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The Fred Gellert Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$195k
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Environment$365kHuman Services$149kHealth$122kEducation$106kCivil Rights$95kArts & Culture$62kYouth Development$57kHousing & Shelter$49kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k38 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PSEADS$20,000
MOUNTAIN PLAY ASSOCIATION$20,000
GREEN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE$15,000
REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION$10,000
RESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE$10,000
CLIMATE CENTER$10,000
FREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE$10,000
VIVALON$8,500
EXTRAFOODORG$6,000
SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION$5,000
OIL AND GAS ACTION NETWORK (CLIMATE HEALTH NOW)$5,000
ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH MUSIC$5,000
HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME$5,000
KQED INC$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SHASTA-DIABLO INC$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $151k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $10k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $5k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $5k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $5k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $5k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $2k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $5k → 10%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SF: $5k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $5k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $5k → 10%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SF: $5k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $5k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $5k → 10%SUPPLYBANKORG: $8k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 10%BY THE BAY HEALTH: $5k → 8%HOSPICE BY THE BAY: $5k → 8%REFUGIA MARIN: $2k → 8%COMMONWEAL: $5k → 8%COMMONWEAL: $5k → 8%VIVALON: $9k → 8%WHISTLESTOP: $8k → 8%VIVALON: $5k → 8%VIVALON: $5k → 8%VIVALON: $5k → 8%MAKE IT HOME: $3k → 8%MAKE IT HOME: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
NY
MA
NV
CA
DC
GA
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 61 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

61 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
20

Total granted

$1.0M
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+11%

Still filing today

93%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentHealthEducationArts & CultureAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • GS
    GREEN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +8%
  • RF
    REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +365%
  • PP
    Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • CC
    COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +11%
  • AS YOU SOW
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -31%
  • The Ocean Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -29%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
2
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
3
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
4
Bay Nature Institute dba Bay Nature Bay Nature Magazine

Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind. Our vision is that all people have a close relationship with theirnatural world.

Environment
5
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
6
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
7
Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills

Our mission is to protect local nature and farmland to ensure a healthy environment for everyone.

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8
San Francisco Public Press

The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…

Education
9
Save the Bay

Our vision is a future where everyone benefits from a healthy San Francisco Bay, resilient to climate change and ringed by 100,000 acres of vibrant tidal marsh.

Environment
10
Transportation Alternatives for Marin
Public Benefit
11
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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12
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compass Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Ocean Voyages Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr18%40%20–35yr14%25%35–55yr13%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr18%36%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr13%19%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/82
the rest of the field
12%
4,163/34,608

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 90 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/81
Grantees still filing
58/81
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATIONOcean Voyages Institute — $25,000 · OtherOcean Voyages InstituteLa Casa de las Madres — $20,000 · OtherPRISTINE MIND FOUNDATION — $18,000 · OtherNOT IN OUR TOWN — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherSAFE & SOUND — $15,000 · OtherGLIDE FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherCANAL ALLIANCE — $14,000 · OtherExtrafood — $28,000 · OtherExtrafoodSTAND FOR FAMILIES FREE OF VIOLENCE — $15,000 · Other+28 more — $161,500 · Other+28 moreGREEN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE — $90,000 · EnvironmentGREEN SCIENCE POLICY INS…RESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE — $60,000 · EnvironmentRESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITU…Sustainable Conservation — $33,000 · EnvironmentSustainable ConservationBaykeeper — $18,000 · EnvironmentBaykeeperThe Ocean Foundation — $10,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $10,000 · Environment+5 more — $20,000 · Environment+5 moreHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $32,000 · Human ServicesHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH …Vivalon — $31,500 · Human ServicesVivalonHOLY FAMILY DAY HOME — $25,000 · Human ServicesHOLY FAMILY DAY HO…Larkin Street Youth Services — $17,000 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Yout…ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY — $15,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE PAUL…EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO — $10,000 · Human ServicesEPISCOPAL COMMUNIT…BY THE BAY HEALTH — $10,000 · Human ServicesBY THE BAY HEALTHCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMPASS FAMILY SER…COMMONWEAL — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMONWEALRITTER CENTER — $9,000 · Human ServicesK TO COLLEGE DBA SUPPLYBANKORG — $8,000 · Human Services+2 more — $7,000 · Human ServicesPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc — $35,000 · HealthPlanned Pare…MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $32,000 · HealthMARIN GENERA…MARIN COMMUNITY CLINIC — $15,000 · HealthMARIN COMMUN…Turning Green — $14,000 · HealthTurning Gree…Giant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc — $11,000 · HealthGiant Steps …NATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION — $5,000 · Health+4 more — $9,000 · Health+4 moreThe Climate Center — $35,000 · EducationThe Climat…Pseads — $22,000 · EducationPseads826 Valencia — $14,000 · Education826 Valenc…Belvedere Tiburon Library Foundation — $11,000 · EducationBelvedere …AIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL — $8,000 · EducationAIM HIGH F…ASPIRE EDUCATION PROJECT — $5,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College — $4,000 · Education+1 more — $3,000 · EducationMOUNTAIN PLAY ASSOCIATION — $31,000 · Arts & CultureEnriching Lives Through Music — $17,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INC — $8,000 · Arts & CultureBELVEDERE-TIBURON LANDMARKS SOCIETY — $4,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $4,000 · Arts & CultureFREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC — $30,000 · Civil Rights
Other$391,500Environment$241,000Human Services$184,500Health$121,000Education$102,000Arts & Culture$64,000Civil Rights$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREEN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE — $90,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetRESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE — $60,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Climate Center — $35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSustainable Conservation — $33,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $32,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $32,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVivalon — $31,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN PLAY ASSOCIATION — $31,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetFREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetExtrafood — $28,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOcean Voyages Institute — $25,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHOLY FAMILY DAY HOME — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPseads — $22,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetLa Casa de las Madres — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBaykeeper — $18,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services — $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEnriching Lives Through Music — $17,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN COMMUNITY CLINIC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND FOR FAMILIES FREE OF VIOLENCE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE & SOUND — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE — $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTurning Green — $14,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budget826 Valencia — $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHomeward Bound of Marin — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADOPT A FAMILY OF MARIN — $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGiant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc — $11,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBelvedere Tiburon Library Foundation — $11,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAS YOU SOW — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBY THE BAY HEALTH — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONWEAL — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRITTER CENTER — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetK TO COLLEGE DBA SUPPLYBANKORG — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKQED INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREEF BALL FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Marin Community Found…McNabb FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Leonard & Beryl Buck …Jewish Community Fede…Hobsonlucas Family Fo…Bothin FoundationThe Springcreek Found…Silicon Valley Commun…Heffernan Group Found…The Feibusch Foundati…Harbor Point Charitab…
Marin Community FoundationCA61.6× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Bothin Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · The Feibusch Foundation · Harbor Point Charitable Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Fred Gellert Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to The Fred Gellert Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Fred Gellert Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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