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Gottstein 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k42 grants · $172k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $118k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Friends of United Hatzalah | $18,000 |
| One Family | $15,000 |
| American Friends of Magen David Ado | $15,000 |
| Innovation Africa | $10,000 |
| American Friends of Leket Israel | $10,000 |
| Mazon | $10,000 |
| Lantos Foundation | $10,000 |
| American Friends of Bat Melech | $10,000 |
| American Friends of Letet Humanitar | $10,000 |
| American Friends of Livnot U'Lehiba | $10,000 |
| Beans Cafe | $9,000 |
| Food Bank of Alaska | $8,000 |
| Children's Lunchbox | $8,000 |
| AWAIC | $7,500 |
| Covenant House | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +55% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 8 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC6× · 2017–2025 · $97k · revenue +169%
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +55%
- OFOne Family5× · 2021–2025 · $58k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $26k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISREALone grant, 2020 · $20k
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAHone grant, 2020 · $18k
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.
to promote, support and advocate for Alaska agriculture
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
Dedicated to strengthening the multi-disciplinary response to child abuse. We strive to ensure that professionals throughout Alaska are equipped to do the best job possible at holding offenders accountable and helping children and families…
Protects alaska's unique landscapes and ways of life by supporting conservation leaders, organizations, and initiatives.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The blood bank provides blood products and testing services to hospitals to ensure an adequate and safe supply of blood in routine and emergency situations. it provides educational services to potential donors and recipients of blood…
Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.
Preservation and promotion of civil rights and civil liberties.
Building partnerships, building trails. Working to build trails across the state and build capacity for trail organizations.
The aclu of alaska is a non-partisan organization dedicated to advancing the cause of civil liberties in alaska through public education and legal action.
The AFPC connects, advocates, and informs, to strengthen food systems for all Alaskans.
The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Alaska Foundation and the most unlike its peers is One Family. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 89 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds Beans Cafe Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds One Family ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAT MELECH INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds StandUp for Kids ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Alaska ↗
- Who funds THE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Social Services ↗
- Who funds Alaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds ANCHORAGE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds ALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA 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: Rasmuson Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · The Carr Foundation Inc · Frances & David Rose Foundation · Atwood Foundation Inc · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · Providence Health & Services - Washington · Alaska Children's Trust · Halcro Family Foundation · The Sholton Foundation · Barney and Rachel Gottstein Caritable Foundation · Swanson Family 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 Gottstein 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.
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