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Gelband 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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$350,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 23
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$17M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Gelband Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthArts & CultureEducationInternationalPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving19$1.0M47%
FY202323$574k43%
FY202217$823k41%
FY202119$686k32%
FY202015$671k27%
FY201916$448k31%
FY201820$422k75%
FY201710$330kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.9MEducation$1.4MReligion$669kPhilanthropy$415kInternational$177kHuman Services$134kPublic Benefit$50kRecreation & Sports$14kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 36 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Gelband Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Michigan: $650,000 over 5y, 70% of budgetThe Valerie Fund: $235,353 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $200,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Good People Fund Inc: $172,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetSammy Gelband Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetYud Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetThe Cyan Gray Hope Foundation: $61,000 over 6y, 63% of budgetEls for Autism Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProject Als Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndependent Living Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetThe Jewish Foundation for the Righteous Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $9,160 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSoft Bones Incthe US: $7,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGirl Rising: $5,519 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLife Camp Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTeen Cancer America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStar Legacy Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Healthcare Charity Inc: $2,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAchilles International Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMrcc Foundation Inc: $2,398 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGod's Love We Deliver Inc: $1,825 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetArmed Services Arts Partnership: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAreivim Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMillburn Short Hills Volunteer First Aid Squad Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetK9s for Warriors Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Youth Impact Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget101 East 69th Street Conservancy: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Kinder Ring: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA13.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Gelband Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gelband 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.

About Gelband Family Foundation

How much does Gelband Family Foundation give?
Gelband Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $1,040,014 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Gelband Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (32%), Education (23%), Religion (11%).
Who are Gelband Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Michigan ($650k), The Valerie Fund ($235k), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($200k).
Does Gelband Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gelband Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gelband Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Gelband Family Foundation based?
Gelband Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 67 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.1M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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