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Gottlieb 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $20,000 |
| JEWISH COLORADO | $10,000 |
| DENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| JOSEPH KUSHNER HEBREW SCHOOL | $9,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF CENTRAL NEW JERSEY | $5,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH | $3,500 |
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, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% 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 +35% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- CDCHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +31%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC5× · 2021–2025 · $39k · revenue +39%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ5× · 2021–2025 · $31k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -8%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVERone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +12%
- FCFRIENDSHIP CIRCLEone grant, 2022 · $4k
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.
Denver academy of torah (the "school")provides education to students from kindergarten through high school. the school's mission is to nuture students to be torah-observant role models and future leaders through an intellectually rigorous…
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
To enrich the lives of jewish students so they may enrich the jewish people and the world
Hillel of Colorado seeks to engage, empower, and work with Jewish college students to create Jewish communities at University of Denver, Colorado State University, Auraria Campus, Colorado School of Mines and other front range…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The jewish federation of detroit is the cornerstone of our jewish community. we are committed to taking care of the needs of the jewish people and building a strong and vibrant jewish future, in detroit, in israel and around the world.
The jewish federation of greater dallas coordinates and implements fundraising, social planning, leadership development and community relations for the jewish community locally & abroad.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
We are a home for community that builds relationships, embraces differences, and embodies what jewish life can be.
To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is JEWISHColorado and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Gottlieb 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.
- Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj — 1% 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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