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The Brodsky 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.

$162k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
32
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$11,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$43,810
Organizations funded a year
25 to 103
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations The Brodsky Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$162k40%
FY202332$117k25%
FY202252$130k19%
FY202142$89k50%
FY202025$51k24%
FY201945$108k42%
FY201881$136k17%
FY2017103$141kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$525kPhilanthropy$245kHuman Services$88kEducation$79kHealth$76kArts & Culture$31kSocial Science$23kFood & Nutrition$16kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 121 grantees
All grantees of The Brodsky Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Temple Emanu-El Foundation Inc$98,0005n/a
Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston$83,91050%
Jewish Family Service$50,23060%
Jewish Community Centers Association of North America$42,00010%
The Aspen Institute Inc$22,50060%
CLL Global Research Foundation$20,00040%
Baylor Health Care System Foundation$15,00010%
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc$14,92570%
Children At Risk$11,50050%
The United Way Inc$10,00020%
Houston Symphony Society$10,00020%
The Houston Food Bank$8,50070%
Congregation Beth Israel$7,1165n/a
The University of Texas Law School Foundation$6,00060%
Childbuilders$5,45032%
Givedirectly Inc$5,25070%
Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc$5,20070%
Houston Jewish Family Foundation$5,00010%
Anti-Defamation League$4,55060%
June Shelton School and Evaluation Center$4,55070%
L3 Foundation$3,80014%
Congregation Eitz Chayim Inc$3,6001n/a
Greenhill School$3,10070%
North Texas Food Bank$3,00010%
Houston Area Women's Center$3,00030%
The Irvin M Shlenker School of Congregation Beth Israel$2,7503n/a
Houston Public Media Foundation$2,70030%
Thrive School Network$2,50011%
United Way of Greater Houston$2,50010%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$2,30070%
William Marsh Rice University$2,10030%
The Clear Fund$2,00030%
Special Olympics of Texas Inc$2,00020%
New Gallery Concert Series Inc$1,80015%
Jewish Children's Regional Service$1,65030%
Holocaust Museum Houston$1,61830%
Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services Inc$1,60030%
The Center for Pursuit$1,50010%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$1,50050%
Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston$1,50010%
Tomorrow's Women$1,35030%
Galveston College Foundation$1,25020%
Congregation Emanu El$1,2503n/a
The Progressive Forum$1,10022%
The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund$1,00010%
Mickey Leland Kibbutzim Internship Foundation$1,00011%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$1,00020%
Child Advocates Inc$1,00020%
One World Surgery$1,00030%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$1,00020%
Healthcare for the Homeless-Houston$1,00010%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$1,00020%
National Network of Abortion Funds Inc$1,00010%
Central Texas Food Bank Inc$1,00010%
Board of Jewish Education Inc$1,00010%
Houston Immigration Legal ServicesCollab$1,00010%
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston$1,00020%
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston$1,00020%
BakerRipley$1,00020%
Teach for America Inc$1,00040%
Houston Hillel$85030%
Writers in the Schools$75020%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$75030%
Pursuit Foundation$6001n/a
Jewish Cemetery Association of Greater Baltimore Inc$55030%
Carroll County Mental Health Advocates$5001n/a
Fund Texas Choice$50010%
Depelchin Children's Center$50010%
Congregation Brith Shalom$5001n/a
Old Braeswood Park Corporation$5002n/a
Women on the Way Up$5001n/a
Americans for Ben-Gurion University Inc$50010%
Texas Freedom Network Education Fund$50010%
American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society Inc$50010%
The Against Malaria Foundation$50010%
Jonah Maccabee Foundation Inc$5001n/a
Texas Center for Justice and Equity$50010%
Houston Zoo Inc$50020%
Christian Community Service Center Inc$50010%
The World Union for Progressive Judaism Ltd$5001n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$45020%
Breastcancerorg$40040%
Women for Women International$40020%
World Affairs Council of Greater Houston$39810%
Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism$3501n/a
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc$35020%
Congregation Beth Yeshurun$3502n/a
Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America Inc$30010%
United States Fund for Unicef$25010%
American Jewish Committee$25010%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$25020%
Miller Theatre Advisory Board Inc$25010%
Houston Arboretum & Nature Center$2501n/a
Union for Reform Judaism$2502n/a
La Family Housing Corporation$25010%
Studio Art Quilt Assoc Inc$25010%
EQTX Equality Texas Foundation$25010%
Soup Kitchen in Provincetowninc$25010%
Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank$20010%
AARP Foundation$20020%
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft$20020%
The KWEK Society$20020%
Menil Foundation Inc$20020%
The Eric M Suhl Foundation$20010%
Aishel House Inc$2001n/a
The Vita-Living Foundation$20020%
Hias Inc$20020%
University of Houston Foundation$20010%
Finca International Inc$20020%
Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc$20020%
ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc$15010%
18 Degrees Inc$10020%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$10010%
Baylor College of Medicine$10010%
The Rose$10010%
Jane's Due Process Inc$10010%
Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation$10010%
Texas Children's Hospital$10010%
Citizens For Animal Protection Inc$10010%
Houston Humane Society$10010%
Sugar Land Baptist Church$1001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 64 recipients with no EIN on record ($416k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Brodsky Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston: $83,910 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Family Service: $50,230 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Community Centers Association of North America: $42,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Aspen Institute Inc: $22,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCLL Global Research Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $14,925 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChildren At Risk: $11,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe United Way Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Symphony Society: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Texas Law School Foundation: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChildbuilders: $5,450 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetGivedirectly Inc: $5,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $5,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Jewish Family Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $4,550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJune Shelton School and Evaluation Center: $4,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetL3 Foundation: $3,800 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetGreenhill School: $3,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Texas Food Bank: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Public Media Foundation: $2,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThrive School Network: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $2,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $2,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Clear Fund: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics of Texas Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Gallery Concert Series Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetJewish Children's Regional Service: $1,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHolocaust Museum Houston: $1,618 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSeven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services Inc: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Pursuit: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTomorrow's Women: $1,350 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGalveston College Foundation: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Progressive Forum: $1,100 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetThe Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMickey Leland Kibbutzim Internship Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChild Advocates Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOne World Surgery: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Reproductive Rights Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHealthcare for the Homeless-Houston: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Network of Abortion Funds Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 103.

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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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX41.5× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Houston Jewish Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Stanford & Joan Alexander Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · AI and Manet Schepps Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Strake Foundation · Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc

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.

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About The Brodsky Foundation

How much does The Brodsky Foundation give?
The Brodsky Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $162,110 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 103 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Brodsky Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (45%), Philanthropy (21%), Human Services (8%).
Who are The Brodsky Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Temple Emanu-El Foundation Inc ($98k), Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston ($84k), Jewish Family Service ($50k).
Does The Brodsky Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Brodsky Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Brodsky Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Houston Jewish Community Foundation.
Where is The Brodsky Foundation based?
The Brodsky Foundation is based in TX.

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 189 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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