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Sondra & Charles Gilman Jr Foundation Inc

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5k
Granted FY2021
5
Grants FY2021
5
Organizations funded FY2021
20%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$150
Largest grant, FY2021
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 20
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$1.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 20% of the organizations Sondra & Charles Gilman Jr Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureInternationalRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyEnvironmentHealthOther
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
FY20215$5k20%
FY202015$210k27%
FY201920$82k50%
FY201814$171k43%
FY201718$433kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Arts & Culture$879kHealth$18kAnimals$6kEducation$3kHuman Services$2kCivil Rights$1kHousing & Shelter$1kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
PA
CA
AR
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($163k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sondra & Charles Gilman Jr Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $502,167 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Theatre Wing Inc: $125,690 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetAperture Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFrench Heritage Society Inc: $18,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of the City of New York: $5,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Center for Living Inc: $3,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSt Vincent's Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts Inc: $2,600 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPuppies Behind Bars Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElysium Between Two Continents Inc: $1,190 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFund for Park Avenue New York Inc: $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $770 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Thirteen Inc: $575 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmas Musical Theatre Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Concert Artists Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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 22.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY16.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Rosenstiel Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Ford Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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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How do I get to Sondra & Charles Gilman Jr Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Sondra & Charles Gilman Jr 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.

About Sondra & Charles Gilman Jr Foundation Inc

How much does Sondra & Charles Gilman Jr Foundation Inc give?
Sondra & Charles Gilman Jr Foundation Inc reported 5 grants totaling $5,470 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Sondra & Charles Gilman Jr Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (97%), Health (2%), Animals (1%).
Who are Sondra & Charles Gilman Jr Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Whitney Museum of American Art ($502k), American Theatre Wing Inc ($126k), Aperture Foundation Inc ($45k).
Does Sondra & Charles Gilman Jr Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sondra & Charles Gilman Jr 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 Sondra & Charles Gilman Jr Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Rosenstiel Foundation, The New York Community Trust.
Where is Sondra & Charles Gilman Jr Foundation Inc based?
Sondra & Charles Gilman Jr Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 40 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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