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The Elma and Milton a Gilbert Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Elma and Milton a Gilbert 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.

$850
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$850
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$102kEducation$49kHealth$14kInternational$10kReligion$5kCivil Rights$2kPhilanthropy$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$850
Median grant
1
States reached
$404k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TNSSA$850
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LEGACY GLOBAL PROGRAMS FBO: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5k → 22%MULTIDISCIPLINAER ASS PSYCHEDELIC: $650 → 8%AIPAC: $2k → 12%UJA FEDERATION: $500 → 6%SUFFOLK COUNTY POLICE: $500 → 7%THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPH: $1k → 9%ICE THEATRE OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%HEBREW HOME AT RIVERSPRING: $100k → 28%UT CHABAD: $10k → 10%AMERICAN ISRAEL AFFAIRS: $2k → 14%RIVERDALE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%EPIDEMIC ANSWERS: $300 → 11%TNSSA: $850 → 14%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $2k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3k → 22%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $2k → 7%NYU LANGONE: $5k → 17%RIVERDALE CITY SCHOOL: $10k → 28%RIVERDALE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISOR: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1k → 22%FRIENDS OF THE UNTIED HA: $2k → 17%RIVERDALE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%FAMILIA DYSAUTONOMIA: $500 → 17%RIVERDALE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%PHYSICIANS FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: $500 → 17%UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $2k → 17%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $1k → 17%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $1k → 17%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $1k → 17%LEUKEMIA FIGHTERS: $10k → 17%PROJECT LYME: $2k → 17%PROJECT LYME: $2k → 17%PROJECT LYME: $1k → 17%COLUMBIA GRAMMER: $600 → 17%RESCUE DOGS ROCK NYC: $500 → 17%COLUMBIA GRAMMAR: $350 → 17%PROJECT LYME: $500 → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $500 → 17%HEBREW PUBLIC: $2k → 17%STAND WITH US: $360 → 17%PROJECT ALS: $1k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH: $2k → 17%CROHNS & COLITIS: $500 → 17%ISRAEL ENDOWMENT: $218 → 17%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

IL
NY
OR
PA
CT
CA
AZ
TN
DC
TX
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.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35k · 4 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
31

Total granted

$35k
$169k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-20%
-13%

Still filing today

75%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $850 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyEducationCivil RightsOther
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

  • RS
    RIVERDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2021 · $25k · revenue -20%
  • PL
    PROJECT LYME
    4× · 2018–2023 · $5k · revenue -29%
  • CS
    CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE
    3× · 2018–2020 · $3k

Funded once

  • HH
    HEBREW HOME AT RIVERSPRING
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • LG
    LEGACY GLOBAL PROGRAMS FBO
    one grant, 2024 · $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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
5
The Administrators in Medicine Foundation
Health
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Nyu Langone Health System

The board adopted mission statement is: the corporation is operated exclusively for the benefit of nyu langone hospitals and its affiliated organizations. in this capacity, the corporation, may, in order to improve the health and welfare…

Health
8
Parkinson's Disease Research Society

Research to find a cure for parkinson's disease.

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9
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

The foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with parkinson's today.

Health
10
Alzheimer's Impact Movement

To advance and develop policies to overcome alzheimer's and all other dementia through increased investment in research, enhanced care and improved support.

Health
11
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc

To create and lead alliances and public-private partnerships that advance breakthrough biomedical discoveries and improve the quality of people's lives

Health
12
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Als Inc; the most unlike its peers is Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. 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

9 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. 9 of the 37 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEBREW HOME AT RIVERSPRING: $100,000 · OtherHEBREW HOME AT RIVERSPRINGIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLEGACY GLOBAL PROGRAMS FBO: $10,000 · OtherLEGACY GLOBAL PROGRAMS FBOIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRIVERDALE CITY SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherRIVERDALE CITY SCHOOL+24 more: $29,206 · Other+24 moreRIVERDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyRIVERDALE SCHO…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH …TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $8,500 · EducationDocumenting Hope Inc: $300 · EducationPROJECT LYME: $5,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 · HealthPROJECT ALS INC: $1,000 · HealthPhysicians For Reproductive Health: $500 · Civil Rights
Other$169,206Philanthropy$27,000Education$8,800Health$7,500Civil Rights$500

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 budgetRIVERDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT LYME: $5,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICE THEATRE OF NEW YORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT ALS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians For Reproductive Health: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDocumenting Hope Inc: $300 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 RIVERDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT LYME ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ICE THEATRE OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ALS INC ↗
  • Who funds Physicians For Reproductive Health ↗
  • Who funds Documenting Hope 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Elma and Milton a Gilbert Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Elma and Milton a Gilbert Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 37 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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