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Gitter-Yelen Foundation at a glance

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Gitter-Yelen 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.

$97k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.0MReligion$2kInternational$2kHuman Services$1kHousing & Shelter$1kYouth Development$120Other$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
$1,700
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART$95,000
JAPANESE ART SOCIETY OF AMERICA$1,700
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$540
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $540 → 15%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $120 → 15%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $757 → 23%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.
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.

13%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$352k · 4 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
14

Total granted

$352k
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
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

  • NO
    NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART
    4× · 2018–2024 · $350k · revenue -70%
  • NO
    NEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    3× · 2021–2024 · $1k · revenue +25%
  • OM
    OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART
    2× · 2019–2022 · $600 · revenue -11%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2.3M · revenue +56%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM
    one grant, 2022 · $124k · revenue +4%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +19%
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
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
3
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
4
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
5
Arnot Art Museum

The arnot art museum is an exhibiting and collecting fine arts museum, accredited by the american association of museums. the museum exhibits its permanent collection of 17th-19th century european paintings and sculpture; 19th century…

Arts & Culture
6
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
7
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
8
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
9
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
10
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
11
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
12
Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies

The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) is dedicated to enhancing the United States' image abroad through American Art. Founded as a public-private, non-partisan partnership in 1986, FAPE works with the U.S. Department…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Folk Art Museum; the most unlike its peers is Japanese Art Society of America Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $2,305,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTONNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $349,500 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ARTAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $124,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $14,575 · Arts & CulturePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $160,000 · EducationHOUSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,800 · OtherTOURO SYNAGOGUE: $1,000 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL INC: $818 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL: $569 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $500 · Other+1 more: $120 · OtherNEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,417 · Human ServicesThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $1,000 · InternationalJASA CORPORATION: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$2,793,075Education$160,000Other$7,307Human Services$1,417International$1,000Community Improvement$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $2,305,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $349,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $160,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $124,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAPANESE ART SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $1,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,417 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLONGUE VUE HOUSE & GARDENS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJASA CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $275 over 2y, 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Gitter-Yelen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gitter-Yelen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Gitter-Yelen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gitter-Yelen 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 20 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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