· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Indiana Bulls Baseball | $2,000 |
| Batbusters Indiana | $2,000 |
| American Amusement Machine Association | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +45% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 27 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.
- 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 ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gelatka Family Foundation Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gelatka Family Foundation Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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