New Jersey · Private foundation
Herman & Yetta Geller 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.
- $51k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $14,841
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $338k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Herman & Yetta Geller Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $39k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $44k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $42k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $43k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $23k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $49k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $27k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $25k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Englewood Hospital and Medical Center Foundation Inc | $65,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Family Connections Inc | $61,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Barnert Memorial Temple | $59,125 | 5 | n/a |
| The Valley Hospital Foundation Inc | $22,600 | 9 | 0% |
| Penn Hillel Foundation | $20,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Dwight-Englewood School | $9,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Play for Pink Inc | $3,250 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Ramapo-Bergen Animal Refuge Inc | $550 | 4 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $500 | 5 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Englewood Hospital and Medical Center Foundation Inc | $65,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Family Connections Inc | $61,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Barnert Memorial Temple | $59,125 | 5 | n/a |
| The Valley Hospital Foundation Inc | $22,600 | 9 | 0% |
| Penn Hillel Foundation | $20,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Dwight-Englewood School | $9,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Play for Pink Inc | $3,250 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Ramapo-Bergen Animal Refuge Inc | $550 | 4 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $500 | 5 | 0% |
| Ho-Ho-Kus Volunteer Fire Department | $275 | 2 | n/a |
| Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Beach Haven Volunteer Fire Co | $150 | 2 | 0% |
| Beach Haven First Aid Squad | $150 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($70k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Herman & Yetta Geller Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Herman & Yetta Geller Foundation
- How much does Herman & Yetta Geller Foundation give?
- Herman & Yetta Geller Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $50,991 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Herman & Yetta Geller Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (38%), Health (24%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are Herman & Yetta Geller Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Englewood Hospital and Medical Center Foundation Inc ($65k), Family Connections Inc ($62k), Barnert Memorial Temple ($59k).
- Does Herman & Yetta Geller Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Herman & Yetta Geller 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 Herman & Yetta Geller Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Herman & Yetta Geller Foundation based?
- Herman & Yetta Geller Foundation is based in NJ.
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