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The Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$134k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$20k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$628kScience & Tech$40kCommunity Improvement$10kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
$7,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$328k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PRODUCER HUB INC: $8k → 11%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

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
NC
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$329k · 16 repeat orgs$393k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
33

Total granted

$329k
$296k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+38%

Still filing today

75%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • JP
    JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC
    4× · 2018–2025 · $39k · revenue +119%
  • WA
    WORKS AND PROCESS INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $36k · revenue +101%
  • PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2023–2025 · $24k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • LA
    LMP ART LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
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
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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2
The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc
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3
Adele Myers and Dancers

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…

Public Benefit
4
New Dance Alliance Inc

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…

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5
Site-Specicific Dances Inc

Dance and music performances held in specific sites, often of historic significance, often free and open to the public

Arts & Culture
6
Indianapolis Movement Arts Collective

A non-profit arts organization supporting and connecting the indianapolis community through dance and movement.

Arts & Culture
7
Alison Cook Beatty Dance Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Michiyaya Dance Company Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Herman Cornejo the State of the Art

To creatively explore the intersection

Arts & Culture
10
Alma Nyc Dance Company Inc
Arts & Culture
11
Threshold Dance Projects Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Tickle the Sleeping Giant Inc

To create contemporary dance works

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Battery Dance Corporatin Dba Battery D; 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.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 59 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
25/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW ARTS CENTER: $42,500 · OtherNEW ARTS CENTERNY CITY CENTER: $33,500 · OtherNY CITY CENTERNY THEATER WORKSHOP: $23,000 · OtherNY THEATER WORKSHOPBALLET COLLECTIVE: $22,000 · OtherBALLET COLLECTIVEIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLMP ART LLC: $20,000 · OtherLMP ART LLCIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientADRIENNE WESTWOOD PROJECTS: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · Other+10 more: $44,399 · Other+10 moreJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $39,150 · Arts & CultureJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INCWORKS AND PROCESS INC: $36,000 · Arts & CultureWORKS AND PROCESS INCPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $23,750 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATIONGALLIM DANCE COMPANY INC: $23,000 · Arts & CultureGALLIM DANCE COMPANY INCARIEL RIVKA DANCE INC: $16,500 · Arts & CulturePAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureUNIQUE PROJECTS INC: $13,500 · Arts & CultureJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $12,800 · Arts & Culture+23 more: $154,950 · Arts & Culture+23 moreHelen Simoneau Danse Inc: $15,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $10,000 · EducationPRODUCER HUB INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesCITY HARVEST INC: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$350,399Arts & Culture$334,650Education$25,000Human Services$7,500Food & Nutrition$5,000

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 budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $39,150 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORKS AND PROCESS INC: $36,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $23,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGALLIM DANCE COMPANY INC: $23,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetARIEL RIVKA DANCE INC: $16,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetHelen Simoneau Danse Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetPAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIQUE PROJECTS INC: $13,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $12,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPERIAPSIS MUSIC AND DANCE INC: $10,050 over 4y, 13% of budgetTHE MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMANDA&JAMES INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetPalissimo Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAGAMALA DANCE: $9,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGASPARD&DANCERS INC: $8,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetNEW CHAMBER BALLET INC: $8,500 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetChrisMastersDance Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetRIRIE-WOODBURY DANCE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMORBALLET INC: $7,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHIRD COAST PERCUSSION NFP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBATTERY DANCE CORPORATIN DBA BATTERY D: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIVY BALDWIN DANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetDANCING IN THE STREETS INC: $4,400 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTerpsicorps Theatre of Dance: $4,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBALLETX: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SYMPHONY SPACE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

Music & Dance Foundat…The Shubert Foundatio…Mid Atlantic Arts IncThe Harkness Foundati…Arnhold Foundation IncNew Music USA IncNew England Foundatio…The Howard Gilman Fou…Ibm International Fou…The Amphion Foundatio…Mertz Gilmore Foundat…The Hyde and Watson F…
Music & Dance Foundation Inc Co Abruzzo Accounting LLCNJ24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Charles and Joan Gross Family 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 59 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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