How much does Benjamin & Rivka Gelbtuch Charitable Trust give?

Benjamin & Rivka Gelbtuch Charitable Trust reported 22 itemized grants totaling $8,519, out of $31,846 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 22 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.

What does Benjamin & Rivka Gelbtuch Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (5%), Health (1%), Education (0%).

Who are Benjamin & Rivka Gelbtuch Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2022 to FY2023: Orlando Center for Jewish Development ($1k), Friends of Yad Sarah Inc ($540), American Friends of Nishmas Yisroel Inc ($360).

Does Benjamin & Rivka Gelbtuch Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Benjamin & Rivka Gelbtuch Charitable Trust 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 Benjamin & Rivka Gelbtuch Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Ojc Fund, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.

Where is Benjamin & Rivka Gelbtuch Charitable Trust based?

Benjamin & Rivka Gelbtuch Charitable Trust is based in NY.

Benjamin & Rivka Gelbtuch Charitable Trust

Benjamin & Rivka Gelbtuch Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Benjamin & Rivka Gelbtuch Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$32k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$3k

Largest

01What it fundsRead

02Its granteesRead

03Its fieldRead

01What it funds

0181% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$20kHealth$2kEducation$460Food & Nutrition$180Membership Benefit$180International$150Philanthropy$111Human Services$100Other$0

02FY2023 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 22 grants below total $8,519, the rows itemized in this filing. The $31,846 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $23,327 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.

$200

Median grant

States reached

$539k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MTJ	$2,500
Orlando Center for Jewish Development	$1,000
Cong. Bais Ephraim Yitchok	$780
Institute Ohev Yisroel Kopitshnitz	$600
Bikur Cholim of Ezrat Achim	$500
Mt. Sinai Health System	$500
Young Israel of Riverdale	$360
Bais Medresh of Harborview	$280
NJOP	$250
Talmud Torah of Boyan	$250
Chevra Shas Tower 41	$200
Agudath Israel of America	$180
American Friends of Nishmas Yisroel	$180
Friends of Yad Sarah	$180
AMIT	$180

02Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$14k · 10 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$14k

$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-11%

+40%

Still filing today

30%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationReligionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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

YI
Young Israel of Riverdale
2× · 2022–2023 · $8k
IO
Institute Ohev Yisroel Kopitshnitz
2× · 2022–2023 · $2k
MS
Mt. Sinai Health System
2× · 2022–2023 · $1k

Funded once

G
Gateways
one grant, 2022 · $31k
CB
Cong. Bais Tefillah of Woodmere
one grant, 2022 · $1k
BM
Bais Medresh of Teaneck
one grant, 2022 · $360

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.

American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion

Sherit Isroel

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American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion

American Friends of Shovu Yisroel Inc

To provide grants to jewish religious organization in need.

Religion

American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.

Religion

American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah

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American Friends of Shviti Hashem Inc

To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.

Religion

American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education

American Friends of Menuchas Asher Csenger Inc

To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel

Religion

Noam Shabbos Inc

To provide financial and other assistance to needy persons and families in Israel

Religion

American Friends of Yisa Bracha Inc

To raise funds for Yisa Bracha a registered Israeli non-profit and realted organizations.

Human Services

American Friends of Birkat Haaretz Inc

The purpose of Birkat Haaretz is to promote the laws of shmitta accordance to Jewish law.

Religion

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agudath Israel of America; the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Outreach Program in. 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

10 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. 10 of the 34 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/10

Grantees still filing

5/10

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$51,506Health$795Education$720Religion$350Philanthropy$180Human Services$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY17.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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