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Lillian Gsell Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Religion$84kArts & Culture$65kHuman Services$56kInternational$53kEducation$30kFood & Nutrition$22kCivil Rights$21kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$747k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ruth & Norman Rales Jewish Family Services$7,500
Jewish Educational Loan Fund$5,000
The Jaffa Institute$5,000
Anti-Defamation League$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LEVIS JCC: $12k → 11%Adolph & Rose Levis Jewish Community Center: $10k → 11%Adolph & Rose Levis Jewish Community Center: $8k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$325k · 13 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$325k
$15k

Still filing today

62%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsEducationHealthOther

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

  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +36%
  • AR
    ADOLPH & ROSE LEVIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    3× · 2018–2023 · $30k · revenue +4%
  • RN
    RUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $26k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • RN
    RUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • SU
    SHADOWLIGHT USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PLAM BEACH CO
    one grant, 2021 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
2
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
Jewish Year Abroad

To provide an education based program in israel for college age jewish young adults that will instill students with a sense of purpose, commitment & pride about

International
5
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

7
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
8
Abraham Joshua Heschel School

The abraham joshua heschel school is an independent jewish day school which includes students from a wide range of jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs. (see schedule o for continuation)

Education
9
Shalom School

Shalom school's mission is to provide each child with an outstanding education in a nurturing environment that is academically excellent, inclusive, innovative, and inspired by jewish values and traditions.

10
Gainesville Jewish Student Foundation Inc

The gainesville jewish student foundation, inc. (known as schilit hillel at uf) mission: schilit hillel at uf enriches the lives of jewish students, inspiring them to make an enduring commitment to jewish life, learning, and israel

11
Sherit Isroel
12
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Next Generations of Holocaust Survivors Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ADOLPH & ROSE LEVIS JEWISH — $30,000 · OtherADOLPH & ROSE LEVIS JEWISHRUTH AND NORMAN RALES JEWISH — $29,500 · OtherRUTH AND NORMAN RALES JEWISHJEWISH FED OF SOUTH PALM BEACH — $29,500 · OtherJEWISH FED OF SOUTH PALM BEACHJEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC — $10,000 · OtherJEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INCCOLEL CHABAD — $10,000 · OtherCOLEL CHABADRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY — $7,500 · OtherRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILYHADASSAH WOMEN'S ZIONIST ORG — $7,000 · OtherHADASSAH WOMEN'S ZIONIST ORGSHADOWLIGHT USA INC — $5,000 · Other+1 more — $2,500 · OtherThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $50,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Ho…Next Generations of Holocaust Survivors Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureNext Generations of …THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC — $53,000 · InternationalTHE INSTITUTE FOR…ADOLPH & ROSE LEVIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesADOLPH & R…RUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $25,500 · HealthANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $20,500 · Civil RightsSAINT ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INC — $20,000 · Education
Other$131,000Arts & Culture$60,000International$53,000Human Services$30,000Health$25,500Civil Rights$20,500Education$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC — $53,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetADOLPH & ROSE LEVIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $25,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $20,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNext Generations of Holocaust Survivors Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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 THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Who funds ADOLPH & ROSE LEVIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC
  • Who funds RUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
  • Who funds SAINT ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INC
  • Who funds Next Generations of Holocaust Survivors Inc
  • Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Lillian Gsell Charitable Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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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    How do I get to Lillian Gsell Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Lillian Gsell Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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