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Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS INC$25,000
GOLDEN STRING INC$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
OAK HILL COLLABORATIVE INC$25,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MAHONING$15,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON INC$15,000
BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART$10,000
COLEMAN HEALTH SERVICES$10,000
OPERA WESTERN RESERVE$10,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO$10,000
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF YOUNGSTOWN & MAHONING$6,500
GOODNESS GROWS$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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Its 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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
PA
CA
UT
VA
NM
DC
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+12%

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
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

  • 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%
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
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.

—
11
Ywca Dayton

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

—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youngstown State University Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
22/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherSMARTS ALL IN ONE CAMPAIGN: $50,000 · OtherHEALTHY COMMUNITY PARNTERSHIP MAHONING: $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 & CultureTHE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR: $35,000 · Community ImprovementYOUNGSTOWN CITYSCAPE INC: $35,000 · Community ImprovementLAKE TO RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementVALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS 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 · HealthCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC: $10,000 · HealthSIGHT FOR ALL UNITED 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 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 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 budgetTHE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR: $35,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN CITYSCAPE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION: $28,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPOTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOak Hill Collaborative Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetMyPath: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHelms Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetTHE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 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 budgetYELLOW BRICK PLACE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGOODNESS GROWS: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% 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 budgetYWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati: $1,000 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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    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 78 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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