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Gottesman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BELZ INSTITUTIONS IN ISRAEL | $9,500 |
| WEST SIDE KOLLEL | $3,600 |
| KOLLEL ISRAEL V'SHIMSHON OF THE WES | $2,500 |
| BIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN | $2,500 |
| WEST SIDE HATZOLOH | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| MANHATTAN HS FOR GIRLS | $1,220 |
| CONG MINCHAS CHINUCH | $1,000 |
| CATSKILLS HATZOLAH | $1,000 |
| CONG BAIS MEDRASH LTORAH | $1,000 |
| YESHIVA MEKOR CHAIM | $1,000 |
| CHAIM ARUCHIM | $860 |
| YESHIVA OF TELSHE ALUMNI | $750 |
| YOUNG ISRAEL OF THE WEST SIDE | $720 |
| Adopt a Shadchan | $600 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 13 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- WSWest Side Hatzoloh3× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +12%
- SOSHARE OF NEW SQUARE INC DBA CHESED 2473× · 2021–2023 · $1k · revenue +125%
- TSTOMCHE SHABBOS OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC3× · 2021–2024 · $1k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- CBCONGREGATION BROOKWOOD INCone grant, 2024 · $5k
- KIKOLLEL ISRAEL V'SHIMSHON OF THE WEST SIDEone grant, 2024 · $4k
- BGBL GIRLS TOWN JERUSALEM INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -39%
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.
The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.
To provide medical support to families in need
Chabad of Bensonhurst Inc is an organization dedicated to furthering the religious, educational, and charitable needs of the Jewish Community.
To support the charitable activities of the organization ezrat achim in the city of beit shemesh, israel.
Provides finacial assistance to needy individuals and to religious, charitable organizations
To provide financial aid and assistance to the poor, sick & disabled people, and monetary support to needy families in time of need.
Medical Guidance
To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.
AFOMeomekHalevIncisformedforthereligiouscharitablepurposeofprovidingJewishministrytothespiritualandphysicalneedsofdisadvantagedJewishpersonsfamiliesandchildrenbetheylocatedintheNewYorkaroundtheUSinIsraelorelsewhere
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dorot 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 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 73 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 BIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN INC ↗
- Who funds West Side Hatzoloh ↗
- Who funds CATSKILLS HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds BL GIRLS TOWN JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds ADOPT A SHADCHAN CORP ↗
- Who funds SHARE OF NEW SQUARE INC DBA CHESED 247 ↗
- Who funds TOMCHE SHABBOS OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHAYIM ARUCHIM INC ↗
- Who funds EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MISASKIM CORP ↗
- Who funds CAMP HASC INC ↗
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: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Chestnut Foundation · The Ohr Hakotel Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Joseph and Martha Melohn Tzedaka Fund · Abc Charitable Foundation · House of Gross Foundation Inc · Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation · Terumah Foundation Inc · Md Friedman Family Foundation · Kitov Foundation
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 Gottesman 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.