· Private foundation
Gelles Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hebrew Senior Care | $10,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT Israel Foundation | $3,600 |
| Jewish Family Service | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| American Jewish Committee | $1,800 |
| New England Jewish Academy | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HHHEBREW HOME & HOSPITAL6× · 2018–2025 · $145k · revenue +47%
- SSSOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER HARTFORD INC2× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +43%
- OYON YOUR MARK INC4× · 2017–2022 · $4k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- COChabad of Greater Hartfoedone grant, 2020 · $35k
- OLOPERATION LIFESHIELD INCone grant, 2024 · $23k · revenue 0%
- SSSoloman Schechter Day Schoolone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The jewish high school of connecticut is dedicated to educate jewish youth for whom jewish values and traditions shape and guide their lives and for whom learning and responsible actions are foundational for achievement.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
Religious School
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…
Operates a high school with 60 students and a junior rabbinical college with 60 students.
Jerusalem University College creates opportunities for students to deepen their knowledge of God and His Word through immersive study of the ancient and modern contexts of Israel and the surrounding regions, equipping them for academia,…
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
A religious school providing teaching facilities of jewish faith, history, literature, jewish life and ideals.
To operate a school in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith.
To promote, encourage, aid and advance higher and secondary education, research and training in all branches of knowledge. as the standard bearer of excellence, the university strives to ensure and foster outstanding achievements in all…
Religious and secular education provided for preschool through high school
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford and the most unlike its peers is Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 25 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HEBREW HOME & HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds OPERATION LIFESHIELD INC ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY IN ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds ON YOUR MARK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds The Bess and Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER HEBREW HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Center for Entrepreneurial Jewish Philanthropy Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Louis & Martha Silver Foundation Inc · Driesman Krichavsky Charitable Foundation Trust · Greenberg Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford · The Auerbach Schiro Foundation · Clsj Foundation Inc · Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Gelles 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.
- Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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