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Gantcher Family Foundation

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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2022
21
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

91% of Gantcher Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Gantcher Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 16 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

15
’17
16
’18
10
’19
16
’20
14
’21
16
’22
9
’23
9
’24
11
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$4.7MHealth$1.8MEducation$536kReligion$389kHuman Services$346kCommunity Improvement$153kEmployment$83kInternational$67kOther$0
02FY2022 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k11 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $493k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
$9,600
Median grant
4
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$1,002,000
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$500,000
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE$200,000
PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE$128,000
FOOTSTEPS$65,000
MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION$50,000
PALM BEACH SYNAGOGUE$50,000
WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL$25,000
TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY INC$10,000
PALM BEACH POLICE & FIRE FOUNDATION$10,000
SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION$9,600
ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN$5,000
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$2,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND - USA$1,800
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 (FY17–23, $264k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%DELIVERYFUND: $50k → 14%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $28k → 11%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $7k → 11%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $200 → 11%METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $90k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $5k → 17%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

NH
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
TX
FL

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 27 repeat orgs$845k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2022, 13 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
32

Total granted

$2.9M
$556k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+47%

Still filing today

74%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • Trustees of Tufts College
    3× · 2017–2022 · $501k · revenue +50%
  • FI
    FOOTSTEPS INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $132k · revenue +12%
  • MF
    MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $119k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • MN
    METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY
    one grant, 2021 · $90k · revenue -10%
  • TH
    THE HOPE PROGRAM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +70%
  • D
    DeliverFund
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -58%

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
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
3
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
12
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is DeliverFund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Diverse Community Organizat…Jewish Philanthropic Founda…Arts and Cultural Organizat…Diverse Mission Organizatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr16%5%5–10yr21%10%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr10%31%35–55yr12%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr16%1%5–10yr21%2%10–20yr18%5%20–35yr10%82%35–55yr12%10%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/66
the rest of the field
15%
10,717/71,016

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

61 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. 61 of the 77 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
48/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $4,467,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUNDUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $175,000 · Philanthropy+5 more — $61,000 · PhilanthropyALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE — $1,502,000 · OtherALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MED…PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC — $288,600 · OtherPARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INCPALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INC — $100,000 · Other+29 more — $367,475 · Other+29 moreTrustees of Tufts College — $500,500 · Education+5 more — $30,200 · EducationFOOTSTEPS INC — $132,000 · Human ServicesMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC — $119,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY — $90,000 · Human ServicesDeliverFund — $50,000 · Human Services+2 more — $6,000 · Human ServicesCOUNSELING IN SCHOOLS INC — $100,000 · HealthCUREFA FOUNDATION INC — $49,550 · HealthLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $32,100 · HealthWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center — $25,000 · HealthMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $25,000 · HealthPROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC — $14,000 · Health+9 more — $17,750 · HealthTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC — $75,000 · EmploymentNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $17,400 · Arts & CultureRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION — $9,600 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $7,900 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER — $5,900 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical Society — $4,900 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION — $4,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $4,500 · Arts & CultureSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC — $4,400 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $250 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$4,703,000Other$2,258,075Education$530,700Human Services$397,000Health$263,400Employment$75,000Arts & Culture$69,350

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $4,467,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $500,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $175,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC — $132,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC — $119,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCOUNSELING IN SCHOOLS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY — $90,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDeliverFund — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGI Go Fund Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCUREFA FOUNDATION INC — $49,550 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $44,425 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCITY FUTURES INC — $35,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $32,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEXALT YOUTH — $28,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc — $27,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $17,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES — $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPalm Beach Civic Association Inc — $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION — $9,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $7,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER — $5,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNew York Historical Society — $4,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION — $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC — $4,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI CHILDREN'S CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $4,375 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER GOLF ASSOCIATION CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $1,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCity Squash Inc — $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Network for Good
Jewish Communal FundNY15.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good

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 Gantcher Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Center for Creative Education — 2% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
12report 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Gantcher Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gantcher Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 77 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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