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Gelfand Family Foundation Inc Mr Arthur Gelfand

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.

$16k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
14
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 90
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
4
Total assets, FY2023
$566k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Gelfand Family Foundation Inc Mr Arthur Gelfand funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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
FY202314$16k0%
FY202282$176k11%
FY202190$162k6%
FY202089$185k9%
FY201982$134k6%
FY201889$151k26%
FY201780$120kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$488kEducation$122kSocial Science$50kHealth$48kEnvironment$39kAnimals$39kHuman Services$29kFood & Nutrition$24kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
AR
NC
DC
AL
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 71 grantees
All grantees of Gelfand Family Foundation Inc Mr Arthur Gelfand by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Museum of Natural History$39,50070%
The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc$33,00060%
Synergy School$25,00060%
Paper Mill Playhouse$25,00060%
Wnet$21,00060%
New York Historical Society$20,50060%
Foundation for Morristown Medical Center$20,00020%
New Jersey Conservation Foundation$17,50060%
The Raptor Trust$16,50060%
The Frick Collection$12,75060%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$12,00060%
The Jewish Museum$11,30060%
New York Public Radio$10,00060%
The Greater Newark Holiday Fund$10,00051%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$9,00060%
FOR-SITE Foundation$9,00060%
Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc$8,00060%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$7,80040%
People for Animals Inc$7,50030%
Fresh Air Fund$7,00060%
New Jersey Highlands Coalition$6,50060%
Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc$6,50050%
Cornell University$6,50060%
City Year Inc$6,00060%
Museum of Arts and Design$6,00060%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$4,75060%
New Jersey Audubon Society$4,00050%
American Folk Art Museum$4,00060%
Franklin Township Food Bank$3,00030%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$3,00060%
Visiting Nurse Association of Somerset Hills Inc$3,0003n/a
Youth Speaks Inc$3,00050%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$3,00050%
Alonzo King Lines Ballet$3,00060%
San Francisco Parks Alliance$3,00030%
The Montclair Art Museum$2,67540%
826 Valencia$2,55040%
La Cocina$2,50030%
Museum of Modern Art$2,35060%
Dorot Inc$2,18060%
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art$2,10050%
Veterans Bedside Network$2,000547%
Americares Foundation Inc$2,00020%
Livingston High School Class of 198 Scholarship Fund Corporation$2,00046%
Liberty Science Center$1,96860%
The Morris Museum Inc$1,75050%
Intersection for the Arts$1,50030%
Enterprise for Youth$1,50050%
The Willowwood Foundation$1,50060%
Eagle Valley Humane Society a Nonprofit Corporation$1,45050%
California Academy of Sciences$1,41960%
Friends of Historic Bernardsville Inc$1,3502n/a
18 Reasons$1,00020%
Syracuse University$1,00010%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$1,00020%
Naturebridge$1,00020%
The 200 Club$1,0004n/a
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Friends of the Bernardsville Public Library Inc$1,0001n/a
Root Division$90010%
Community Hope Inc$90030%
The Seeing Eye Inc$90050%
The Exploratorium$89850%
The 200 Club of Somerset County$50020%
Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum$50040%
The Barnes Foundation$49020%
Children's Museum of Sonoma County$47530%
Circle Players Inc$4002n/a
The Historical Society of the Somerset Hills Inc$39031%
The Independence Fund Inc$25010%
Downtown Bernardsville Inc Main Street Bernardsville$1501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 59 recipients with no EIN on record ($509k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Gelfand Family Foundation Inc Mr Arthur Gelfand supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $39,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $33,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSynergy School: $25,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPaper Mill Playhouse: $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWnet: $21,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $20,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew Jersey Conservation Foundation: $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Raptor Trust: $16,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $12,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jewish Museum: $11,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Greater Newark Holiday Fund: $10,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOR-SITE Foundation: $9,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $7,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPeople for Animals Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFresh Air Fund: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew Jersey Highlands Coalition: $6,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBroadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCity Year Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Arts and Design: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $4,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew Jersey Audubon Society: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Folk Art Museum: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin Township Food Bank: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Speaks Inc: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAlonzo King Lines Ballet: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Parks Alliance: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Montclair Art Museum: $2,675 over 4y, 0.0% of budget826 Valencia: $2,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLa Cocina: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $2,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDorot Inc: $2,180 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $2,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans Bedside Network: $2,000 over 5y, 47% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLivingston High School Class of 198 Scholarship Fund Corporation: $2,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetLiberty Science Center: $1,968 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Morris Museum Inc: $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIntersection for the Arts: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEnterprise for Youth: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Willowwood Foundation: $1,500 over 6y, 0.4% 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 65.

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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.

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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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About Gelfand Family Foundation Inc Mr Arthur Gelfand

How much does Gelfand Family Foundation Inc Mr Arthur Gelfand give?
Gelfand Family Foundation Inc Mr Arthur Gelfand reported 14 grants totaling $15,829 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 90 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Gelfand Family Foundation Inc Mr Arthur Gelfand fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (52%), Education (13%), Social Science (5%).
Who are Gelfand Family Foundation Inc Mr Arthur Gelfand's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: American Museum of Natural History ($40k), The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc ($33k), Synergy School ($25k).
Does Gelfand Family Foundation Inc Mr Arthur Gelfand fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gelfand Family Foundation Inc Mr Arthur Gelfand 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 Gelfand Family Foundation Inc Mr Arthur Gelfand?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, The Kean Foundation Inc.
Where is Gelfand Family Foundation Inc Mr Arthur Gelfand based?
Gelfand Family Foundation Inc Mr Arthur Gelfand is based in NJ.

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 130 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 2023, released 2023. 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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