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The Glasser Foundation Inc

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.

$522k
Granted FY2021
23
Grants FY2021
4
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fund
0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Health$270kHuman Services$171kEducation$111kCrime & Legal$50kPhilanthropy$35kEnvironment$15kYouth Development$11kReligion$8kOther$0
02FY2021 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 23 grants below total $335,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $522,100 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $187,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k14 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $84k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $215k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cornerstone Family Programs$65,000
Union County College Foundation$50,000
CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)$50,000
Imagine$50,000
Overlook Foundation$35,000
The Adult School$18,000
Great Swamp Watershed Association$10,500
Foundation for Morristown Medical Center$10,000
Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest NJ$10,000
Institute for Peace, Rutgers University$5,000
Westfield United Fund$5,000
The Westfield Foundation$5,000
Wesleyan College$3,000
Summit PBA, Thomas Glasser Scholarship Fund$3,000
Internatioal Rescue Committee for Afghan Women c/o Fiji, Bucknell University$2,600
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$209k · 7 repeat orgs$571k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
21

Total granted

$209k
$378k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+19%

Still filing today

57%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21
EducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • CF
    CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS
    2× · 2019–2021 · $85k · revenue +50%
  • GS
    Great Swamp Watershed Association
    2× · 2019–2021 · $12k · revenue +55%
  • Bucknell University
    2× · 2019–2021 · $5k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • OB
    Overlook - Brain Tumor Center
    one grant, 2019 · $225k
  • MA
    Madison Area YMCA (naming opportunity)
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • C
    CASA
    one grant, 2019 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
2
Nj State Firefighters Mutual Benevolent Assoc Inc

It is the mission of the new jersey firefighters mutual benevolent association to represent, protect, and educate the firefighters, emts, and dispatchers throughout the state of new jersey through representation at the local, state, and…

3
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
4
Waynesburg University

Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…

Education
5
Bridgewater HealthCare Foundation Inc

Support organization

Health
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

8
White Plains Hospital Medical Center

White plains hospital (wph) is a voluntary, not-for-profit health care organization with the primary mission of offering high quality, acute health care and preventive medical care to all people who live in, work in, or visit westchester…

Health
9
Gardiner Library Board of Trustees

The Gardiner Library Board of Trustees operates the public library that serves the Town of Gardiner and the surrounding areas of New York State.

Education
10
The Millicent Library

Public lending library

Education
11
Mendham Borough Library

The purpose of the library is to provide literary, cultural, and community activities to the public.

Education
12
Warren County College Foundation Inc

We serve to cultivate sustainable charitable resources, secure philanthropic grants, support capital needs, and provide educational opportunities in order to contribute to the health and vitality of our diverse community of learners.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone Family Programs and the most unlike its peers is Kemmerer Library Harding Township Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Overlook - Brain Tumor Center — $225,000 · OtherOverlook - Brain Tumor CenterImagine — $100,000 · OtherImagineCASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) — $50,000 · OtherCASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)Madison Area YMCA (naming opportunity) — $50,000 · OtherMadison Area YMCA (naming opportunity)CASA — $25,000 · Other+26 more — $113,100 · Other+26 moreCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS — $85,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE …UNION COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationUNION COUN…SAGE ELDERCARE — $10,000 · EducationSAGE ELDER…Bucknell University — $5,000 · EducationBucknell U…SKIDMORE COLLEGE — $2,500 · EducationKEMMERER LIBRARY HARDING TOWNSHIP INC — $2,500 · EducationWilliams College — $2,500 · EducationOVERLOOK FOUNDATION — $35,000 · HealthFoundation for Morristown Medical Center — $10,000 · HealthGreat Swamp Watershed Association — $12,000 · EnvironmentJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $10,000 · PhilanthropyMT PLEASANT ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $1,500 · AnimalsWESTFIELD VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD — $500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$563,100Human Services$85,000Education$72,500Health$45,000Environment$12,000Philanthropy$10,000Animals$1,500Public Safety & Disaster$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS — $85,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUNION COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOVERLOOK FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGreat Swamp Watershed Association — $12,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAGE ELDERCARE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Westfield Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEMMERER LIBRARY HARDING TOWNSHIP INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWilliams College — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMT PLEASANT ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WESTFIELD MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNew Jersey Library Association — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTFIELD VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS
  • Who funds UNION COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds OVERLOOK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Great Swamp Watershed Association
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ
  • Who funds SAGE ELDERCARE
  • Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center
  • Who funds Bucknell University
  • Who funds The Westfield Foundation
  • Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE
  • Who funds KEMMERER LIBRARY HARDING TOWNSHIP INC
  • Who funds Williams College
  • Who funds MT PLEASANT ANIMAL SHELTER INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WESTFIELD MEMORIAL LIBRARY

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.

Investors Foundation IncNJ15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Investors Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Ej Grassmann Trust · Columbia Bank Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $494k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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