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Marsha Lilien Gladstein 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.

$734k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
36
Organizations funded FY2024
47%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,097
Largest grant, FY2025
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 36
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$13M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Marsha Lilien Gladstein Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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 arriving23$733k26%
FY202436$825k47%
FY202326$1.3M35%
FY202230$642k67%
FY20191$171k100%
FY201832$526kn/a
85% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$2.8MHealth$647kReligion$313kInternational$130kHuman Services$24kArts & Culture$22kPhilanthropy$20kCivil Rights$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
MD
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc$2,749,32051%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$66,60030%
Temple Sholom Inc$23,9054n/a
Harlem Children's Zone Inc$17,50030%
American Jewish Committee$13,75020%
The Canary Fund Inc$11,100313%
Commentary Inc$10,0001n/a
Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc$10,00010%
B'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization$6,80020%
Chabad Lubavitch of Greenwich Inc$4,9302n/a
Show all 29 grantees
All grantees of Marsha Lilien Gladstein Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc$2,749,32051%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$66,60030%
Temple Sholom Inc$23,9054n/a
Harlem Children's Zone Inc$17,50030%
American Jewish Committee$13,75020%
The Canary Fund Inc$11,100313%
Commentary Inc$10,0001n/a
Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc$10,00010%
B'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization$6,80020%
Chabad Lubavitch of Greenwich Inc$4,9302n/a
Israel Emergency Alliance$2,53020%
University of Miami$2,50050%
Algemeiner Inc$2,30020%
Greenwich Council Boy Scouts of America Incorporated$1,07630%
Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc$1,03510%
The Kennedy Collective Inc$1,00010%
Unlimited Support$1,0001n/a
Hebrew College$1,00010%
National Sleep Research Institute$5001n/a
Maranatha Farm$40010%
Fifth Avenue Synagogue$3001n/a
Town of Greenwich Registrar of Voters$2572n/a
Glenville School PTA$25410%
East Side House Inc$25010%
Alliance for Peacebuilding$20010%
Maccabi USA Inc$1851n/a
The Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties Inc D/B/A Fulfill$10010%
The Sudbury Foundation$10010%
American Heart Association Inc$7510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marsha Lilien Gladstein Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe University of Connecticut Foundation Inc: $2,749,320 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $66,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHarlem Children's Zone Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $13,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Canary Fund Inc: $11,100 over 3y, 13% of budgetCal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetB'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization: $6,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Emergency Alliance: $2,530 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAlgemeiner Inc: $2,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGreenwich Council Boy Scouts of America Incorporated: $1,076 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSunrise Day Camps Association Inc: $1,035 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kennedy Collective Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaranatha Farm: $400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGlenville School PTA: $254 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEast Side House Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for Peacebuilding: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties Inc D/B/A Fulfill: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Sudbury Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $75 over 1y, 0.0% 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 21.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY12.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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How do I get to Marsha Lilien Gladstein Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Marsha Lilien Gladstein Foundation 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.

About Marsha Lilien Gladstein Foundation

How much does Marsha Lilien Gladstein Foundation give?
Marsha Lilien Gladstein Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $734,370 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Marsha Lilien Gladstein Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Health (10%), Religion (5%).
Who are Marsha Lilien Gladstein Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc ($2.7M), Friends of the Israel Defense Forces ($67k), Temple Sholom Inc ($24k).
Does Marsha Lilien Gladstein Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marsha Lilien Gladstein 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 Marsha Lilien Gladstein Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Marsha Lilien Gladstein Foundation based?
Marsha Lilien Gladstein Foundation is based in CT.

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 87 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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