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Rickey & Robbi Gelb Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$112k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $28k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $112k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
99 INDIVIDUAL SCHOLARSHIPS REG SEC$112,000
LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$5,000
CHABAD OF THE VALLEY$5,000
DISCOVER CUBE LOS ANGELES$3,700
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY - NORTHRIDGE$3,655
EXPEDIENTE ROJO PROJECT$2,550
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$2,500
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY - NORTHRIDGE$2,054
CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE$1,000
DISCOVER CUBE LOS ANGELES$1,000
THE VALLEY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE$1,000
ONEGENERATION$500
SUTTER MIDDLE SCHOOL$300
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $250 → 14%VALLEY VILLAGE: $500 → 14%MAPS CHARITIES: $250 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$356k · 19 repeat orgs$412k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
85

Total granted

$356k
$295k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+29%

Still filing today

47%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEmploymentPhilanthropyCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TL
    THE LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +60%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    3× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +23%
  • O
    ONEGENERATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • 1G
    1000 GRANTS TO EACH OF 85 RECIPIENT
    one grant, 2020 · $85k
  • 1G
    1000 GRANTS TO EACH OF 65 RECIPIENT
    one grant, 2021 · $65k
  • 1G
    1000 GRANTS TO EACH OF 61 RECIPIENT
    one grant, 2019 · $61k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
League of California Community Foundations

The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…

Philanthropy
2
Active San Gabriel Valley

Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV) is a community-based environmental advocacy and public health non-profit organization. Our mission is to promote a more sustainable, equitable, and livable San Gabriel Valley.

Community Improvement
3
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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4
Los Angeles Retired Fire and Police Benevolent Association
Crime & Legal
5
Valle Del Sol Inc

Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.

Health
6
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
7
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
8
The City of Los Angeles Workforce Development Board

The Workforce Development Board promotes workforce development activitieswhich connect Los Angeles jobseekers and youth to training, workforce preparedness and employment opportunities. Facilitates placing youth into private,public &…

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9
California Donor Table

California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…

Civil Rights
10
South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health
11
League of Women Voters of Los Angeles

The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and…

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12
Southern California Streets Initiative

California Streets Initiative is a non-profit that practices solutions journalism at its five news websites listed above to educate inform and empower its readers.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Community Healthcare; the most unlike its peers is San Fernando Police Advisory Council Inc. 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

25 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. 25 of the 107 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

1000 GRANTS TO EACH OF 151 RECIPIEN: $260,000 · Other1000 GRANTS TO EACH OF 151 RECIPIEN99 INDIVIDUAL SCHOLARSHIPS REG SEC: $112,000 · Other99 INDIVIDUAL SCHOLARSHIPS REG SEC1000 GRANTS TO EACH OF 85 RECIPIENT: $85,000 · Other1000 GRANTS TO EACH OF 85 RECIPIENT1000 GRANTS TO EACH OF 65 RECIPIENT: $65,000 · Other1000 GRANTS TO EACH OF 65 RECIPIENT1000 GRANTS TO EACH OF 61 RECIPIENT: $61,000 · Other1000 GRANTS TO EACH OF 61 RECIPIENT+90 more: $148,516 · Other+90 moreCHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $8,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $7,500 · HealthVALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE: $4,500 · HealthNew Directions for Youth Inc: $10,000 · EmploymentTierra del Sol Foundation: $500 · EmploymentTHE VALLEY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE: $2,000 · Social ScienceThe Get Together Foundation: $1,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHRIDGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyDO SOMETHING INC: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentVALLEY VILLAGE: $500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $250 · Human ServicesMAPS Charities: $250 · Human Services
Other$731,516Health$20,000Employment$10,500Social Science$2,000Philanthropy$2,000Youth Development$1,000Human Services$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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 New Directions for Youth Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE ↗
  • Who funds ONEGENERATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE OF THE ↗
  • Who funds THE VALLEY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds FERNANDO AWARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds San Fernando Police Advisory Council Inc ↗
  • Who funds WALK OF HEARTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAPD DEVONSHIRE POLICE ACTIVITY LEAGUE SUPPORTERS ↗

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 …Weingart FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…The Ralph M Parsons F…Sempra FoundationLon V Smith FoundationUnihealth FoundationThe Ahmanson Foundati…The Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rickey & Robbi Gelb Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rickey & Robbi Gelb Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Rickey & Robbi Gelb Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Rickey & Robbi Gelb 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 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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