· Private foundation
The Gelatka Family Foundation Ltd
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $239k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Red Star Foundation | $238,500 |
| St Ignatius College Prep | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Chicago Blackhawks Foundation | $4,950 |
| American Cancer Society | $2,500 |
| Batbusters Indiana | $2,000 |
| Indiana Bulls Baseball | $2,000 |
| American Amusement Machine Association | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RSRed Star Foundation Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $249k · 79% of their budget
- SISt Ignatius College Prep5× · 2021–2025 · $108k
- FRFOREST RIDGE ACADEMY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $71k · revenue +54%
Funded once
University of Chicagograduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +52%- FRForest Ridge Academy - Galaone grant, 2019 · $15k
- MYMIDWEST YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2023 · $11k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Teaching the ideals of sports, including sportsmanship, teamwork, fair play,discipline, respect, honesty, loyalty and courage; developing healthier, happier and more confident youth; combating juvenile delinquency by keeping youths…
Provide youth baseball training,competitive games in a league system. stressing teamwork, sportsmanship and providing encouragement and information regarding student goals for playing sports at the college level. volunteer coaches and…
To foster the growth of amateur baseball in the united states and to organize national and international baseball competitions.
The mission is to further cancer research. funds raised by the organization are donated to various medical and related organizations for the purpose of conducting cancer research.
The Summit City Sluggers Baseball Team is a developmental tool for athletes in the surrounding Fort Wayne area. This team is for athletes who have the goals for improving their skills against the best competition available in the area.
Coordination of Summer Baseball Programs for Bloomington/Normal Children and Young Adults
Baseball Training
The purpose of the association shall be to foster, promote, provide, and advance the acuse of baseball and softball for the children of the northville school district, the city of northville, and northville township (hereinafter referred…
To enlarge and advance the scope of amateur baseball by stimulating interest and competition, and to provide a sound, experienced organization to assist and educate local groups in obtaining the maximum citizenship values.
To conduct activities to foster participation and interest in national or international amateur sports competition.
Baseball team and league
Youth sports competition
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Bulls Baseball Inc and the most unlike its peers is Red Star Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 27 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Red Star Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FOREST RIDGE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN AMUSEMENT MACHINE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Chicago Blackhawks Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BATBUSTERS INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA BULLS BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN YOUTH BASEBALL INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Gelatka Family Foundation Ltd 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.
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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