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Robert and Tamara Galpern Foundation Trust at a glance

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Robert and Tamara Galpern Foundation Trust

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$144k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Philanthropy$277kHealth$123kInternational$120kReligion$102kArts & Culture$49kCrime & Legal$5kFood & Nutrition$2kEducation$1kOther$0
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $62k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UJA Federation of New York$61,173
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$35,000
P E F ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$17,000
Polish American Foundation of Connecticut$10,000
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$9,000
Individual grant recipient$5,400
NYU MEDICAL Center$5,000
Sar Shalom Inc$1,000
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 (FY19–19, $600) 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%FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $600 → 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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$404k · 8 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
28

Total granted

$404k
$181k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+32%

Still filing today

38%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
InternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $267k · revenue +22%
  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    2× · 2019–2023 · $60k
  • PF
    POLISH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • CT
    Cong Toldos Avruhom Yitzchok
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • CT
    CONGREGATION TOLDOS AVRUHOM YITZCHOK
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
2
University of Judaism Foundation
—
3
Us Middle East Project Inc

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…

International
4
Yad Laniyim
Philanthropy
5
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
6
Sherit Isroel
—
7
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
8
Physicians for Palestine
Health
9
United Israel Appeal Inc

The principal function of uia is to administer and supervise the funds allocated for philanthropic purposes related to immigration and absorption of humanitarian migrants to israel and jewish identity programs in israel and the former…

International
10
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
11
American Friends of Tzir Hemed
Philanthropy
12
The Keren Rachaim Fund
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Meir Panim; the most unlike its peers is Eva and Louis Galpern Foundation. 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

21 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. 21 of the 39 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $267,081 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPI…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $58,288 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC+2 more: $10,119 · PhilanthropyMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $60,100 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER: $25,202 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCERCong Toldos Avruhom Yitzchok: $25,000 · OtherCong Toldos Avruhom YitzchokCONGREGATION TOLDOS AVRUHOM YITZCHOK: $25,000 · OtherCONGREGATION TOLDOS AVRUHOM YITZCHOKMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CEN: $22,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENIndividual grant recipient: $17,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $17,002 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNYU MEDICAL Center: $15,000 · OtherNYU MEDICAL CenterCONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $10,950 · OtherCONG KHAL TORATH CHAIM VIZNITZ OF BP: $10,000 · Other+11 more: $22,850 · Other+11 moreJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $50,000 · InternationalJEWISH NA…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICAN …+6 more: $5,700 · International+6 moreFOLKSBIENE YIDDISH THEATRE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePOLISH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureKEHILAT ZWEHIL INC: $3,600 · ReligionKINNERET DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $600 · Human Services
Philanthropy$335,488Other$251,004International$60,700Arts & Culture$49,000Religion$3,600Education$1,000Human Services$600

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 budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $267,081 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $58,288 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOLKSBIENE YIDDISH THEATRE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPOLISH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetENDANGERED LANGUAGE ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKEHILAT ZWEHIL INC: $3,600 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKINNERET DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATUROPATHS WITHOUT BORDERS: $600 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEVA AND LOUIS GALPERN FOUNDATION: $119 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENTLE GIANTS RESCUE AND ADOPTIONS INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Ojc FundJewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ojc FundNY11.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert and Tamara Galpern Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert and Tamara Galpern Foundation Trust. 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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 39 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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