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The Brodsky Charitable Foundation Trust at a glance

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The Brodsky Charitable Foundation Trust

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.

$46k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Animals$207kEnvironment$51kEducation$12kInternational$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Animals Asia$4,000
Elephant Havens Wildlife Foundation$4,000
Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust$3,000
Safe Sloth Bear IUCN Bear Specialist Group$3,000
Intl Fund for Animal Welfare$2,000
Greater Yellowstone Coalition$2,000
Defenders of Wildlife$2,000
Center for Biological Diversity$2,000
Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Program$2,000
Save the Chimps$2,000
Painted Dog Fd co Wildlife Conservation$2,000
Lion Recovery Fund co Wildlife Conservation$2,000
NC Wildlife Federation$2,000
The Red Panda Network$2,000
Animal Legal Defense Fund$2,000
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 (FY18–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BIG CAT RESCUE: $3k → 13%BIG CAT RESCUE: $2k → 13%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

VT
WA
ID
MT
MN
NY
MA
NV
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
DE
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$223k · 28 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
13

Total granted

$223k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+31%

Still filing today

89%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • PC
    PANTHERA CORPORATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +64%
  • R9
    Rhino 911
    4× · 2017–2020 · $13k · revenue +425%
  • IW
    INTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER
    4× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • EW
    ELEPHANT WILDLIFE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
  • AC
    AMERICAN CETACEAN SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • Sea Turtle Conservancy
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -16%
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Wildlife Alliance Inc

Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…

Animals
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
5
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
6
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
7
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
8
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
9
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
10
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
11
Wildlife Sos

Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.

Animals
12
International Primate Protection League

Protecting the world's remaining primates by monitoring and exposing illegal trade, supporting a worldwide network of overseas sanctuaries and ngo's, publicising the plight of abused primates, and operating a sanctuary for resued gibbons.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Cat Rescue Corp; the most unlike its peers is Rhino 911. 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

33 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. 33 of the 53 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
24/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PANTHERA CORPORATION: $15,000 · AnimalsPANTHERA CORPORATIONRhino 911: $13,000 · AnimalsRhino 911INTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER: $12,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTERSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $12,000 · AnimalsSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INCDefenders of Wildlife: $11,000 · AnimalsDefenders of WildlifeAnimal Welfare Association Inc: $10,000 · AnimalsAnimal Welfare Association IncINTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION: $9,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATIONINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $8,000 · AnimalsELEPHANT HAVENS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $8,000 · AnimalsANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $7,000 · AnimalsAKASHINGA INC: $7,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc: $6,000 · AnimalsSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $6,000 · Animals+9 more: $27,000 · Animals+9 moreVictoria Falls Wildlife Trust: $12,000 · OtherVictoria Falls Wildlife TrustTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $12,000 · OtherTHE PEREGRINE FUND INCANIMAL LEAGUE DEFENSE FUND: $11,000 · OtherANIMAL LEAGUE DEFENSE FUNDELEPHANT WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherELEPHANT WILDLIFE FOUNDATIONAMERICAN CETACEAN SOCIETY: $4,000 · OtherAnimals Asia: $4,000 · OtherCHESED FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · OtherSafe Sloth Bear IUCN Bear Specialist Group: $3,000 · Other+15 more: $22,000 · Other+15 moreOCEANA INC: $13,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INCNorth Carolina Wildlife Federation Inc: $6,000 · EnvironmentNorth Caro…GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $4,000 · EnvironmentGREATER YE…OCEAN CONSERVANCY: $2,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONS…HAWKQUEST: $10,000 · EducationBIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $5,000 · Human ServicesSEA TURTLE INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureSea Turtle Conservancy: $2,000 · International
Animals$151,000Other$77,000Environment$25,000Education$10,000Human Services$5,000Arts & Culture$3,000International$2,000

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 budgetPANTHERA CORPORATION: $15,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANA INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER: $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Welfare Association Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHAWKQUEST: $10,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetELEPHANT HAVENS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAKASHINGA INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Carolina Wildlife Federation Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWild Horizons Wildlife Orphanage and Sanctuary: $5,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSnow Leopard Conservancy: $5,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE CHIMPS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEA TURTLE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSea Turtle Conservancy: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAW OF THE WILD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Network for GoodThe Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…
Network for GoodDC12.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Sea Turtle Conservancy: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 53 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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