· Private foundation
The Gelfond Family Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STEPHEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE | $15,000 |
| LEARNING SPRING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $10,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $7,500 |
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $7,500 |
| CITIZENS' COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC | $6,500 |
| TEMPLE MICAH | $6,379 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC | $5,850 |
| FRIENDS OF NEW YORK CITY NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP | $5,500 |
| HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM | $4,090 |
| WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| WORLD UNION FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 7 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $80k · revenue +76%- TNTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC7× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +230%
- CCCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +50%
Funded once
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +40%
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATEDone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +2%- NYNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +52%
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership With Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Youthaiti 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 52 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 76 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 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NEW YORK CITY NURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds POLYPHONY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds YOUTHAITI INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds DOROT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Strong Foundation of New York · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Fjc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Gelfond 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
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.