· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILA | $40,000 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $10,000 |
| BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH OR | $10,000 |
| PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| PHILA ORCHESTRA ANNUAL FUND | $5,000 |
| ALS HOPE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER | $5,000 |
| GIFT OF LIFE HOWIES HOUSE | $5,000 |
| ALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC | $2,500 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER OF MONTGOMERY CO | $2,000 |
| JCHAI | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SOUTHEASTERN | $1,000 |
| WHYY | $1,000 |
| THE PAPS CORP | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AHALS Hope Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +271%
- JMJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +28%
Philabundance7× · 2019–2025 · $23k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $2k
- PSPA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAFone grant, 2022 · $2k
- OCOpear Co of Philadelphiaone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
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.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
The mission of the wistar institute is to marshal the talents of outstanding scientists through a highly enabled culture of biomedical collaboration and innovation in order to solve some of the world's most challenging and important…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 54 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds ALS Hope Foundation ↗
- Who funds JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRANSPLANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds OPERA PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds ALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gitlin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gitlin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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