Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Gitlin 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.
- $104k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Gitlin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $104k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $74k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $84k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $87k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $51k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $17k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $17k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $16k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congregation Beth Or | $44,000 | 9 | n/a |
| ALS Hope Foundation | $33,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Jack M Barrack Hebrew Academy | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Philabundance | $23,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Raymond and Ruth Perelman Jewish Day School | $15,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Transplant House | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Opera Philadelphia | $8,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wills Eye Foundation Inc | $7,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Living Beyond Breast Cancer | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Orchestra Association | $6,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congregation Beth Or | $44,000 | 9 | n/a |
| ALS Hope Foundation | $33,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Jack M Barrack Hebrew Academy | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Philabundance | $23,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Raymond and Ruth Perelman Jewish Day School | $15,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Transplant House | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Opera Philadelphia | $8,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wills Eye Foundation Inc | $7,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Living Beyond Breast Cancer | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Orchestra Association | $6,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Judith Creed Horizons for Achieving Independence | $5,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Als United Mid-Atlantic | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Whyy Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| National Alliance to End Homelessness | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pennsylvania School for the Deaf | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Women's Center of Montgomery County | $4,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Temple Bethzion-Beth Israel | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Curtis Institute of Music | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Laurel House | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($249k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gitlin Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Horowitz Family Foundation · The Saramar Charitable Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Gitlin Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Gitlin Family Foundation
- How much does Gitlin Family Foundation give?
- Gitlin Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $104,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gitlin Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (47%), Health (19%), Education (9%).
- Who are Gitlin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Congregation Beth Or ($44k), ALS Hope Foundation ($33k), Jack M Barrack Hebrew Academy ($25k).
- Does Gitlin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gitlin 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 Gitlin Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, Horowitz Family Foundation.
- Where is Gitlin Family Foundation based?
- Gitlin Family Foundation is based in PA.
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