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.

Gorlin Family Foundation

Gorlin Family Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$60k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$965kReligion$434kEducation$346kHealth$272kCivil Rights$143kPhilanthropy$108kCommunity Improvement$105kFood & Nutrition$50kOther$0

02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $47k
$10k–50k9 grants · $134k
$50k–250k2 grants · $110k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS	$60,000
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	$10,000
YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL	$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL	$10,000
M2 (SQAURED) FOUNDATION FOR PEACE AND SOCIAL CHANGE	$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM	$10,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$7,500
70 FACES OF MEDIA	$5,000
OHR TORAH STONE	$5,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.8M · 29 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+405%

Still filing today

55%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ReligionInternationalPhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

SI
Sharsheret Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $247k · revenue +187%
BC
BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +167%
BA
BEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT UNIVERSITY OF MD
5× · 2017–2021 · $77k · revenue +7%

Funded once

Z
ZAKA
one grant, 2023 · $10k
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT HAREL
one grant, 2018 · $10k
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -33%

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.

Sherit Isroel

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Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

University of Judaism Foundation

—

Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation

Philanthropy

Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

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…

Education

Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida

—

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc

Youth Development

The Bnai Jacob Foundation

—

Jewish Life Foundation

—

Idf Memorial Foundation

Philanthropy

Dorot Foundation

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network; 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.

04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 41 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/24

Grantees still filing

18/24

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$949,775Other$766,500Education$307,200Health$247,000International$181,500Community Improvement$155,000Religion$125,000Public Benefit$5,000

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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY18.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

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 Gorlin Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gorlin Family 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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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