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Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn

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.

$618k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Philanthropy$1.0MEducation$950kArts & Culture$503kCommunity Improvement$278kHealth$225kHuman Services$94kYouth Development$75kRecreation & Sports$58kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$250,000
UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE$150,000
LAKE TO RIVER FOUNDATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS INC$25,000
GOLDEN STRING INC$25,000
OAK HILL COLLABORATIVE INC$25,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON INC$15,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MAHONING$15,000
BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART$10,000
OPERA WESTERN RESERVE$10,000
COLEMAN HEALTH SERVICES$10,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO$10,000
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF YOUNGSTOWN & MAHONING$6,500
GOODNESS GROWS$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CLOTHED IN STRENGTH: $10k → 19%GOLDEN STRING INC: $25k → 19%YWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $1k → 19%POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT: $25k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
OH
PA
CA
UT
VA
NM
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 12 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
52

Total granted

$1.5M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
+7%

Still filing today

58%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • YS
    YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $500k · revenue +13%
  • YR
    YOUNGSTOWNWARREN REGIONAL CHAMBER
    4× · 2022–2025 · $105k · revenue +10%
  • OW
    OPERA Western Reserve Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND
    one grant, 2020 · $163k
  • TU
    THE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN
    one grant, 2021 · $125k
  • YC
    YOUNGSTOWN COMMITTEE ON ALCOHOLISM INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -101%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Youngstown Warren Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation

To operate for charitable purposes that exclusively benefit or carry out the charitable, educational and/or economic development purposes of the youngstown/warren regional chamber.

Community Improvement
2
Economic Action Group Incorporated

To solidify and accelerate downtown youngstown's resurgence as a center of employment, higher education, government services & culture, and to serve as a catalyst for overall economic development in the mahoning valley.

Community Improvement
3
Yountville Chamber of Commerce

Market the town of yountville and support local businesses with local events and operate visitor information center

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4
Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation

To advance, promote and support the charitable purposes of the youngstown area jewish community board and the youngstown area jewish federation

Religion
5
Youngstown Area Goodwill Industries Inc

Youngstown area goodwill industries actively strives to achieve full participation in society of people with disabilities and special needs by expanding opportunities, capabilities, and independence.

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6
Youngstown Columbiana Assn of Realt

To help organize and self-regulate those who deal with real estate in the mahoning and columbiana county areas of ohio.

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7
Youngstown Area Jewish Cemeteries Association

To provide funeral and cemetery services for synagogue cemeteries.

Membership Benefit
8
Wayne Economic Development Council Inc

To maximize the development and utilization of the human and economic resources of the wayne county georgraphical area in order to create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities and improve the welfare of people of the area.

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9
Inspiring Minds of Youngstown Inc

To engage inspire and empower youth to reach their full potential through education and exposure to life changing experiences.

Human Services
10
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber

To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.

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11
Ywca Dayton

YWCA Dayton is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

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12
Literary Cleveland

Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youngstown State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Helms Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%9%<5yr12%5%5–10yr21%21%10–20yr12%21%20–35yr16%11%35–55yr20%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%8%10–20yr12%16%20–35yr16%5%35–55yr20%69%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
11%
166/1,495

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.

04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 78 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
25/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY — $252,500 · OtherYOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITYTHE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND — $162,500 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN ANDTHE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN — $125,000 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWNYOUNGSTOWNWARREN REGIONAL CHAMBER — $105,000 · OtherYOUNGSTOWNWARREN REGIONAL CHAMBERIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFRIENDS OF FELLOWS RIVERSIDE GARDENS INC — $57,500 · OtherYNDC — $50,000 · OtherHEALTHY COMMUNITY PARNTERSHIP MAHONING — $50,000 · OtherSMARTS ALL IN ONE CAMPAIGN — $50,000 · OtherURSULINE HIGH SCHOOL — $47,500 · Other+37 more — $315,445 · Other+37 moreUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $612,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDECOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE MAHONING VALLEY — $55,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF…YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION — $28,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $6,000 · PhilanthropyYOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $500,000 · EducationYOUNGSTOWN STATE …EDUCATION CENTER — $25,000 · EducationHENRY H STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM ASSOC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY H STAMBAU…OPERA Western Reserve Inc — $60,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA Western R…THE YOUNGSTOWN PLAYHOUSE — $55,000 · Arts & CultureTHE YOUNGSTOWN …MAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $53,000 · Arts & CultureMAHONING VALLEY…OH WOW THE ROGER & GLORIA JONES CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR SCIENCE & TECH — $37,500 · Arts & CultureOH WOW THE ROGE…+4 more — $20,500 · Arts & CultureYOUNGSTOWN CITYSCAPE INC — $35,000 · Community ImprovementTHE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR — $35,000 · Community ImprovementVALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementLAKE TO RIVER FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementOak Hill Collaborative Inc — $25,000 · Community ImprovementSIMPLY SLAVIC — $5,000 · Community ImprovementYOUNGSTOWN COMMITTEE ON ALCOHOLISM INC — $100,000 · HealthHelms Foundation — $15,000 · HealthSIGHT FOR ALL UNITED INC — $10,000 · HealthCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC — $10,000 · HealthYELLOW BRICK PLACE — $5,000 · Health+1 more — $2,000 · HealthGOLDEN STRING INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesPOTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesCLOTHED IN STRENGTH — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human Services
Other$1,315,445Philanthropy$701,500Education$525,000Arts & Culture$476,000Community Improvement$150,000Health$142,000Human Services$111,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $612,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHENRY H STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM ASSOC — $250,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetYOUNGSTOWNWARREN REGIONAL CHAMBER — $105,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN COMMITTEE ON ALCOHOLISM INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGOLDEN STRING INC — $75,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetOPERA Western Reserve Inc — $60,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetFRIENDS OF FELLOWS RIVERSIDE GARDENS INC — $57,500 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetTHE YOUNGSTOWN PLAYHOUSE — $55,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE MAHONING VALLEY — $55,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $53,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetOH WOW THE ROGER & GLORIA JONES CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR SCIENCE & TECH — $37,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN CITYSCAPE INC — $35,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTHE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR — $35,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION — $28,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMyPath — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHelms Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSIGHT FOR ALL UNITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLOTHED IN STRENGTH — $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetOCCHA Inc — $6,345 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOLUMBIANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTRUMBULL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGOODNESS GROWS — $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetYELLOW BRICK PLACE — $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMAHONING VALLEY SOJOURN TO THE PAST — $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetWARREN SYMPHONY SOC INC-WARREN PHILHARMONIC ORCHES — $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLIT Youngstown — $3,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHEPHERD'S FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA MAHONING VALLEY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Youngstown Fdn GeneralPremier Bank Foundati…The Raymond John Wean…Walter E & Caroline H…E M Barr Tw Charitabl…The Wm M & a Cafaro F…Florence S Beecher FdnFrances Schermer Char…J Ford Crandall Depos…Youngstown Area Jewis…Senator Maurice & Flo…
Community Foundation of the Mahoning ValleyOH67.5× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Youngstown Fdn General · Premier Bank Foundation · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust · E M Barr Tw Charitable Trust · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Florence S Beecher Fdn · Frances Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46496008 · J Ford Crandall Depository · Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation · Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char

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 Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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