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Gd 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.

$49k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0164% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$394kReligion$35kHealth$29kPhilanthropy$17kScience & Tech$13kEmployment$10kHuman Services$7kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAMAZ SCHOOL$20,400
THE SHEFA SCHOOL$15,000
EDMOND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUE$6,000
YESHIVA SHAARE EZRA$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$720
Individual grant recipient$500
KEUK & LUMPHOMA SOCIETY$500
ISRAEL CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION$406
WIZO$200
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 (FY18–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIKVOT: $1k → 9%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $800 → 20%LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT: $360 → 17%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
MA
IN
NJ
CT
CA
MO
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$524k · 19 repeat orgs$175k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
67

Total granted

$524k
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+71%

Still filing today

26%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
InternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationReligionHealthOther
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

  • SS
    SHEFA SCHOOL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $233k · revenue +135%
  • RS
    RAMAZ SCHOOL
    7× · 2018–2025 · $175k
  • GT
    GATEWAY TO THE FUTURE
    2× · 2017–2020 · $30k

Funded once

  • RS
    RAMAZ SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $34k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $32k
  • TT
    TRANSCEND TRUST
    one grant, 2017 · $17k
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
University of Judaism Foundation
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5
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
6
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
7
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
8
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
9
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
10
The Shalem Foundation

To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.

Crime & Legal
11
American Friends of Yeshivat Haraayon Hayehudi

To produce jewish leaders capable of acting and reacting in a prescribed jewish manner to the problems and challenges facing the state of israel and the jewish people.

—
12
American Friends of Yeshiva High School of Kiryat Arba Inc

Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide educational and social improvement for the children of kiryat arba, israel.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Israel Childrens Cancer Foundation Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 92 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAMAZ SCHOOL: $174,704 · OtherRAMAZ SCHOOLRAMAZ SCHOOL: $33,850 · OtherRAMAZ SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $32,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGATEWAY TO THE FUTURE: $30,000 · OtherGATEWAY TO THE FUTUREIndividual grant recipient: $22,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTRANSCEND TRUST: $17,000 · Other+71 more: $108,606 · Other+71 moreSHEFA SCHOOL: $232,737 · EducationSHEFA SCHOOL+1 more: $660 · EducationGATEWAY TO THE FUTURE INC: $22,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $5,200 · Philanthropy+2 more: $680 · PhilanthropyPROPEL NETWORK INC: $10,000 · EmploymentAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $4,800 · InternationalBNAI ZION FOUNDATION INC: $800 · International+2 more: $154 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIKVOT INC CO ARMEL LESLIE: $1,000 · Human ServicesSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC: $800 · Human ServicesTHE LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT INC: $360 · Human ServicesTHE SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND INC: $1,800 · Food & Nutrition
Other$418,960Education$233,397Philanthropy$27,880Employment$10,000International$5,754Human Services$2,160Food & Nutrition$1,800

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 budgetSHEFA SCHOOL: $232,737 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGATEWAY TO THE FUTURE INC: $22,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetPROPEL NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $5,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $4,800 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIKVOT INC CO ARMEL LESLIE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBNAI ZION FOUNDATION INC: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL: $660 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $442 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF JHUBLA: $260 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEAL SEPHARDIC YOUTH CENTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEPH LEARNING CENTER: $180 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $132 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINNOVATION AFRICA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $54 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds SHEFA SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAY TO THE FUTURE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROPEL NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIKVOT INC CO ARMEL LESLIE ↗

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 FundNY25.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · David J Beyda Memorial Foundation Inc · The Mamiye Foundation Inc · Samuel & Mollie Jemal Foundation Co Jem Realty · Braka Philanthropic Foundation Attn Michele Needle · N'Ve Shalom Foundation Inc · I Chera & Sons Foundation Inc · The Ralph S Gindi Family Foundation · E R G Foundation · Isaac & Marjorie Gindi Foundation Inc · The Amin and Lillian Adjmi Foundation · Fjc

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 Gd Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gd 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Gd Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Gd 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 92 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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