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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
Itemized grants FY2021
22
Organizations funded FY2021
68%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$335k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$65,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 28
FY2019 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
4
Total assets, FY2021
$8.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 68% of the organizations The Glasser Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202122$325k68%
FY201928$455kn/a
84% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($557k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Glasser Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSage Eldercare: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Westfield Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBucknell University: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSkidmore College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKemmerer Library Harding Township Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 budgetWestfield Volunteer Rescue Squad: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNew Jersey Library Association: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

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

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.

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About The Glasser Foundation Inc

How much does The Glasser Foundation Inc give?
The Glasser Foundation Inc reported 23 itemized grants totaling $335,100, out of $522,100 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2021.
What does The Glasser Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2021, its largest causes are Health (9%), Human Services (6%), Education (4%).
Who are The Glasser Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2021: Cornerstone Family Programs ($85k), Union County College Foundation ($50k), Overlook Foundation ($35k).
Does The Glasser Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 68% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Glasser Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Glasser Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Investors Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of New Jersey, Ej Grassmann Trust.
Where is The Glasser Foundation Inc based?
The Glasser Foundation Inc is based in NJ.

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 44 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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