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Gorlin 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $139k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $148k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS | $97,500 |
| SHARSHERET | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL | $25,000 |
| CHICAGO JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $23,600 |
| GESHER FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| OHR TORAH STONE | $10,000 |
| YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $5,000 |
| 70 FACES OF MEDIA | $5,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
29 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SISharsheret Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $197k · revenue +187%
- BABEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT UNIVERSITY OF MD5× · 2017–2021 · $77k · revenue +7%
- BCBIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC8× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +167%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT HARELone grant, 2018 · $10k
- ZZAKAone grant, 2023 · $10k
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -33%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network and the most unlike its peers is Operation Benjamin Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
- Who funds BEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT UNIVERSITY OF MD ↗
- Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL LTD (FORMERLY THE MEOROT INST) ↗
- Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT MAALE GILBOA USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ISRAEL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds MELVIN J BERMAN HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GATHER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BENJAMIN INC ↗
- Who funds JEWBELONG INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Melvyn and Barbara Ciment Family Foundation Inc · The Gary & Carol Berman Family Foundation Inc · The Colburn Family Foundation · Aviv Foundation Inc · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Gorlin Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
- Melvin J Berman Hebrew Academy — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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