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The Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$363k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$100k
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 2023.

Education$35MHuman Services$4.8MPhilanthropy$1.9MHealth$1.5MFood & Nutrition$700kYouth Development$635kReligion$500kArts & Culture$400kOther$0
02FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $350k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST PHILIP'S SCHOOL$100,000
SAINT CECILIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$50,000
SAINT STEPHEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$50,000
SAINT GABRIEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$50,000
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$50,000
SAINT CHARLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$50,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO$13,067
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 (FY20–23, $3.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%IRISH IMMIGRATION PASTORAL CENTER: $400k → 10%Irish Immigration Pastoral Center: $45k → 10%Irish Immigration Pastoral Center: $45k → 10%City Youth Now: $15k → 10%Palcare: $50k → 7%Ritter Center: $13k → 8%City Youth Now: $10k → 10%Ritter Center: $10k → 8%Partners and Advocates for Remarkable Children and Adults: $15k → 7%Partners and Advocates for Remarkable Children and Adults: $15k → 7%MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER: $900k → 10%Mission Hospice and Home Care: $25k → 7%Mercy Retirement and Care Center: $250k → 10%Mission Hospice and Home Care: $10k → 7%Ombudsman Services of San Mateo County Inc: $40k → 10%ARC of San Francisco: $25k → 10%Holy Family Day Home: $10k → 10%Holy Family Day Home: $10k → 10%StarVista: $15k → 7%StarVista: $10k → 7%Child Care Coordinating Council of San Mateo County: $10k → 7%Pomeroy Recreation & Rehabilitation Center: $15k → 10%Pomeroy Recreation & Rehabilitation Center: $15k → 10%Kainos Home and Training Center for the Developmentally Disabled: $30k → 7%Kainos Home and Training Center for the Developmentally Disabled: $10k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO: $1.8M → 10%Catholic Charities CYO: $20k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO: $13k → 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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$42M · 89 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

89 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 82 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
56

Total granted

$42M
$4.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+40%

Still filing today

47%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterReligionOther
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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +35%
  • MR
    MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER
    2× · 2020–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +26%
  • TB
    THE BASIC FUND
    3× · 2020–2022 · $800k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • SH
    SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY - SF
    one grant, 2022 · $3.0M
  • OL
    OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP ELEMENTARY SCH
    one grant, 2022 · $275k
  • SF
    ST FRANCIS CENTER OF REDWOOD CITY
    one grant, 2022 · $113k · revenue -37%
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
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
2
Serra Residential Center Inc

To provide dignity, respect and choice for persons with developmental disabilities

—
3
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
4
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
5
Bay Area Community Services Housing Corp

Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.

Housing & Shelter
6
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
7
San Francisco Ladies Protection and Relief Society
Health
8
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
9
Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Health
10
Hip Housing Development Corporation

To alleviate and improve the housing condition of the needy, physically or mentally handicapped, elderly persons and others whose housing needs are not being adequately met in San Mateo County, CA.

Housing & Shelter
11
San Francisco Senior and Disability Action Dba Senior & Disability Action

Senior & Disability Action educates and mobilizes seniors and people with disabilities to secure individual rights and social justice. We work together to create a city and world in which seniors and people with disabilities can live well…

Unclassified
12
Silicon Valley Independent Living Center

SVILC builds disability identity, culture, pride, creating opportunities for personal and community transformation, and partnering with others to ensure that civil and human rights are protected.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Cyo of the Archdiocese of San Francisco; the most unlike its peers is Healthy Cities Tutoring 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

