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Gellman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$104k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$130kEducation$105kHousing & Shelter$92kArts & Culture$67kReligion$58kFood & Nutrition$46kInternational$42kPhilanthropy$36kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $58k
$6,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Maryland Police KN Fdn$11,500
National Parks Conservation Assoc$11,500
Madison Square Boys & Girls Club$11,500
Warriors 4 Wireless Scholarship$11,500
Planned Parenthood Fed of Amer$11,500
Beth Israel Center$6,000
Anera$6,000
The Trevor Project$5,750
Community Legal Svcs of PA$5,750
Combined Jewish Philanthropies$5,750
Palestine Children's Relief Foundation$5,750
Midwest Access Coalition$5,500
University of Wisconsin Fdn$5,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Tides Center Foundation: $7k → 10%Nationalities Service Center: $6k → 22%Lussier Community Education Center: $4k → 10%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

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IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
WY
OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
NC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$249k · 6 repeat orgs$542k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
52

Total granted

$249k
$456k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
0%

Still filing today

67%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthFood & NutritionCivil RightsAnimalsOther
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

  • AF
    ALI FORNEY CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $90k · revenue +158%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +39%
  • MP
    MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $36k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • SF
    SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue -14%
  • PA
    PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue -38%
  • FS
    FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +17%
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
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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2
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
3
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
4
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
7
Moral Compass Federation Inc

Moral compass federation facilitates collaboration among multiple veteran-led nonprofit organizations, individuals, and businesses who came together during the fall of kabul, afghanistan to evacuate and resettle afghan allies who were in…

Public Benefit
8
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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9
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
10
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Foundation

Operating under the name mjhs foundation, the mission of this philanthropic organization is to raise the funds necessary to support the charitable health care efforts of the organizations within the mjhs health system family. with roots…

Health
11
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
12
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America; the most unlike its peers is Upstage Arts Incorporated. 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

55 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. 55 of the 71 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/55
Grantees still filing
27/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BETH ISRAEL CENTER: $32,600 · OtherBETH ISRAEL CENTERJORDAN MICHAEL FILLER FOUNDATION: $16,000 · Other+49 more: $404,750 · Other+49 moreALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $89,600 · Housing & ShelterALI FORNEY C…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $47,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY …MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $35,500 · EducationMADISON PUB…PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $14,000 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERI…URBANA-CHAMPAIGN INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER: $13,500 · Arts & CultureURBANA-CH…CIRCLE CINEMA FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Arts & CultureCIRCLE CI…Wireless History Foundation: $12,500 · Arts & CultureWireless …Upstage Arts Incorporated: $5,500 · Arts & CultureUpstage A…WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN…NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL …JOUBERT SYNDROME AND RELATED DISORDERS FOUNDATION: $12,500 · PhilanthropyWILLIAM LOVELAND FOUNDATION: $12,500 · PhilanthropyMADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,100 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $5,750 · PhilanthropyGLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC: $27,500 · Recreation & SportsSOUTH FLORIDA BASEBALL SCHOOL INC: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $12,500 · HealthCUREPSP INC: $11,100 · HealthThe Montrose Center: $11,000 · HealthROCKFORD FAMILY PLANNING FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · Health
Other$453,350Housing & Shelter$89,600Education$83,000Arts & Culture$68,000Philanthropy$41,850Recreation & Sports$40,000Health$38,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $89,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $47,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $35,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC: $27,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetJORDAN MICHAEL FILLER FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetSENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBANA-CHAMPAIGN INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER: $13,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $13,500 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA BASEBALL SCHOOL INC: $12,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCLE CINEMA FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWireless History Foundation: $12,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTEXAS EQUUSEARCH MOUNTED SEARCH AND RECOVERY: $12,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAM LOVELAND FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 24% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMadison Square Boys & Girls Club: $11,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $11,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUREPSP INC: $11,100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $11,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHARD PROJECT INC: $6,750 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPLANT IT FORWARD: $6,750 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF SARASOTA INC: $6,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $6,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOld Friends Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $5,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $5,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKFORD FAMILY PLANNING FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 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.

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.

Shell USA Company Fou…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Shell USA Company FoundationTX11.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gellman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gellman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
13report 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
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.
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How do I get to Gellman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gellman 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 71 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.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home