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Shelton Gorelick Family Foundation

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.

$200k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0177% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$402kPhilanthropy$187kArts & Culture$119kHealth$59kHuman Services$43kInternational$34kEducation$7kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $102k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
$3,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$61,200
CHABAD OF EASTERN ORANGE COUNTY$41,880
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE$20,000
UNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION$15,000
COLEL CHABAD$13,200
STRENGTH OF ISRAEL$11,800
AMERICAN FRIENDS KEREN ACHIM$8,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
NC MUSEUM OF ART$3,600
CHABAD OF KNOXVILLE$3,600
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$3,000
VALLEY CHABAD$2,500
BBYO$1,800
CHABAD HOUSE AT TUFTS$1,800
Individual grant recipient$1,800
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation: $15k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OLD CITY CHEDER: $24k → 11%CONGREGATION AHAVAS TORAH: $8k → 22%Tiferes Ramchai: $10k → 11%STRENGTH OF ISRAEL: $12k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS KEREN ACHIM: $8k → 14%CHABAD OF EASTERN ORANGE COUNTY: $42k → 14%Ezrat IsraelYisrael: $54k → 20%CHABAD OF BAKA: $61k → 12%PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFT: $75k → 16%CONGREGATION TORAT EMET: $10k → 15%UNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%Tiferes Ramchai: $7k → 11%strength of israel: $10k → 6%CHABAD OF EASTERN ORANGE COUNTY: $36k → 14%Ezrat IsraelYisrael: $49k → 20%United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation: $10k → 11%Tiferes Ramchal: $6k → 11%Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation: $7k → 14%Colel Chabad: $44k → 20%CHABAD OF CHARLOTTE: $30k → 10%United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation: $10k → 11%FRIENDS OF MALCHUS: $50k → 14%Ezrat IsraelYisrael: $32k → 20%OHR TORAH: $25k → 10%Torath Emeth Jerusalem: $24k → 20%Colel Chabad: $20k → 20%NC Museum of Art: $10k → 8%Colel Chabad: $20k → 20%Torath Emeth Jerusalem: $16k → 20%COLEL CHABAD: $13k → 20%Torath Emeth Jerusalem: $10k → 20%LEVINE JCC: $52k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $35k → 10%MATAT MORDECHAI: $50k → 20%LEVINE Jewish Community Center: $25k → 10%TEMPLE ISRAEL INC: $21k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $20k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $20k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $17k → 10%LEVINE JCC: $15k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $15k → 10%TEMPLE ISRAEL INC: $15k → 10%TEMPLE BETH EL: $10k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $10k → 10%LEVINE Jewish Community Center: $6k → 10%TEMPLE ISRAEL INC: $6k → 10%TEMPLE ISRAEL INC: $6k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 28 repeat orgs$211k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
24

Total granted

$1.0M
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

21%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k 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
ReligionPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2022–2025 · $136k
  • UJ
    United Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $117k · revenue +58%
  • CC
    COLEL CHABAD
    4× · 2022–2025 · $97k

Funded once

  • PS
    Penland School Of Craftgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +54%
  • CT
    CONGREGATION TORAT EMET
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • TB
    TEMPLE BETH EL
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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3
Sherit Isroel
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4
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
5
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
6
American Friends of Zvi Latzadik Dba Breslov Research Institute Jerusalem

To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.

International
7
Friends of Meor Israel

Education and religious activities and research

Education
8
The Shalem Foundation

To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.

Crime & Legal
9
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
10
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
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11
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
12
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Raleigh-Cary Jewish Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Outreach Judaism 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

18 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. 18 of the 58 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
6/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $135,960 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOLEL CHABAD: $97,084 · OtherCOLEL CHABADCHABAD OF EASTERN ORANGE COUNTY INC: $85,400 · OtherCHABAD OF EASTERN ORANGE COUNTY INCIndividual grant recipient: $67,084 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $61,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFRIENDS OF MALCHUS INC: $54,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF MALCHUS INCIndividual grant recipient: $50,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTEMPLE ISRAEL: $47,188 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $41,200 · OtherLEVINE Jewish Community Center: $37,510 · Other+36 more: $210,720 · Other+36 moreUnited Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc: $116,500 · PhilanthropyUnited Jewish Ch…MATAT MORDECHAI: $60,000 · PhilanthropyMATAT MORDECHAIRALEIGH-CARY JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyRALEIGH-CARY JEW…Penland School Of Craft: $75,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $250 · Arts & CultureUNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthSTRENGTH OF ISRAEL INC: $21,800 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KEREN ACHIM: $9,000 · ReligionCHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $6,980 · Religion+1 more: $1,220 · ReligionQueens University of Charlotte: $5,000 · EducationCentral Fund of Israel: $3,000 · International
Other$887,946Philanthropy$186,500Arts & Culture$75,250Health$50,000Religion$39,000Education$5,000International$3,000

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 budgetUnited Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc: $116,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPenland School Of Craft: $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMATAT MORDECHAI: $60,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetUNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSTRENGTH OF ISRAEL INC: $21,800 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRALEIGH-CARY JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KEREN ACHIM: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $6,980 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQueens University of Charlotte: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNER L HOREINU INC: $1,220 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUTREACH JUDAISM INC: $360 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY RADIO FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foundation of Shalom Park: $180 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.

  • Who funds United Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc ↗
  • Who funds Penland School Of Craft ↗
  • Who funds MATAT MORDECHAI ↗
  • Who funds UNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STRENGTH OF ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds RALEIGH-CARY JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KEREN ACHIM ↗
  • Who funds CHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗

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.

Foundation for the Ca…The Marc & Mattye Sil…The Leon Levine Found…Jewish Communal FundScott & Dana Gorelick…Barbara & Jerry Levin…The Ojc FundThe Ayco Charitable F…Duke Energy FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…
Foundation for the CarolinasNC15.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Scott & Dana Gorelick Family Foundation · Barbara & Jerry Levin Charitable Foundation · The Ojc Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Shelton Gorelick Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shelton Gorelick Family Foundation. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Shelton Gorelick Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Shelton Gorelick Family Foundation 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 58 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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