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The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation Trust at a glance

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The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation Trust

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.

$107k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$975kEducation$409kArts & Culture$300kRecreation & Sports$187kHealth$57kPublic Safety & Disaster$28kAnimals$5kInternational$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FELIX VENTURES FOUNDATION$85,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL$4,500
LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE$2,500
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA$2,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$2,000
USO$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $53k → 12%JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER: $10k → 16%MOUNTAINS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $5k → 14%WILLIAM WORKMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $40k → 14%SKIDMORE COLLEGE: $40k → 7%AMERICAN ACADEMYDRAMATIC ARTS: $35k → 17%USA DIVING FOUNDATION: $8k → 16%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $40k → 12%JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER: $5k → 16%WILLIAM WORKMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $15k → 14%SKIDMORE COLLEGE: $30k → 7%AMERICAN ACADEMYDRAMATIC ARTS: $30k → 17%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $40k → 12%SKIDMORE COLLEGE: $20k → 7%AMERICAN ACADEMYDRAMATIC ARTS: $23k → 17%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $28k → 12%WORKMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $9k → 14%AMERICAN ACADEMYDRAMATIC ARTS: $17k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $20k → 17%WILLIAM WORKMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $8k → 14%WORKMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $6k → 14%LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONICOPERA: $26k → 14%LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONICOPERA: $20k → 14%LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONICOPERA: $20k → 14%LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONICOPERA: $20k → 14%LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONICOPERA: $19k → 14%LA PHILHARMONIC: $10k → 14%LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONICOPERA: $10k → 14%LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONICOPERA: $10k → 14%CENTRE THEATER GROUP: $8k → 14%LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE: $10k → 14%FELIX VENTURES FOUNDATION: $170k → 14%FELIX VENTURES FOUNDATION: $140k → 14%FELIX VENTURES FOUNDATION: $132k → 14%FELIX VENTURES FOUNDATION: $130k → 14%FELIX VENTURES FOUNDATION: $115k → 14%FELIX VENTURES FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%FELIX VENTURES FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%FELIX VENTURES FOUNDATION: $85k → 14%ROSE BOWL AQUATIC CENTER: $40k → 14%ROSE BOWL AQUATIC CENTER: $35k → 14%ROSE BOWL AQUATIC CENTER: $30k → 14%ROSE BOWL AQUATIC CENTER: $30k → 14%ROSE BOWL AQUATIC CENTER: $25k → 14%ROSE BOWL AQUATIC CENTER: $18k → 14%LA COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 14%LA COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 14%LA COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 14%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
NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
CO
MD
NM
AR
DC
GA
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 29 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
14

Total granted

$1.9M
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+8%

Still filing today

45%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FV
    FELIX VENTURES FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $972k · revenue +3% · 100% of their budget
  • RB
    ROSE BOWL AQUATICS CENTER
    6× · 2017–2023 · $178k · revenue +38%
  • Williams College
    5× · 2017–2023 · $164k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • UD
    USA DIVING FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
  • THE ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMER
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +18%
  • UO
    UNIV OF WASHINTON MOCK TRIAL TEAM
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
5
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
6
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
7
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
8
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
9
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

—
10
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
11
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
12
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arthritis Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Felix Ventures Foundation. 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

22 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. 22 of the 48 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FELIX VENTURES FOUNDATION: $972,000 · EducationFELIX VENTURES FOUNDATIONWilliams College: $164,000 · EducationWilliams CollegeAMERICAN ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ARTS: $105,000 · EducationAMERICAN ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ARTSSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $90,000 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGE+4 more: $25,600 · EducationROSE BOWL AQUATICS CENTER: $178,000 · OtherROSE BOWL AQUATICS CENTERLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONICOPERA: $124,500 · OtherLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONICOPERAWILLIAM WORKMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $62,500 · OtherWILLIAM WORKMAN HIGH SCHOOLLA COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $50,000 · OtherLA COUNTY MUSEUM OF ARTLOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE: $24,770 · Other+23 more: $108,150 · Other+23 moreJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $18,000 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $14,250 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $4,000 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $2,500 · Health+3 more: $1,800 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $27,500 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY INC: $200 · PhilanthropyHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $120 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $75 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,356,600Other$547,920Health$46,550Human Services$27,500Philanthropy$200Arts & Culture$195

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 budgetFELIX VENTURES FOUNDATION: $972,000 over 8y, 100% of budgetROSE BOWL AQUATICS CENTER: $178,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWilliams College: $164,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ARTS: $105,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $14,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN PAINTERS WEST: $500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GLAUCOMA SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $75 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.

  • Who funds FELIX VENTURES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROSE BOWL AQUATICS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ARTS ↗
  • Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMER ↗
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Grossman Family Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 48 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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