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The Brodsky Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$291k
Granted FY2024still arriving
93
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$113k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$620kReligion$475kEducation$398kPhilanthropy$397kInternational$239kHuman Services$146kCommunity Improvement$124kArts & Culture$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k86 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $147k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $113k
$250
Median grant
14
States reached
$525k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Port Jewish Center$112,966
UJA Federation Of New York$44,108
Alzheimers Foundation Of America$42,524
Friends Of The IDF$19,060
Gurwin Jewish Healthcare Foundation$15,000
The Community Synagogue$14,386
American Lebanese Syrian Assoc Char$12,070
Marcum Foundation$8,000
ALS Association$7,200
Faces$6,870
Mount Sinai South Nassau$5,965
Project Morry$5,000
Sunrise Association$4,500
Individual grant recipient$3,966
Impact Israel$2,500
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 (FY19–24, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $30 → 12%Kids Wish Network: $90 → 12%Wounded Warrior Project: $179 → 14%ISRAEL MEDICAL FUND: $720 → 17%Father Flanagan's Boys Town: $10 → 12%BOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $50 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%Kids Wish Network: $38 → 12%Wounded Warrior Project: $50 → 14%BOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%Boca West Children's Foundation: $1k → 11%BOCA WEST COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%Supplies For Success Inc: $570 → 7%SUFFOLK JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 7%SUFFOLK JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 7%SELF HELP COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 17%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $14k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $12k → 6%Sunrise Association: $11k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 6%Sunrise Association: $5k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 6%SID JACOBSON JCC: $1k → 6%Sid Jacobson JCC: $1k → 6%Sid Jacobson JCC: $860 → 6%SID JACOBSON JCC: $552 → 6%SID JACOBSON JCC: $552 → 6%PORT WASHINGTON ADULT ACTIVITIES CENTER: $100 → 6%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
NH
WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
TN
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 115 repeat orgs$278k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

115 repeat relationships: 61 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

115
129

Total granted

$2.4M
$265k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+20%

Still filing today

56%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $330k · revenue +22%
  • AF
    ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $292k · revenue +64%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    7× · 2018–2024 · $160k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CITY COLLEGE FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $48k · revenue -55%
  • PH
    Phoenix House New York
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • PW
    PORT WASHINGTON LIBRARY IATAS
    one grant, 2021 · $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
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
2
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
3
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
4
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
5
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
6
American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology Inc

The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)

International
7
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
8
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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9
Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy
10
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
11
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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12
Yeshiva University High Schools

The yeshiva university high schools has as its educational mission to teach and perpetuate the values of torah and secular studies. see schedule o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Ed 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

130 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. 130 of the 278 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
127/130
Grantees still filing
80/130
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PORT JEWISH CENTER: $326,480 · OtherPORT JEWISH CENTERGURWIN JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $157,042 · OtherGURWIN JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE: $128,579 · OtherCOMMUNITY SYNAGOGUEPORT WASHINGTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $85,119 · OtherPORT WASHINGTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICTALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC: $80,700 · OtherALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC+138 more: $689,128 · Other+138 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $329,688 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH A…MARCUM FOUNDATION INC: $35,643 · PhilanthropyMARCUM FOUNDATI…+9 more: $10,416 · PhilanthropyALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $291,820 · HealthALZHEIMER'S …+10 more: $13,816 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $160,052 · InternationalFRIENDS OF…IMPACTISRAEL INC: $42,510 · InternationalIMPACTISRA…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $23,740 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT…+5 more: $10,627 · InternationalSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $58,670 · Human ServicesSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesBOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION FKA BOCA WEST COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $9,813 · Human ServicesCHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $4,036 · Human ServicesSUFFOLK Y JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $4,000 · Human Services+6 more: $3,344 · Human ServicesSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $65,000 · EducationEmory University: $14,500 · EducationPORT WASHINGTON LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION: $6,205 · EducationBRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE ALUMNI FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Education+8 more: $9,530 · EducationCHIEF EXECUTIVES ORGANIZATION INC: $64,867 · Community Improvement+1 more: $250 · Community Improvement
Other$1,467,048Philanthropy$375,747Health$305,636International$236,929Human Services$114,863Education$110,235Community Improvement$65,117

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $329,688 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $291,820 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $160,052 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC: $80,700 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHIEF EXECUTIVES ORGANIZATION INC: $64,867 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $58,670 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CITY COLLEGE FUND: $48,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC: $42,510 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $38,070 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARCUM FOUNDATION INC: $35,643 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetTHE PURRFECT KITTY LTD: $31,500 over 2y, 38% of budgetSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $23,740 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $14,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORT WASHINGTON LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION FKA BOCA WEST COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $9,813 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $9,792 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $9,480 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPORT WASHINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $7,450 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $7,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION: $6,205 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLEN HEAD CHARITY FUND: $5,400 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetPORT WASHINGTON YOUTH ACTIVITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $4,036 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFOLK Y JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNassau County Police Department Foundation Inc: $3,960 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCRISTO REY BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL: $3,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLISA BETH GERSTMAN FOUNDATION: $3,400 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC: $3,300 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetRESIDENTS FOR A MORE BEAUTIFUL PORT WASHINGTON INC: $3,125 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $2,916 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $2,756 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $2,721 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $2,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPORT WASHINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $2,550 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetALGEMEINER INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY: $2,410 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTRAWBERRY MINISTRIES: $2,170 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER: $2,050 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNew England College: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC: $1,767 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds ALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CHIEF EXECUTIVES ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CITY COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MARCUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PURRFECT KITTY LTD ↗
  • Who funds SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds PORT WASHINGTON LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION FKA BOCA WEST COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗

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.

Peter & Jeri Dejana FoundationNY38.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Peter & Jeri Dejana Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Pamela and Laurence Tarica Foundation · The Jane & Martin Schwartz Family Foundation · Fjc · Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Murray Hazan Family Foundation · Alpert Family Foundation II · The Donald and Barbara Zucker Family Foundation · The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs 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 Brodsky Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brodsky Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Save Ellis Island Inc: 10% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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Find your warmest path to The Brodsky Family 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 278 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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