Texas · Private foundation
The Gelb Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $244k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Gelb Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $244k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $233k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $211k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $209k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $173k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $168k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $174k | 4% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $150k | 12% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Grand Opera Association Inc | $389,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $111,100 | 9 | 0% |
| University of St Thomas | $61,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Comp-U-Dopt Inc | $50,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Menil Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Holocaust Museum Houston | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $40,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($687k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gelb Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
About The Gelb Family Foundation
- How much does The Gelb Family Foundation give?
- The Gelb Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $244,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Gelb Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (33%), Philanthropy (23%), Health (10%).
- Who are The Gelb Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ($389k), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($111k), University of St Thomas ($61k).
- Does The Gelb Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gelb Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Gelb Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Gelb Family Foundation based?
- The Gelb Family Foundation is based in TX.
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