68 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. 68 of the 145 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/68
Grantees still filing
48/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERCY HIGH SCHOOL BURLINGAME: $4,933,500 · OtherMERCY HIGH SCHOOL BURLINGAMEJunipero Serra High School: $3,000,000 · OtherJunipero Serra High SchoolSACRED HEART CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY - SF: $3,000,000 · OtherSACRED HEART CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY - SFARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL: $2,500,000 · OtherARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOLIGNATIAN CORPORATION SAINT IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL: $1,925,000 · OtherIGNATIAN CORPORATION SAINT IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOLST ANTHONY FOUNDATION: $1,910,000 · OtherST ANTHONY FOUNDATIONIMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY: $1,900,000 · OtherIMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMYSAINT FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL: $1,125,000 · OtherSaint Thomas More Elementary School: $1,085,000 · Other+89 more: $8,562,943 · Other+89 moreSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $4,750,000 · EducationSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF …University of San Francisco: $4,350,000 · EducationUniversity of San Franci…THE BASIC FUND: $800,000 · EducationTHE BASIC FUND+6 more: $241,000 · EducationCATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1,833,067 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC …MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER: $1,150,000 · Human ServicesMERCY RET…IRISH IMMIGRATION PASTORAL CENTER: $490,000 · Human ServicesIRISH IMM…+12 more: $352,500 · Human Services+12 moreSEQUOIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $512,500 · HealthOrder of Malta Clinic of Northern California: $475,000 · HealthMILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $85,000 · HealthVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE - SAN FRANCISCO: $55,000 · HealthST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Health+4 more: $99,975 · HealthSONOMA OVERNIGHT SUPPORT INC: $610,000 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $67,000 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterSALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $280,000 · Youth DevelopmentSan Mateo Police Activities League Inc: $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS NORTH SAN MATEO COUNTY: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentDorothy Day House: $15,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentCANAL ALLIANCE: $40,000 · ReligionOLYMPIC CLUB FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Religion
Other$29,941,443Education$10,141,000Human Services$3,825,567Health$1,317,475Housing & Shelter$717,000Youth Development$439,000Religion$50,000

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 budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $4,750,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $4,350,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1,833,067 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetMERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER: $1,150,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTHE BASIC FUND: $800,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetSONOMA OVERNIGHT SUPPORT INC: $610,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetSEQUOIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $512,500 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetIRISH IMMIGRATION PASTORAL CENTER: $490,000 over 3y, 85% of budgetOrder of Malta Clinic of Northern California: $475,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetSALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $280,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetLa Casa de las Madres: $265,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetST FRANCIS CENTER OF REDWOOD CITY: $112,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSan Mateo Police Activities League Inc: $105,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetMILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $67,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $60,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $58,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE - SAN FRANCISCO: $55,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPALCARE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CHARLES ARMSTRONG SCHOOL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBAY SCHOLARS: $44,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetAGEUP INC: $40,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetKainos Home and Training Center for the Developmentally Disabled: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTHY CITIES TUTORING INC: $40,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY HOUSE INC: $39,975 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDALY CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATES: $39,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetMISSION HOSPICE & HOME CARE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JESUIT RETREAT CENTER OF LOS ALTOS: $35,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetService League of San Mateo County DBA Hope House: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPARTNERS AND ADVOCATES FOR REMARKABLE CHILDREN AND ADULTS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROTACARE BAY AREA INC: $27,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetStarVista: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS NORTH SAN MATEO COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCITY YOUTH NOW FKA VOLUNTEER AUXILIARY YOUTH GUIDANCE CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $25,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTHE ARC SAN FRANCISCO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetJOHN PAPAN MEMORIAL: $25,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALCOHOLIC REHABILITATION ASSN OF SF INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetRITTER CENTER: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH PENINSULA FOOD PANTRY & DINING CENTER OF DALY CITY: $20,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetHOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARBOR BAY SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $20,000 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 SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds University of San Francisco ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE BASIC FUND ↗
  • Who funds SONOMA OVERNIGHT SUPPORT INC ↗
  • Who funds SEQUOIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IRISH IMMIGRATION PASTORAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California ↗
  • Who funds SALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds La Casa de las Madres ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS CENTER OF REDWOOD CITY ↗
  • Who funds San Mateo Police Activities League Inc ↗

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 San Francisco Fou…Atkinson FoundationTrust Funds Incorpora…Silicon Valley Commun…The William G Irwin C…Odell Rs & Hp Fund Tu…Bothin FoundationMarin Community Found…Olympic Club Foundati…The Stanley S Langend…Jewish Community Fede…The Joseph & Mercedes…
The San Francisco FoundationCA53.1× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · Trust Funds Incorporated · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · Odell Rs & Hp Fund Tua-Main · Bothin Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Olympic Club Foundation · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Joseph & Mercedes McMicking 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 The Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 The Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert 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 145 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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