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Lawrence M Gelb Foundation Inc at a glance

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Lawrence M Gelb Foundation Inc

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.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$1.4MReligion$105kInternational$95kEnvironment$52kPublic Benefit$40kEducation$37kArts & Culture$35kHealth$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$849k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MADISON SQUARE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$30,000
MADISON SQUARE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$10,000
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 (FY21–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WOMEN'S VOICES FOR CHANGE: $15k → 17%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 13 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
13

Total granted

$1.7M
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
0%

Still filing today

69%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
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

  • MS
    Madison Square Boys & Girls Club
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +19%
  • TI
    THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +66%
  • NH
    NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS
    2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • WV
    WOMENS VOICES FOR CHANGE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -57% · 48% of their budget
  • US
    UNITED STATES DIPLOMACY CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • CO
    COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -29%
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.

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The Economic Club of New York

The economic club of new york is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonpolitical organization dedicated to the promotion of the study and discussion of social, economic and political questions. for more than a century, the club has served as the…

Social Science
2
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
3
The Trustees of the New York Society Library

The new york society library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.

—
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
6
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
7
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.

Arts & Culture
8
Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

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9
The American Assembly

A national non partisan public policy forum to illuminate issues of public policy.

—
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
Harvard Club of Ny Historical Foundation
Environment
12
The Skyscraper Museum

To devote energy and effort to the design history, theory, and practice of urban architecture, planning, and design, the development of cities and urban development, the relationship between built objects and systems and the lives of…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York City Police Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

19 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. 19 of the 26 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Madison Square Boys & Girls Club: $1,390,000 · Youth DevelopmentMadison Square Boys & Girls ClubCHURCH OF THE HEAVENLY REST: $104,000 · OtherCHURCH OF TH…NORTH HAVEN FOUNDATION: $32,000 · OtherNORTH HAVEN …UNITED STATES DIPLOMACY CENTER: $30,000 · OtherUNITED STATE…UNITED STATES DIPLOMACY CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+10 more: $26,200 · Other+10 moreTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS: $75,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $10,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMBASSADORS: $10,000 · InternationalNATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS: $50,000 · Arts & CultureDiplomacy Center Foundation: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $4,200 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Crime & LegalWOMENS VOICES FOR CHANGE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education
Youth Development$1,390,000Other$202,200International$95,000Arts & Culture$74,200Crime & Legal$30,000Human Services$15,000Education$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMadison Square Boys & Girls Club: $1,390,000 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDiplomacy Center Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWOMENS VOICES FOR CHANGE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMBASSADORS: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER REFERRAL CENTER INC: $3,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHEFFIELD LAND TRUST INC: $1,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMusic Mountain Incorporated: $1,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget122 EAST 66TH STREET FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: $1,000 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Music Mountain Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Lawrence M Gelb Foundation Inc 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 26 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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