New York · Nonprofit
JOSEPH BRODSKY MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP FUND
JOSEPH BRODSKY MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP FUND (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,000 to it, the largest being THE GUZIK FOUNDATION ($85,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $103k
- Net assets
- $356k
What Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund does
Mission
Fund was founded in order to enabale russian writers, composers, architects and visual artists to travel to rome for periods of study and work.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Through 2025, fellowships were distributed to fifteen artists, tweenty three writers and six scholars
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $264k to $396k (+50%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of JOSEPH BRODSKY MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP FUND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $20k.
From the IRS filings of JOSEPH BRODSKY MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
JOSEPH BRODSKY MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
JOSEPH BRODSKY MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP FUND draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
JOSEPH BRODSKY MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,793 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like JOSEPH BRODSKY MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP FUND
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOSEPH BRODSKY MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP FUND: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JOSEPH BRODSKY MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP FUND?
- JOSEPH BRODSKY MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP FUND (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,000 to it, the largest being THE GUZIK FOUNDATION ($85,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOSEPH BRODSKY MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP FUND have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $103,000 in grants to JOSEPH BRODSKY MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOSEPH BRODSKY MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP FUND?
- THE GUZIK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOSEPH BRODSKY MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing