Maryland · Private foundation
Gorlin 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.
- $290k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.8M
- 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 Gorlin Family 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.
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 | 18 | $220k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $216k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $209k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $180k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $181k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $194k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $196k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $204k | 10% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sharsheret Inc | $247,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Chicago Jewish Day School | $227,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Bikur Cholim of Greater Washington Inc | $80,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School Ltd (Formerly the Meorot Inst) | $80,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Hillel Center for Jewish Life at University of Md | $76,800 | 5 | 1% |
| American Friends of Leket Israel Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Friends of Ogen Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel | $65,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Central Fund of Israel | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sharsheret Inc | $247,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Chicago Jewish Day School | $227,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Bikur Cholim of Greater Washington Inc | $80,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School Ltd (Formerly the Meorot Inst) | $80,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Hillel Center for Jewish Life at University of Md | $76,800 | 5 | 1% |
| American Friends of Leket Israel Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Friends of Ogen Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel | $65,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Central Fund of Israel | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Yeshivat Maale Gilboa USA Inc | $40,000 | 7 | 12% |
| The Israel Project | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Melvin J Berman Hebrew Academy | $27,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Gather Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Kemp Mill Synagogue Inc | $22,200 | 3 | n/a |
| Impactisrael Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Zaka | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewbelong Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Operation Benjamin Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Jewish Funders Network | $4,275 | 4 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($628k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gorlin 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Gorlin Family Foundation
- How much does Gorlin Family Foundation give?
- Gorlin Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $290,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gorlin Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (39%), Religion (18%), Education (14%).
- Who are Gorlin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sharsheret Inc ($247k), Chicago Jewish Day School ($227k), Bikur Cholim of Greater Washington Inc ($80k).
- Does Gorlin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gorlin 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 Gorlin Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.
- Where is Gorlin Family Foundation based?
- Gorlin Family Foundation is based in MD.
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