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Gilles and Debbie 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.

$227k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$226,941
Largest grant, FY2025
$226,941
Organizations funded a year
1 to 39
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$352k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Gilles and Debbie Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionOther
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
FY2025still arriving1$227k0%
FY20241$242k0%
FY20231$192k100%
FY202221$183k29%
FY202126$142k23%
FY202028$111k29%
FY201928$124k36%
FY201839$113kn/a
76% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$663kReligion$430kEducation$145kHuman Services$8kInternational$4kHealth$2kFood & Nutrition$54Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees
All grantees of Gilles and Debbie Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education and Affilliates$137,90050%
American Friends of Yeshiva Dmir Inc$62,00050%
American Friends of Mosdos Montreal Inc$14,75042%
Ateret Torah Center$6,3004n/a
Touro University$5,65050%
Advanced Mila Studies Inc$5,00032%
Central Fund of Israel$3,5001n/a
Childrens Bridge of Zichron Menachem Inc$2,00021%
The Afghan Jewish Foundation Inc$1,860314%
Chofetz Chaim of Lakewood$1,80020%
American Friends of Sar Yeshiva Nehar Shalom Inc$1,30010%
Chai Lifeline Inc$1,26850%
American Friends of Yeshiva of Kodshim$1,22030%
Congregation Bnei Shelomo V'Yaffa Inc$1,0002n/a
Jewish Learning Experience Inc$1,0001n/a
Avigdors Helping Hand Inc$75010%
Ladies Bikur Cholim Dsatmor$5653n/a
Hesed Yibanei Olam$5001n/a
Davis Memorial Fund Inc$50010%
Torah Learning Resources Ltd$40420%
Sephardic Congregation of Kew Garden Hills$4041n/a
Telshe Yeshiva-Chicago Rabbinical College Telshe-Chicago$3601n/a
Magen David$2601n/a
Friends of Yad Sarah Inc$25810%
Yeshiva Zichron Mayir$22010%
Peylim Lev Lachim$5410%
Refuah Yeshuah$541n/a
Tomchei Shabbos D'Lakewood Inc$5410%
Shor Yoshuv$361n/a

Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gilles and Debbie Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education and Affilliates: $137,900 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of Yeshiva Dmir Inc: $62,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Mosdos Montreal Inc: $14,750 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTouro University: $5,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAdvanced Mila Studies Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetChildrens Bridge of Zichron Menachem Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Afghan Jewish Foundation Inc: $1,860 over 3y, 14% of budgetChofetz Chaim of Lakewood: $1,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Sar Yeshiva Nehar Shalom Inc: $1,300 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChai Lifeline Inc: $1,268 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Yeshiva of Kodshim: $1,220 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAvigdors Helping Hand Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDavis Memorial Fund Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTorah Learning Resources Ltd: $404 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Yad Sarah Inc: $258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYeshiva Zichron Mayir: $220 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeylim Lev Lachim: $54 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTomchei Shabbos D'Lakewood Inc: $54 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 18.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY25.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · Maalot · Ahavas Avraham Foundation · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation · Cross River Community Foundation · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Gilles and Debbie Foundation

How much does Gilles and Debbie Foundation give?
Gilles and Debbie Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $226,941 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Gilles and Debbie Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (50%), Religion (32%), Education (11%).
Who are Gilles and Debbie Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education and Affilliates ($138k), American Friends of Yeshiva Dmir Inc ($62k), American Friends of Mosdos Montreal Inc ($15k).
Does Gilles and Debbie Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gilles and Debbie 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 Gilles and Debbie Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Ojc Fund, Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc.
Where is Gilles and Debbie Foundation based?
Gilles and Debbie 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 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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