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Saul and Pauline Gittleman Foundation Inc at a glance

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Saul and Pauline Gittleman Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$95k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$201kAnimals$168kFood & Nutrition$75kPhilanthropy$50kHuman Services$16kHousing & Shelter$11kPublic Benefit$3k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $82k
$11,250
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lucky Horse Rescue$14,400
Our Father's House Soup Kitchen$11,250
Live Like Tom Foundation$11,250
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$11,250
Coalition to End Homelessness$11,250
Passion for Paws$11,250
Pilots to the RescueSaving Furry Fr$11,250
Changing Tomorrow Animal Rescue$8,100
Semper K9 Assistance Dogs$2,561
Diabled American Veterans Chapter 1$2,561
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BROWARD CHILDREN'S CENTER SUPPORTING FOUNDATIONS: $14k → 13%CEREBRAL PALSY ADULT HOME INC: $41k → 13%CEREBRAL PALSY ADULT HOME INC: $32k → 13%CEREBRAL PALSY ADULT HOME INC: $16k → 13%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$431k · 6 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +102% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$431k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%
+12%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $98k · revenue +22%
  • CT
    CHANGING TOMORROW ANIMAL RESCUE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $82k · revenue +102% · 38% of their budget
  • LL
    LIVE LIKE TOM FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +252% · 59% of their budget

Funded once

  • FC
    FLORIDA CLEFT PALATE CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $14k
  • BC
    BROWARD CHILDRENS CENTER SUPPORTING FOUNDATION IN
    one grant, 2024 · $14k · revenue +12%
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
Foster2Forever

Foster Based Animal Rescue

Animals
2
Beth's Furry Friends Foundation
Animals
3
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
4
Brigid's Crossing Foundation
Animals
5
Furever Friends Rescue

Adoption services for orphaned pets

—
6
Foster and Forever Pet Rescue Inc
Animals
7
Their Lives Matter

Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home

Animals
8
Purple Paws 2nd Chance Rescue
Animals
9
Blue Lives Bully Rescue Inc

Dog rescue

—
10
Feeding Homeless Felines Foundation
Animals
11
Cleos Legacy Inc

Animal Rescue and prevention of cruelty to animals

Animals
12
K9 Connection Pet Re Homing and Adoption Inc
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Passion for Paws Inc; the most unlike its peers is Live Like Tom Foundation 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

9 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. 9 of the 15 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHANGING TOMORROW ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $82,036 · AnimalsCHANGING TOMORROW ANIMAL RESCU…RESCUE 22 FOUNDATION INC: $48,619 · AnimalsRESCUE 22 FOUNDATION INCPassion for Paws Inc: $11,250 · AnimalsPassion for Paws IncOUR FATHER'S SOUP KITCHEN: $63,936 · OtherOUR FATHER'S SOUP KITCHENLUCKY HORSE RESCUE INC: $14,400 · OtherLUCKY HORSE RESCUE INCFLORIDA CLEFT PALATE CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $13,936 · OtherFLORIDA CLEFT PALATE CRANIO…Pilots to the RescueSaving Furry Fr: $11,250 · OtherPilots to the RescueSaving …OUR FATHERS HOUSE SOUP KITCHEN INC: $11,250 · OtherOUR FATHERS HOUSE SOUP KITC…Coalition to End Homelessness: $11,250 · OtherCoalition to End Homelessne…+1 more: $2,561 · OtherCEREBRAL PALSY ADULT HOME INC: $89,000 · Human ServicesCEREBRAL PALSY ADULT H…BROWARD CHILDRENS CENTER SUPPORTING FOUNDATION IN: $13,936 · Human ServicesBROWARD CHILDRENS CENT…CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $97,693 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUND…LIVE LIKE TOM FOUNDATION INC: $50,186 · PhilanthropyLIVE LIKE …SEMPER K9 ASSISTANCE DOGS: $2,561 · Public Benefit
Animals$141,905Other$128,583Human Services$102,936Health$97,693Philanthropy$50,186Public Benefit$2,561

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $97,693 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCEREBRAL PALSY ADULT HOME INC: $89,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCHANGING TOMORROW ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $82,036 over 3y, 38% of budgetLIVE LIKE TOM FOUNDATION INC: $50,186 over 3y, 59% of budgetRESCUE 22 FOUNDATION INC: $48,619 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetBROWARD CHILDRENS CENTER SUPPORTING FOUNDATION IN: $13,936 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPassion for Paws Inc: $11,250 over 1y, 11% of budgetOUR FATHERS HOUSE SOUP KITCHEN INC: $11,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSEMPER K9 ASSISTANCE DOGS: $2,561 over 1y, 0.2% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Saul and Pauline Gittleman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Saul and Pauline Gittleman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2022
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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 · 0–5%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Saul and Pauline Gittleman 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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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