· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| YAD BATYA L'KALLAH | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMTHE MANHATTAN CHILDRENS CENTER2× · 2017–2020 · $34k · revenue +67%
- AHAVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC4× · 2019–2023 · $28k · revenue +113%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH BTZFAT INC5× · 2019–2023 · $28k · revenue +62%
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 52 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 INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HAR HAZEITIM INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY ↗
- Who funds THE MANHATTAN CHILDRENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds AVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH BTZFAT 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 ↗
- Who funds American Friends Of Or National Missions ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gelb Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gelb Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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