· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $196k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $144k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $93,399 |
| ADAS Israel Congregation | $50,176 |
| University of Pennsylvania | $45,000 |
| Human Rights Campaign | $26,000 |
| Georgetown Day School | $20,000 |
| American Friends of the Hebrew University | $15,000 |
| Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation | $13,000 |
| Washington Hebrew Congregation | $12,528 |
| Children's Hospital Found | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Morselife Foundation | $10,000 |
| Jewish Federation of Group Homes | $10,000 |
| Riverdale | $10,000 |
| George Washington University | $10,000 |
| Foxhall Foundation | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ADALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $211k · revenue +227%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $157k · revenue +40%
- TLTHE LAB SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON6× · 2017–2022 · $115k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- LALillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museumgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +86%
- NHNATIONAL HEADACHE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +7%
- MTMARTHA'S TABLE INCone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue -38%
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.
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
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.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 73 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAB SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON BALLET ↗
- Who funds USAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HEADACHE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Foxhall Foundation ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Melvin & Estelle Gelman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melvin & Estelle Gelman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Imagination Stage Inc: 13% of income from government
- Beebe Medical Foundation: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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