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The Gelb Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k18 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $15,400 |
| RABBI ISAAC ELCHONON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $12,200 |
| CONGREGATION POZNA | $10,500 |
| AVIGDOR'S HELPING HAND | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH BTZFAT | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,200 |
| INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR PRESERVATION OF HAR HAZEITIM INC | $5,000 |
| CONG BAIS MORDECHAI DBERTCH | $5,000 |
| CONG BNEI SHLOMA ZALMAN | $3,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| CONGREGATION YECHESKAL SHRAGA INC | $1,800 |
| FLATBUSH SATMAR BIKUR CHOLIM | $1,360 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those 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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- TMTHE MANHATTAN CHILDRENS CENTER2× · 2017–2020 · $34k · revenue +67%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH BTZFAT INC5× · 2019–2023 · $28k · revenue +62%
- AHAVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC4× · 2019–2023 · $28k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- MFMCC FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -5%
- VVARIOUSone grant, 2019 · $11k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IRgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +34%
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.
Religious School
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
To provide support to jewish religious education in israel and around the world, and provide financial assistance to and on behalf of yeshivah beth israel tifereth menachem.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
Religious Teaching
Support of religious schools in Israel
The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.
To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.
A post-secondary school offering an educational program in talmudic study
To promote, assist, and sponsor the spreading of Jewish religious education in Israel. The organization will also organize inspirational gatherings in the USA to enhance the participants' Torah knowledge.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Kupat Ha'ir and the most unlike its peers is International Committee for the Preservation of Har Hazeitim Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
17 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. 17 of the 52 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 INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HAR HAZEITIM INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY ↗
- Who funds THE MANHATTAN CHILDRENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH BTZFAT INC ↗
- Who funds AVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC ↗
- Who funds MCC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds West Side Hatzoloh ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Mutual of America Foundation · The Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn · Allen I Gross Charitable Foundation · The Fishoff Family Foundation · Keren Zichron Aron Foundation The · CSP Foundation · Bcg Charitable Foundation · Md Friedman Family Foundation · The Ohr Hakotel Foundation · Astar Foundation Inc
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 Gelb 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.
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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