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Idelson Family Foundation Trust

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.

$103k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 25
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Idelson Family Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsReligionHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$95k41%
FY20247$94k14%
FY202313$93k23%
FY202215$84k40%
FY202112$88k8%
FY202013$113k23%
FY201925$90k44%
FY201825$89k40%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$351kReligion$210kEducation$112kHealth$56kHousing & Shelter$25kHuman Services$24kCrime & Legal$12kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Canterbury School Inc$77,50040%
Chabad of Cape Coral Inc$41,8548n/a
Hope Hospice and Community Services Inc$41,51850%
Congregation Beth El$37,8547n/a
Chabad of Downtown Roswell Inc$28,5003n/a
Temple Judea$18,3009n/a
Temple Beth Shalom$15,5259n/a
Lee Building Industry Association Builders Care$10,00013%
Home Front Heroes Inc$10,00014%
Lee Building Industry Association Inc$7,50011%
Show all 34 grantees
All grantees of Idelson Family Foundation Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Canterbury School Inc$77,50040%
Chabad of Cape Coral Inc$41,8548n/a
Hope Hospice and Community Services Inc$41,51850%
Congregation Beth El$37,8547n/a
Chabad of Downtown Roswell Inc$28,5003n/a
Temple Judea$18,3009n/a
Temple Beth Shalom$15,5259n/a
Lee Building Industry Association Builders Care$10,00013%
Home Front Heroes Inc$10,00014%
Lee Building Industry Association Inc$7,50011%
Francis Parker School$7,10050%
Lee County Alliance for the Arts Inc$6,50050%
American Fundraising Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Chapters Health System Inc$5,0001n/a
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger$3,81830%
Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc$3,50010%
American Heart Association Inc$2,90030%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$2,81820%
Southwest Florida Community Prayer Breakfast Inc$2,50011%
Larc Inc$2,50010%
Temple Israel$2,0001n/a
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco$2,00010%
Chabad of Bonita Springs Inc$1,8001n/a
Chabad of the West Sixties Inc$1,8001n/a
Ort America Inc$1,80010%
Valerie's House Inc$1,50010%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$1,27220%
Blood Cancer United Inc$1,00010%
The Children's Home Society of Florida$1,00010%
Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida Inc$1,00010%
Cape Coral Soccer Association Inc$1,00020%
Temple Sinai Inc$7501n/a
Pace Center for Girlsinc$50010%
Chabad of Coronado$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($488k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Idelson Family Foundation Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCanterbury School Inc: $77,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHope Hospice and Community Services Inc: $41,518 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLee Building Industry Association Builders Care: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHome Front Heroes Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetLee Building Industry Association Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFrancis Parker School: $7,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLee County Alliance for the Arts Inc: $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Fundraising Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $3,818 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $2,818 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthwest Florida Community Prayer Breakfast Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLarc Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Community Center of San Francisco: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrt America Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetValerie's House Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $1,272 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Home Society of Florida: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southwest Florida Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCape Coral Soccer Association Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPace Center for Girlsinc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChabad of Coronado: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Southwest Florida Community Foundation IncFL21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Lee County Inc · The George and Mary Jo Sanders Foun Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Idelson Family Foundation Trust

How much does Idelson Family Foundation Trust give?
Idelson Family Foundation Trust reported 19 grants totaling $102,940 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Idelson Family Foundation Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (42%), Religion (25%), Education (13%).
Who are Idelson Family Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Canterbury School Inc ($78k), Chabad of Cape Coral Inc ($42k), Hope Hospice and Community Services Inc ($42k).
Does Idelson Family Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Idelson Family Foundation Trust 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 Idelson Family Foundation Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc, The United Way of Lee County Inc, The George and Mary Jo Sanders Foun Inc.
Where is Idelson Family Foundation Trust based?
Idelson Family Foundation Trust is based in FL.

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 70 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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