· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CHAI LIFELINE | $3,600 |
| ALEF BET MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $3,600 |
| GARDENS JEWISH EXPERIENCE | $3,600 |
| ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $3,600 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA | $3,600 |
| ENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH | $2,500 |
| TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY INC | $2,500 |
| HADASSAH | $2,360 |
| AH BIELSKI FOUNDATION INC | $1,800 |
| IMAGINATION PRODUCTIONS | $1,800 |
| CLARION PROJECT | $1,800 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
85 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. 85 of the 136 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 OHR HATZAFUN PRODUCTIONS D/B/A HIDDEN LIGHT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TrustBridge Inc ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edith & Michael Gelfand Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edith & Michael Gelfand Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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