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Rickey & Robbi Gelb Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$140k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
24
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$112,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 39
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Rickey & Robbi Gelb Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropySocial ScienceYouth DevelopmentEmploymentOther
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
FY2024still arriving11$140k27%
FY202324$148k38%
FY202226$177k85%
FY20219$78k100%
FY20201$85k100%
FY20192$68k50%
FY201839$38k97%
FY201724$34kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$667kHealth$28kReligion$21kYouth Development$12kCommunity Improvement$9kCrime & Legal$8kHuman Services$5kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chabad of the Valley Inc$21,0004n/a
New Directions for Youth Inc$10,00011%
The Los Angeles Valley College Foundation$9,00041%
Child Development Institute$8,00030%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$7,50030%
Expediente Rojo Project$5,1002n/a
Valley Community Healthcare$4,50010%
Onegeneration$4,10040%
United Chambers of Commerce of The$3,00021%
The Valley Economic Alliance$2,00020%
Show all 28 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 79 recipients with no EIN on record ($682k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rickey & Robbi Gelb Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Directions for Youth Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Los Angeles Valley College Foundation: $9,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetChild Development Institute: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetValley Community Healthcare: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOnegeneration: $4,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Chambers of Commerce of The: $3,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Valley Economic Alliance: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFernando Award Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSan Fernando Police Advisory Council Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWalk of Hearts Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetThe Get Together Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDo Something Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Clarita Valley Food Pantry: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthridge Hospital Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetValley Village: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTierra del Sol Foundation: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAPS Charities: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Mission College Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles Regional Food Bank: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMothers Against Drunk Driving: $90 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreatescape Foundation: $50 over 1y, 0.8% 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 24.

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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.

California Community FoundationCA18.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Lon V Smith Foundation · Unihealth Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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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About Rickey & Robbi Gelb Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Rickey & Robbi Gelb Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Rickey & Robbi Gelb Charitable Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $140,259 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 39 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Rickey & Robbi Gelb Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (87%), Health (4%), Religion (3%).
Who are Rickey & Robbi Gelb Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Chabad of the Valley Inc ($21k), New Directions for Youth Inc ($10k), The Los Angeles Valley College Foundation ($9k).
Does Rickey & Robbi Gelb Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rickey & Robbi Gelb Charitable Foundation Inc 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 Rickey & Robbi Gelb Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Weingart Foundation, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.
Where is Rickey & Robbi Gelb Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Rickey & Robbi Gelb Charitable Foundation Inc is based in CA.

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 107 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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