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The Brooklyn Nets & New York Liberty 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.

$443k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$694kFood & Nutrition$545kEducation$510kPhilanthropy$499kHousing & Shelter$226kScience & Tech$200kCivil Rights$177kYouth Development$176kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $413k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$157k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$200,000
LEVY$112,876
JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION$50,000
THE CELLUS FOUNDATION$50,000
THE ROOTS FUND INC$10,000
KALEIDOSCOPE DREAMS FOUNDATION$10,000
HARVARD BLACK LAW STUDENTS ASSOCATIONS$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $256k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE BOOK FAIIRIES: $5k → 6%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER: $12k → 20%STONEWALL INN GIVES BACK INITIATIVE INCORPORATED: $5k → 17%ASPIRA OF NEW YORK: $10k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $10k → 17%CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $200k → 20%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER: $14k → 20%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

NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
DC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 28% of The Brooklyn Nets & New York Liberty Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 72% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 64%.

The Brooklyn Nets & New York Liberty Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 11 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
62

Total granted

$1.7M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+5%

Still filing today

64%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $600k · revenue +2%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $226k · revenue +40%
  • TC
    THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $226k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • SI
    SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +3%
  • TF
    THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +93%
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
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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4
New York University

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.

Education
5
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
6
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
7
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
8
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
9
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
10
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
11
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
12
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc; the most unlike its peers is Backline Care Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 78 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/40
Grantees still filing
22/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $200,000 · OtherSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $200,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INCTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $150,000 · OtherTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCLEVY: $112,876 · OtherLEVYCELLUS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · OtherCELLUS FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient: $97,367 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $90,655 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $75,000 · Other+45 more: $632,741 · Other+45 moreSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $600,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTI…SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $72,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENT…+2 more: $23,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CARES INC: $225,615 · PhilanthropyNEW YORK CARES…UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY: $225,615 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …+3 more: $23,152 · PhilanthropyROOTS FUND INC: $160,000 · EducationROOTS FUND…HUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC: $100,000 · EducationHUDSON LIN…HEBREW EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF BROOKLYN: $36,000 · EducationHEBREW EDU…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $15,000 · EducationNEW YORK CITY TOURISM FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Education+2 more: $20,000 · Education+2 moreTHE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $225,615 · Human ServicesASPIRA OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $10,000 · Human Services+2 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $100,000 · Civil RightsMAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 · HealthTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $10,000 · HealthBACKLINE CARE INC: $4,500 · Health
Other$1,658,639Arts & Culture$695,000Philanthropy$474,382Education$346,000Human Services$255,615Civil Rights$100,000Health$64,500

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 budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CARES INC: $225,615 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY: $225,615 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $225,615 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetROOTS FUND INC: $160,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $72,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY OF MEDICAL & PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES INC DBA RaisingHealth Partners: $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHEBREW EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF BROOKLYN: $36,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetA LITTLE PIECE OF LIGHT INC: $30,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBORO PARK JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY TOURISM FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetONE BROOKLYN FUND INC: $11,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOakland Parks and Recreation Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD EDUCATION FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASPIRA OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIS LONG FOUNDATION: $8,152 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOOK FAIRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetREAD AHEAD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetATHLETE ALLY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBACKLINE CARE INC: $4,500 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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…The New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundUnited Jewish Appeal-…The Ford FoundationAmerican Express Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Ayco Charitable F…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY16.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · The Ford Foundation · American Express Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Brooklyn Nets & New York Liberty Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brooklyn Nets & New York Liberty Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Brooklyn Nets & New York Liberty Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Brooklyn Nets & New York Liberty 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 78 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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