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The Glasser Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

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 it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0184% 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
02FY2021 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $335,100, the rows itemized in this filing. The $522,100 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $187,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
Imagine$50,000
CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)$50,000
Union County College Foundation$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
The Westfield Foundation$5,000
Institute for Peace, Rutgers University$5,000
Westfield United Fund$5,000
Summit PBA, Thomas Glasser Scholarship Fund$3,000
Wesleyan College$3,000
Internatioal Rescue Committee for Afghan Women c/o Fiji, Bucknell University$2,600
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
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

  • 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
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.

03Its 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
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…

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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.

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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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone Family Programs; 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 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. 16 of the 44 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…Williams College: $2,500 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $2,500 · EducationKEMMERER LIBRARY HARDING TOWNSHIP INC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $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
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.

  • Who funds CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS ↗
  • Who funds UNION COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OVERLOOK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Great Swamp Watershed Association ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ ↗
  • Who funds SAGE ELDERCARE ↗
  • Who funds The Westfield Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Bucknell University ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds KEMMERER LIBRARY HARDING TOWNSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds MT PLEASANT ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WESTFIELD MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗

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 …Community Foundation …Ej Grassmann TrustColumbia Bank Foundat…The Hyde and Watson F…Verizon FoundationThe Bank of America C…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…
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.

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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