· Private foundation
The Charles and Joan Gross 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| ADRIENNE WESTWOOD PROJECTS | $15,000 |
| GALLIM DANCE COMPANY INC | $10,000 |
| NEW ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| RAGAMALA DANCE | $9,500 |
| PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET | $8,750 |
| PRODUCER HUB INC | $7,500 |
| AVID DANCE CORP | $6,000 |
| BATTERY DANCE CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS INC | $5,000 |
| IVY BALDWIN DANCE | $5,000 |
| TERPSICORPS THEATRE OF DANCE | $4,000 |
| JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC | $4,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 10 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, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- JPJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC4× · 2018–2025 · $39k · revenue +119%
- WAWORKS AND PROCESS INC5× · 2019–2024 · $36k · revenue +64%
PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION2× · 2023–2025 · $24k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Adele Myers and Dancers is a professional national touring dance theater company that suppports Miami-based dance artists at early stages of their careers by offering a commission for new work, mentorship, and performance opportunities in…
New Dance Alliance is a performing arts nonprofit. Our mission, from the earliest days, has been to support experimental movement-based artists. In recent years, we have shifted our focus, making an explicit commitment to equity and…
Dance and music performances held in specific sites, often of historic significance, often free and open to the public
A non-profit arts organization supporting and connecting the indianapolis community through dance and movement.
Alison Cook Beatty Dance is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dance company based in New York City. Founded in 2012, the company is a classically-based modern dance company exploring the universal human condition through expansive and…
The mission of MICHIYAYA Dance is to present multidisciplinary performances that inspire and empower people with limitless boundaries. In addition to performances, they offer accessible, educational public initiatives nurturing voices and…
To creatively explore the intersection
To nurture a personal commitment to dance as a life-long process of discovery through live performance of original choreography, interactive educational residencies, outreach programs, and digital media, and to create through the…
To create contemporary dance works
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Battery Dance Corporatin Dba Battery D and the most unlike its peers is City Harvest Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 59 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds WORKS AND PROCESS INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GALLIM DANCE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds ARIEL RIVKA DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Helen Simoneau Danse Inc ↗
- Who funds PAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIQUE PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PERIAPSIS MUSIC AND DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Palissimo Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMANDA&JAMES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RAGAMALA DANCE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CHAMBER BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds GASPARD&DANCERS INC ↗
- Who funds ChrisMastersDance Inc ↗
- Who funds PRODUCER HUB INC ↗
- Who funds MORBALLET INC ↗
- Who funds RIRIE-WOODBURY DANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AVID Dance Corp ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Music & Dance Foundation Inc Co Abruzzo Accounting LLC · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · Arnhold Foundation Inc · New Music USA Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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