· Private foundation
Edith & Michael Gelfand 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k45 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $10,000 |
| NEW SYNAGOGUE OF PALM BEACH | $5,400 |
| BEIS MIDRASH OF QUEENS | $5,000 |
| BOCA RATON KOLLEL | $5,000 |
| ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $3,600 |
| GARDENS JEWISH EXPERIENCE | $3,600 |
| CHAI LIFELINE | $3,600 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA | $3,600 |
| ALEF BET MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $3,600 |
| ENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH | $2,500 |
| TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY INC | $2,500 |
| HADASSAH | $2,360 |
| IMAGINATION PRODUCTIONS | $1,800 |
| TZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $1,800 |
| CLARION PROJECT | $1,800 |
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 (FY17–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- MUMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC4× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +68%
- HIHerizon Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +29%
- BMBeis Midrash of Queens7× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHABAD HOUSEPALM BEACH JEWISH CENTERone grant, 2023 · $30k
- PBPALM BEACH SYNAGOGUE ISRAEL SOLIDARITY MISSIONone grant, 2024 · $8k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANUone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.
To provide funding for medical and humanitarian projects throughout israel. the organization might make grants to other organizations providing such services, including, but not limited to, evp israel and israel emergency aid fund, israeli…
The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.
The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
The mission of the american friends of the u.s.-israel binational science foundation (afbsf) is to ensure the continuation of collaborative world-class scientific research by israeli and american scientists through the us israel binational…
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To further jewish education in israel
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed Israel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sanford F & Gabrielle T Kuvin Foundation. 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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 136 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds Herizon Inc ↗
- Who funds ENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH ↗
- Who funds Beis Midrash of Queens ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds RICHARD DAVID KANN MELANOMA TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds TORAH ACADEMY OF BOCA RATON INC ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds TrustBridge Inc ↗
- Who funds OHR HATZAFUN PRODUCTIONS D/B/A HIDDEN LIGHT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH GARDENS POLICE AND FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALEF BET MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds SHALVA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF BROWARD AND PALM BEACH 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · Mayberg Foundation Inc · The Irving I Moskowitz Foundation · Leslie & Samuel Kaplan Family Foundation · Brian and Dafna Berman Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore
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 Edith & Michael Gelfand Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Kessler Foundation Inc — 54% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Torah School of Greater Washington Inc — 2% of income from government
- TrustBridge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Torah Academy of Boca Raton 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.
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