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Gabelli 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.

$8.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
62
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$25MHealth$3.5MPhilanthropy$2.3MArts & Culture$1.6MHuman Services$638kReligion$577kEmployment$425kYouth Development$413kOther$0
02FY2025 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $355k
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+8 grants · $6.0M
$50,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$224M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOSTON COLLEGE$1,350,000
COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL$1,000,000
ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$750,000
BRUNSWICK SCHOOL$400,000
NYU LANGONE HEALTH$250,000
HOSP FOR SPECIAL SURGERY-F CAMMISA$250,000
STATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FDN$225,000
NY HOTEL TRADES COUNCIL HOTEL ASSN$200,000
SACRED HEART GREENWICH$200,000
GREENWICH HOSPITAL$150,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$100,000
NY PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL$100,000
VALTARESE FOUNDATION$100,000
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 (FY21–24, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $5k → 10%NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $5k → 10%NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $5k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 9%YWCA GREENWICH: $13k → 9%YWCA GREENWICH: $13k → 9%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
WY
PA
NJ
CT
RI
VA
SC
DC
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25M · 57 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
30

Total granted

$25M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+17%

Still filing today

51%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesReligionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $6.4M · revenue +26%
  • FU
    Fordham University
    5× · 2021–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +28%
  • ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • CC
    COLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue 0%
  • SO
    STATUE OF LIBERTY MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • HT
    HOTEL TRADES COUNCIL HOTEL ASSN SCH
    one grant, 2024 · $75k
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

—
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Yale University

To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.

Education
12
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fordham University; the most unlike its peers is Nevada Youth Empowerment Project. 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

51 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. 51 of the 110 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
32/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $7,100,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $6,425,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEFordham University: $4,415,255 · EducationFordham UniversityROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $2,100,000 · EducationROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITYBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $1,400,000 · EducationBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC+16 more: $1,773,000 · Education+16 moreJP MORGAN DONOR ADVISED FUND: $2,200,000 · OtherJP MORGAN DONOR ADVISED FUNDHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $900,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYFORDHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $610,000 · OtherFORDHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOLNY PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: $500,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF THE CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART INC: $365,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB: $355,000 · Other+66 more: $4,461,500 · Other+66 moreCOLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureSTATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $105,500 · Arts & CultureGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $700,000 · HealthBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $75,000 · HealthSt John's Health Foundation: $50,000 · Health+1 more: $25,000 · HealthTHE VALTARESE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · ReligionNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Crime & LegalAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 · Human ServicesYWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesNEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $15,000 · Human Services
Education$23,213,255Other$9,391,500Arts & Culture$1,205,500Health$850,000Religion$300,000Crime & Legal$100,000Human Services$90,000

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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $7,100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $6,425,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFordham University: $4,415,255 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $2,100,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $1,400,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $750,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $700,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetSTATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetIONA UNIVERSITY: $350,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VALTARESE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 5y, 92% of budgetFAMILY CENTERS INC: $220,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $175,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL JUDICIAL COLLEGE: $150,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $75,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFOUNDATION AT NJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSt John's Health Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTOWN: $29,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $27,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $26,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNevada Museum of Art: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER MUSEUM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHOE CASA FOUNDATION FKA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES: $25,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetYWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $23,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ITALIAN LANGUAGE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $19,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION INC: $15,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $15,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSILVER SHIELD ASSOCIATION INC: $11,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUNICO FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMHC ACADEMIC FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NATHANIEL WITHERELL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Fordham University ↗
  • Who funds ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds IONA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE VALTARESE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL JUDICIAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
  • Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION 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.

Jewish Communal FundNV Energy Charitable …Community Foundation …The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Francesco and Mar…Robert Z Hawkins Foun…The E L Cord Foundati…The Ayco Charitable F…Ibm International Fou…Mutual of America Fou…The Bretzlaff Foundat…Fairfield County's Co…
Jewish Communal FundNY25.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Francesco and Mary Giambelli Foundation Inc · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · The Bretzlaff Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc

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 Gabelli Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gabelli Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Family Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Gabelli Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Gabelli Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 110 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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