· Private foundation
The Brodsky Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $414k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $855k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMHERST COLLEGE | $150,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $145,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH | $100,000 |
| NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC | $90,000 |
| KATY DONOR ADVISED FUND | $64,000 |
| THOMAS DONOR ADVISED FUND | $64,000 |
| TAM DONOR ADVISED FUND | $64,000 |
| DEAN DONOR ADVISED FUND | $64,000 |
| ALEXANDER DONOR ADVISED FUND | $64,000 |
| FOS FEMINISTA | $50,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $45,000 |
| PREP FOR PREP | $40,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $40,000 |
| YMHA 92ND STREET | $40,000 |
| EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC | $40,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TPTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $990k · revenue +27%
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC6× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +76%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART4× · 2022–2025 · $280k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- WCWEILL CORNELL- HYPERTENSION CENTERone grant, 2017 · $150k
- NYNEW YORK PHILHARMONIC BRODSKY CONCERTone grant, 2017 · $100k
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NEW YORK INCone grant, 2021 · $45k
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.
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 69 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PIATIGORSKY FOUNDATION D/B/A PF CLASSICAL ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MACULA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICAN LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Potomac School ↗
- Who funds SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge: 100% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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