· Private foundation
The Dovid and Devorah Gelb Charity Fund
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Dovid and Devorah Gelb Charity Fund’s FY2023 grant dollars went to The Donors Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Dovid and Devorah Gelb Charity Fund named its own grantees at scale: 20 organizations, $117k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k64 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE DONORS FUND | $27,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Zichron Moshe | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,100 |
| Cong Zichron Moshe | $5,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Kollel Mei Torah | $3,600 |
| LAKEWOOD CHEDER | $3,055 |
| YAD ELIEZER | $2,260 |
| Keren Zichron Avrohom | $2,180 |
| KEREN HASHVIIS | $1,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| VAAD HARABBANIM | $1,800 |
| HATZOLAH | $1,360 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $660) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 57 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $522 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LILAMDEINI INC2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +140%
- ONOHR NAAVA3× · 2020–2022 · $396 · revenue +135%
- ATAHAVAS TZEDAKA INC2× · 2020–2021 · $360 · revenue +126%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- CFChesed Fund Limitedone grant, 2020 · $4k
- TTTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORPone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +34%
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.
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.
Religious Teaching
The furthurance of jewish concepts and religious beliefs.
The furtherance of primacy of orthodox jewish jurisprudence
Parochial elementary school with a focus on sephardic tradition.
Religious School
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
publish religious books
Providing jewish education to high school age students.
Keren hayeshivot fund supports religious institutions of higher education in the united states and israel to raise the level of torah and halachic observance in the sephardic orthodox jewish community.
To promote the furtherance of jewish religious and rabbinic education on a college and graduate level in israel and to increase the dissemination of scholarly research works in the fields of torah, talmud and halacha.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 103 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · The Sorala Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · The Basch Family Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Jmg Foundation · Donors Fund Inc · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · CCG Foundation a NJ Nonprofit Corporation · The Issachar & Miriam Bistritzky Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dovid and Devorah Gelb Charity Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dovid and Devorah Gelb Charity Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yeshiva Chayei Olam: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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