICAN COMMUNITY AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC$50,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $15k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TRANSFORMA THEATRE INC: $5k → 17%LIFE STORY CLUB: $10k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
VA
FL
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 21 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
26

Total granted

$3.7M
$223k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

95%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentAnimalsScience & TechHealthOther
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

  • BL
    BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $305k · revenue +12%
  • PF
    PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $136k · revenue +82%
  • LP
    LILITH PUBLICATIONS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $95k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • IS
    IMAGINE SCIENCE FILMS CORP
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0% · 50% of their budget
  • WM
    WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +7%
  • TL
    Theater Labrador Inc dba New Georgesgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +113%
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
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
2
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc

Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
5
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
6
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
7
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
10
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
11
Parity Productions Inc
Arts & Culture
12
The New Group Inc

The new group is an artist-driven company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. while constantly evolving, we maintain an ensemble approach to all our work and an articulated style of emotional…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is An Claidheamh Soluis Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 76 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
31/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UPPER WEST SIDE CINEMA CENTER INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureUPPER WEST SIDE CINEMA CENTER INCUTAH FILM CENTER: $325,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTERBELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC: $305,000 · Arts & CultureBELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INCAN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INC: $209,741 · Arts & CultureAN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INCThe Writers Room: $200,000 · Arts & CultureThe Writers RoomENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE: $150,000 · Arts & CultureENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGETHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INCTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INCFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $102,717 · Arts & CultureLILITH PUBLICATIONS INC: $95,000 · Arts & Culture+17 more: $282,810 · Arts & Culture+17 moreTRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW: $2,007,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF…IMAGINE SCIENCE FILMS CORP: $100,000 · OtherMARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC: $100,000 · Other+30 more: $316,220 · Other+30 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $505,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY …+1 more: $1,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $135,622 · AnimalsEQUUS FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 · AnimalsDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $125,000 · PhilanthropyENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyGABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropySCIENCE COMMUNICATION LAB INC: $70,000 · Science & TechWORLD SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $39,400 · Science & Tech+1 more: $1,000 · Science & TechBARNARD COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationGREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC: $50,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $3,250 · Education
Arts & Culture$2,470,268Other$2,523,720Community Improvement$506,000Animals$240,622Philanthropy$240,000Science & Tech$110,400Education$108,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $505,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $325,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC: $305,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetAN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INC: $209,741 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetThe Writers Room: $200,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $135,622 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $102,717 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMAGINE SCIENCE FILMS CORP: $100,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetLILITH PUBLICATIONS INC: $95,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetSCIENCE COMMUNICATION LAB INC: $70,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUNIONDOCS INC: $55,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetEQUUS FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITY AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNYC FIRST Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $39,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTheater Labrador Inc dba New Georges: $25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $24,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC: $23,310 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASTERVOICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC: $12,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC: $10,870 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELLUMINATE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSFORMA THEATRE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetDupuytren Research Group Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPOUND RIDGE LIONS AMBULANCE CORPS: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMAGANSETT VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUNA STAGE COMPANY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE: $2,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOUND RIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENTINC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAROL TAMBOR THEATRICAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Andrew Sabin Family F…The Hilaria and Alec …National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …
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

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 Brandt Jackson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brandt Jackson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 76 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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