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The Brodsky Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$44k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $147k
$11,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVELYN RUBENSTEIN JCC OF HOUSTON$43,810
JCC ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA$42,000
TEMPLE EMANU-EL FOUNDATION INC$25,500
SMITH COLLEGE-ALUMNAE FUND$25,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$11,000
CLL GLOBAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION$5,000
L3 FOUNDATION$3,800
UNITED WAY OF GREATER HOUSTON$2,500
CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL$2,000
INTERFAITH MINISTRIES GREATER HOUSTON$1,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JCC ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $42k → 17%THE KWEK SOCEITY: $100 → 7%JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE: $250 → 15%THE KWEK SOCIETY: $100 → 7%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $11k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE-HOUSTON: $10k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE-HOUSTON: $10k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE-HOUSTON: $6k → 16%HOUSTON JEWISH FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%THE CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $2k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $1k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $1k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $1k → 16%THE CENTER FOUNDATION: $600 → 16%HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS HOUSTON: $1k → 16%BAKER RIPLEY: $500 → 16%VITA-LIVING FOUNDATION: $100 → 16%VITA-LIVING FOUNDATION: $100 → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $500 → 16%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

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$784k · 96 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

96 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 90 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

96
85

Total granted

$784k
$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+24%

Still filing today

59%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureInternationalCivil 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • ER
    Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston
    5× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +9%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +15%
  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $23k · revenue +231%

Funded once

  • BH
    Baylor Health Care System Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +80%
  • CF
    COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • ER
    EVELYN RUBENSTEIN JCC CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
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
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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2
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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3
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
4
American Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter

American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.

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5
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
6
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
7
Community Information Now

Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.

Community Improvement
8
Mhs Physicians of Texas

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
9
Collaborative for Children

The mission of Collaborative for Children is to meaningfully improve the quality of early childhood education and care for Greater Houston's children through those most influential in their lives.

Human Services
10
The Methodist Hospital Foundation

Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…

Health
11
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
12
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

Joint Commission evaluates and accredits health care organizations and programs across the United States to ensure compliance with rigorous standards of quality and safety, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is New Gallery Concert Series 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

111 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. 111 of the 189 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/111
Grantees still filing
87/111
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Jewish Federation of Greater Houston: $215,450 · OtherJewish Federation of Greater HoustonJCC ASSOCIATION: $127,000 · OtherJCC ASSOCIATIONTEMPLE EMANU-EL FOUNDATION INC: $98,000 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-EL FOUNDATION INCEVELYN RUBENSTEIN JCC HOUSTON: $77,250 · OtherEVELYN RUBENSTEIN JCC HOUSTONTEMPLE EMANU-EL: $52,000 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-ELSMITH COLLEGE-ALUMNAE FUND: $31,800 · Other+128 more: $230,129 · Other+128 moreJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $50,230 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMI…JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $42,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMM…GIVEDIRECTLY INC: $5,250 · Human ServicesHOUSTON JEWISH FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human Services+11 more: $10,350 · Human Services+11 moreEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston: $83,910 · Religion+2 more: $1,850 · ReligionCLL Global Research Foundation: $20,000 · HealthBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $15,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $14,925 · HealthCHILDBUILDERS: $5,450 · HealthL3 FOUNDATION: $3,800 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,300 · Health+9 more: $5,150 · HealthTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $22,500 · Social ScienceThe University of Texas Law School Foundation: $6,000 · EducationJUNE SHELTON SCHOOL AND EVALUATION CENTER: $4,550 · EducationGREENHILL SCHOOL: $3,100 · EducationThrive School Network: $2,500 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice University: $2,100 · EducationGalveston College Foundation: $1,250 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $1,000 · EducationWriters in the Schools: $750 · Education+3 more: $800 · EducationHouston Symphony Society: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Public Media Foundation: $2,700 · Arts & CultureNEW GALLERY CONCERT SERIES INC: $1,800 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: $1,618 · Arts & CultureTHE PROGRESSIVE FORUM: $1,100 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $900 · Arts & Culture
Other$831,629Human Services$112,830Religion$85,760Health$66,625Social Science$22,500Education$22,050Arts & Culture$19,118

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 budgetJewish Federation of Greater Houston: $215,450 over 7y, 0.2% of 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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS: $8,180 over 2y, 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 budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
  • Who funds Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds CLL Global Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Baylor Health Care System Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ↗
  • Who funds Children At Risk ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS ↗
  • Who funds The University of Texas Law School Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHILDBUILDERS ↗
  • Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
  • Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON JEWISH FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds JUNE SHELTON SCHOOL AND EVALUATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds L3 FOUNDATION ↗

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 Commu…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Houston Jewish Commun…Shell USA Company Fou…Houston Endowment IncThe Stanford & Joan A…The Brown Foundation …AI and Manet Schepps …Mechia FoundationStrake FoundationShirley and David Too…Centerpoint Energy Fo…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 60%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • 18 Degrees Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home