Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Melvin & Estelle Gelman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $372k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $93,399
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Melvin & Estelle Gelman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $327k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $356k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $172k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $227k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $287k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $279k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $459k | 46% |
| FY2017 | 30 | $474k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adas Israel Hebrew Congregation | $231,652 | 8 | n/a |
| Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation | $210,655 | 2 | 1% |
| American Friends of Hebrew University Inc | $156,700 | 7 | 0% |
| The Lab School of Washington | $115,179 | 6 | 0% |
| Human Rights Campaign Inc | $111,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Georgetown Day School | $106,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Washington Hebrew Congregation | $67,540 | 5 | n/a |
| Morselife Foundation Inc | $51,700 | 8 | 0% |
| The Washington Ballet | $46,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Usagainstalzheimer's | $38,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Melvin & Estelle Gelman 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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Duber Family Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · The Dorothy G Bender Foundation Inc · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · American Gift Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Silver Family Foundation Inc · Bernard Family Foundation · The Julius and Dorothy Lazarus Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Melvin & Estelle Gelman Foundation with peer funders
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About Melvin & Estelle Gelman Foundation
- How much does Melvin & Estelle Gelman Foundation give?
- Melvin & Estelle Gelman Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $371,603 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Melvin & Estelle Gelman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (29%), Philanthropy (20%), Health (16%).
- Who are Melvin & Estelle Gelman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Adas Israel Hebrew Congregation ($232k), Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation ($211k), American Friends of Hebrew University Inc ($157k).
- Does Melvin & Estelle Gelman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Melvin & Estelle Gelman 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 Melvin & Estelle Gelman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, Duber Family Foundation, The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc.
- Where is Melvin & Estelle Gelman Foundation based?
- Melvin & Estelle Gelman Foundation is based in DC.
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