· Private foundation
The Roxanne and Henry Brandt Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $137k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $410k
- $250k+1 grant · $700k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $700,000 |
| WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF | $125,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $120,000 |
| MODERN CLASSROOMS | $110,000 |
| SOLVE MECFS INITIATIVE | $55,000 |
| STAR INSTITUTE FOR SPD | $28,000 |
| TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES | $25,000 |
| HUDSON HIGHLANDS LAND TRUST | $20,000 |
| PRELUDE OPERA - OPERA FOR CHILDREN | $19,000 |
| CHRISTADORA | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY FDN EASTERN CT | $15,000 |
| MOBILIZATION FOR JUSTICE | $15,000 |
| CITY HARVEST | $7,500 |
| ASHOKAN CENTER | $7,500 |
| MACCURDY SALISBURY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% 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.
49 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $725k 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
WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP8× · 2017–2024 · $943k · revenue +81%- TMTHE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC4× · 2020–2024 · $375k · revenue ×12
- SMSOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC5× · 2017–2024 · $311k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- IFIRIS FUNDone grant, 2023 · $15k
- JFJazz Foundation of America Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +43%
- RRREFUGEE RESETTLEMENT COMMITTEE OF LYMEOLD LYMEone grant, 2023 · $12k
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.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
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…
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
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."
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Union Settlement Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 93 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 WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE STAR CENTER FOUNDATION DBA STAR INSTITUTE FOR SENSORY PROCESSING ↗
- Who funds TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Hudson Highlands Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds The Point Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds Christodora Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY MUSIC AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds The Peninsula College Fund ↗
- Who funds THE SUNSHINE LADY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GOTHAM EARLY MUSIC SCENE INC ↗
- Who funds Jazz Foundation of America Inc ↗
- Who funds Push for Empowered Pregnancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Mobilization for Justice Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHOKAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK WEST INC ↗
- Who funds BEAGLE FREEDOM PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY 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: The New York Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Kitchings Family Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Tides Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Roxanne and Henry Brandt 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.
- New London Homeless Hospitality Center — 47% of income from government
- Kairospdx — 19% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Roxanne and Henry Brandt Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Roxanne and Henry Brandt Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.