Does The Barbara & Harold Gottesman Fam Foundation C/O Edison Inv Advisors 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 The Barbara & Harold Gottesman Fam Foundation C/O Edison Inv Advisors?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, American Express Foundation, PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr.

Foundation Dossiers

New Jersey · Private foundation

The Barbara & Harold Gottesman Fam Foundation C/O Edison Inv Advisors

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.

$416k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 45
Grants FY2025: 38
Organizations funded FY2024: 37%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $3,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 26 to 39; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 14
Total assets, FY2025: $2.0M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 37% of the organizations The Barbara & Harold Gottesman Fam Foundation C/O Edison Inv Advisors funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthReligionOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	43	$405k	23%
FY2024	38	$433k	37%
FY2023	31	$393k	23%
FY2022	39	$385k	49%
FY2021	33	$365k	45%
FY2020	26	$330k	27%
FY2019	27	$236k	37%
FY2018	28	$1.0M	29%

92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.7MHealth$569kArts & Culture$526kHuman Services$257kAnimals$195kReligion$153kPhilanthropy$107kInternational$75kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy	$752,500	2	1%
Paper Mill Playhouse	$507,441	8	0%
University of Michigan	$350,000	8	30%
Sage Eldercare	$183,334	9	1%
Colgate University	$122,500	8	0%
Regents of the University of Michigan	$100,000	2	n/a
Congregation Beth Hatikvah Inc	$80,000	3	n/a
Summit Area Young Men's Christian Association a Nj Nonprofit Corporation	$40,000	4	0%
American Friends of Magen David Adom	$39,000	8	0%
Moving Traditions	$28,500	8	0%

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All grantees of The Barbara & Harold Gottesman Fam Foundation C/O Edison Inv Advisors by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy	$752,500	2	1%
Paper Mill Playhouse	$507,441	8	0%
University of Michigan	$350,000	8	30%
Sage Eldercare	$183,334	9	1%
Colgate University	$122,500	8	0%
Regents of the University of Michigan	$100,000	2	n/a
Congregation Beth Hatikvah Inc	$80,000	3	n/a
Summit Area Young Men's Christian Association a Nj Nonprofit Corporation	$40,000	4	0%
American Friends of Magen David Adom	$39,000	8	0%
Moving Traditions	$28,500	8	0%
Humane World for Animals International	$27,500	7	0%
Soi Dog Foundation USA	$20,000	3	0%
Wildlife Sos	$17,500	5	0%
Boys & Girls Club of Clifton Inc	$13,020	5	0%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Charlotte	$13,015	5	0%
Jewish Community Center of Middlesex County Inc	$13,015	5	0%
Eclc Foundation	$13,000	5	1%
New Jersey Seeds Inc	$11,000	2	0%
Red Leash Rescue Inc	$10,500	4	4%
The Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties Inc D/B/A Fulfill	$10,500	4	0%
Gottesman Rtw Academy	$10,000	1	n/a
Mercy for Animals Inc	$8,000	4	0%
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc	$8,000	4	0%
Ukrainian Jersey City	$8,000	2	5%
Homefront Inc	$7,512	3	1%
The Wild Animal Sanctuary	$7,500	3	0%
Animal Legal Defense Fund Inc	$7,000	3	0%
Earthjustice	$6,500	4	0%
Physicians Committee for Responsible Med	$6,200	2	0%
Ukraine House DC Foundation Inc	$5,000	1	0%
March of Dimes Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Humane World for Animals Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Temple Beth Sholom	$5,000	2	n/a
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum	$5,000	1	0%
Beacon Animal Rescue	$5,000	2	n/a
Team Summit Association Inc	$5,000	1	1%
International Fund for Animal Welfare Inc	$5,000	2	0%
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc	$4,500	2	0%
Compassion in World Farming Inc	$4,000	3	0%
Pony Power Therapies Inc	$3,000	2	0%
Jefferson Township Rescue Squad Inc	$3,000	1	3%
The Good People Fund Inc	$3,000	1	0%
Asia Wild	$3,000	2	0%
Horse Plus Humane Society	$2,700	2	0%
Roseland First Aid Squad	$2,510	1	3%
Waterside School Inc	$2,500	1	0%
United Way of North Carolina	$2,500	1	0%
African Wildlife Foundation Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Farm Sanctuary Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Sheriff's Meadow Foundation	$2,500	1	0%
Four Paws International Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Carnegie Mellon University	$2,322	2	0%
Mt Pleasant Animal Shelter Inc	$2,000	1	0%
The Humane League	$2,000	1	0%
The Good Food Institute Inc	$2,000	1	0%
Island Grown Initiative Ltd	$1,500	1	0%
American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign	$1,500	1	0%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated	$1,500	1	0%
Animal Welfare Institute	$1,500	1	0%
Nonhuman Rights Project Inc	$1,500	1	0%
Jewbelong Inc	$1,500	1	0%
Camp Ramah in the Poconos	$1,000	1	0%
Reeves - Reed Arboretum	$1,000	1	0%
Big Cat Rescue Corp	$1,000	1	0%
Pocono Mountains Music Festival	$1,000	1	0%
Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education Inc	$250	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

The Barbara & Harold Gottesman Fam Foundation C/O Edison Inv Advisors supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 61.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ18.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · American Express Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Ej Grassmann Trust · Investors Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable 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.

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About The Barbara & Harold Gottesman Fam Foundation C/O Edison Inv Advisors

How much does The Barbara & Harold Gottesman Fam Foundation C/O Edison Inv Advisors give?: The Barbara & Harold Gottesman Fam Foundation C/O Edison Inv Advisors reported 45 grants totaling $416,002 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Barbara & Harold Gottesman Fam Foundation C/O Edison Inv Advisors fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Health (15%), Arts & Culture (14%).
Who are The Barbara & Harold Gottesman Fam Foundation C/O Edison Inv Advisors's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy ($753k), Paper Mill Playhouse ($507k), University of Michigan ($350k).
Does The Barbara & Harold Gottesman Fam Foundation C/O Edison Inv Advisors fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Barbara & Harold Gottesman Fam Foundation C/O Edison Inv Advisors 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 The Barbara & Harold Gottesman Fam Foundation C/O Edison Inv Advisors?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, American Express Foundation, PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr.
Where is The Barbara & Harold Gottesman Fam Foundation C/O Edison Inv Advisors based?: The Barbara & Harold Gottesman Fam Foundation C/O Edison Inv Advisors is based in NJ.