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Eliot J Garber Foundation Inc at a glance

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Eliot J Garber Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$45k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$208kHealth$121kAnimals$79kArts & Culture$16kRecreation & Sports$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$944k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND$30,000
ATLANTA HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
WEST BOCA PANTHERS TRAVEL BASEBALL$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TI ANIMALS: $6k → 17%EATING DISORDERS INFO NETWORK: $1k → 8%JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND: $30k → 13%CHILDRENS HEALTCARE OF ATLANTA: $3k → 14%CHABAD OF COBB: $18k → 8%JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND: $30k → 13%JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND: $30k → 14%ATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC: $5k → 13%JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND: $30k → 14%ATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC: $5k → 13%JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND: $30k → 14%ATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC: $4k → 13%JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND: $30k → 14%ATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC: $3k → 13%JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND: $29k → 14%ATLANTA HUMANE SOCIETY: $18k → 13%DR RICHARD SUGARMAN MEMORIAL ENDOWMENT: $5k → 14%ATLANTA HUMANE SOCIETY: $15k → 13%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE: $2k → 14%ATLANTA HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 13%ATLANTA HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 13%ATLANTA HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 13%ATLANTA HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 13%ATLANTA HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 13%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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$314k · 5 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against -33% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$314k
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
-33%

Still filing today

100%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsRecreation & SportsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • JE
    JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $208k · revenue +56%
  • AH
    Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue +40%
  • AJ
    ATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $16k · revenue +193%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -79%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $18k
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +80%
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
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
2
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

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3
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Inc

Driven by a vision to end cancer as we know it for everyone, the american cancer society cancer action network, inc. (acs can) advocates for evidence-based public policies to reduce the cancer burden by engaging advocates across the…

Health
4
Animal Care and Control of New York City Inc

Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.

Animals
5
American Association for Cancer Research Foundation

The american association for cancer research foundation accelerates progress in the conquest of cancer by providing financial support for scientific research, education and communication. the foundation funds programs deemed by the…

Health
6
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
7
Women's Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc

As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…

Animals
8
Acadia General Hospital Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
9
Association of Clinical Research Professionals

Acrp promotes excellence in clinical research. we support clinical research professionals through training and development, the exchange of ideas and expertise, and certification. we serve as the preferred source for quality tools,…

Health
10
Acs of Puerto Rico Inc

Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

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11
American Astronomical Society

The american astronomical society (aas), established in 1899, is the major organization of professional astronomers in north america. the basic objective of the aas is to promote the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of…

Science & Tech
12
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Cancer Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC: $208,454 · OtherJEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INCIndividual grant recipient: $18,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+3 more: $8,300 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY I…+1 more: $2,500 · HealthAtlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $73,000 · AnimalsAtlanta Humane Soci…THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $6,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIET…ATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC: $16,156 · Arts & CultureWEST BOCA YOUTH BASEBALL INC: $6,500 · Recreation & SportsWEST BOCA PANTHERS TRAVEL BASEBALL INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$234,754Health$102,500Animals$79,000Arts & Culture$16,156Recreation & Sports$11,500Philanthropy$10,000

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 budgetJEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC: $208,454 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $73,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC: $16,156 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST BOCA YOUTH BASEBALL INC: $6,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST BOCA PANTHERS TRAVEL BASEBALL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $2,500 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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