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Gottlieb Foundation at a glance

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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.

$68k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$92kEducation$85kHealth$75kHuman Services$69kInternational$49kCivil Rights$5kYouth Development$4kScience & Tech$4k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$9,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$429k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$20,000
JEWISH COLORADO$10,000
DENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$10,000
JOSEPH KUSHNER HEBREW SCHOOL$9,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO$5,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF CENTRAL NEW JERSEY$5,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$5,000
BREAKTHROUGH$3,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO: $14k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO: $10k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO: $5k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO: $5k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$231k · 7 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$231k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+12%

Still filing today

71%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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

  • CD
    CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +31%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $39k · revenue +39%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ
    5× · 2021–2025 · $31k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -8%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +12%
  • FC
    FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
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.

1
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Denver Academy of Torah

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…

Education
3
The Jewish Fund

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…

Philanthropy
4
Cu Boulder Hillel Foundation

To enrich the lives of jewish students so they may enrich the jewish people and the world

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5
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

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…

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6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
7
Jewish Federation of Detroit

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.

Philanthropy
8
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
9
Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas

The jewish federation of greater dallas coordinates and implements fundraising, social planning, leadership development and community relations for the jewish community locally & abroad.

Philanthropy
10
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

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…

Philanthropy
11
The Boulder Jewish Community Center

We are a home for community that builds relationships, embraces differences, and embodies what jewish life can be.

Human Services
12
Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is JEWISHColorado; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOSEPH KUSHNER HEBREW SCHOOL: $52,000 · OtherJOSEPH KUSHNER HEBREW SCHOOLJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ: $30,800 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRA…CONGREGATION HEBREW EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE: $20,000 · OtherCONGREGATION HEBREW EDUCATIONAL ALLIAN…UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH+2 more: $7,100 · Other+2 moreCHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S DIABETES FO…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $30,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $49,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONA…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…DENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationDENVER JEWISH…UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…JEWISHColorado: $40,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISHColor…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $38,600 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMI…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$129,900Health$75,000International$49,000Education$45,000Philanthropy$40,000Human Services$38,600Civil Rights$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $49,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISHColorado: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $38,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ: $30,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gottlieb Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gottlieb Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Gottlieb Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gottlieb 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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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
where grant money is based, and what stays home