· Private foundation
The Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $256k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $467k
- $250k+1 grant · $410k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $410,000 |
| TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| HIRSCHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN | $100,000 |
| TWO EAST SIXTY SECOND STREET FOUNDATION | $66,000 |
| LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE & ELISABETH IRWIN | $60,620 |
| HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA | $60,000 |
| HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE | $38,250 |
| TEMPLE EMANU-EL PHILANTHROPIC FUND | $35,100 |
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO | $25,000 |
| EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF MOMA | $20,000 |
| WOODROW WILSON CENTER | $20,000 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $12,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +32% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 11 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k 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
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART9× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +58%
- TATATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $706k · revenue +157%
- TBTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL4× · 2017–2021 · $400k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S HEALTHone grant, 2024 · $125k · 25% of their budget
- HFHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYone grant, 2022 · $100k
- NYNew York Universitygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +76%
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.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
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…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…
Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mashomack Community Fund 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 45 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
131 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. 131 of the 200 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 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BREARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds TWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CASITA MARIA INC ↗
- Who funds STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FONDATION DE FRANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT RENEWAL INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends of the Centre Pompidou Inc ↗
- Who funds GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC ↗
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: Ag Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Cowles Charitable Trust · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Leon Levy Foundation · Terra Foundation for American Art · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Hillman Family Foundations
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 Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% 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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