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Certilman Family Foundation Inc

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.

$130k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
0180% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$174kHealth$130kAnimals$44kHuman Services$40kMembership Benefit$17kPhilanthropy$13kArts & Culture$12kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $77k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$23,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$622k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$50,000
Misc under 5000$31,308
BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL$23,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$23,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISLAND HARVEST: $2k → 6%ISLAND HARVEST: $2k → 6%ISLAND HARVEST: $500 → 6%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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$433k · 15 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
15

Total granted

$433k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
-10%

Still filing today

53%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsMembership BenefitHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • BR
    Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $48k · revenue +7%
  • NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +18%
  • TA
    THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • LF
    LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $21k · revenue +25%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • SH
    Sag Harbor Movie Theatre
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
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
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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3
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
4
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
7
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
8
Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health
9
The Heart Foundation

The heart foundation (thf) was created to save lives from heart disease by increasing awareness, educating the public, and supporting innovative research at smidt heart institute at cedars-sinai medical center in los angeles, california.…

Philanthropy
10
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
11
Benaroya Research Institute At Virginia

To advance the science that will predict, prevent, reverse, and cure diseases of the immune system such as autoimmune disease, allergy, and asthma.

Health
12
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America; the most unlike its peers is T Off for Autism Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Misc under 5000: $119,375 · OtherMisc under 5000BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $50,662 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSMisc under 1000: $42,178 · OtherMisc under 1000LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $21,400 · OtherLAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTYRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $13,675 · Other+14 more: $56,321 · Other+14 moreHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $67,500 · HealthHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $48,000 · HealthBoca Raton Regional Hospita…THE JOHN THEISSEN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $4,418 · Health+3 more: $4,250 · HealthNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $44,347 · AnimalsNORTH SHO…THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $16,548 · Membership BenefitTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $13,000 · PhilanthropyISLAND HARVEST LTD: $4,400 · Human ServicesTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $3,926 · Arts & CultureBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $3,500 · International
Other$303,611Health$124,168Animals$44,347Membership Benefit$16,548Philanthropy$13,000Human Services$4,400Arts & Culture$3,926International$3,500

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 budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $67,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $48,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $44,347 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $21,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $16,548 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN THEISSEN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $4,418 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetISLAND HARVEST LTD: $4,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $4,170 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $3,926 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetT OFF FOR AUTISM INC: $750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 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 HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JOHN THEISSEN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND HARVEST LTD ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds T OFF FOR AUTISM INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Certilman Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Certilman Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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