New York · 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.
- $130k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 41
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations The Gelfond Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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 | 37 | $122k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $104k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $99k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $94k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $99k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $97k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $91k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $71k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington University | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The News Literacy Project Inc | $73,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Citizens Committee for Children of New York Inc | $68,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of New York City Nurse Family Partnership | $52,957 | 9 | 3% |
| Hebrew Free Loan Society Inc | $27,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Trustees of the New York Society Library | $26,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Citymeals-On-Wheels | $25,000 | 7 | 0% |
| New York City Ballet Inc | $21,350 | 5 | 0% |
| Congregation Rodeph Sholom | $19,330 | 8 | n/a |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $19,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($147k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gelfond 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: 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
How this is measured
About The Gelfond Family Foundation
- How much does The Gelfond Family Foundation give?
- The Gelfond Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $129,576 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Gelfond Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Health (14%), Civil Rights (12%).
- Who are The Gelfond Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Washington University ($80k), The News Literacy Project Inc ($74k), Citizens Committee for Children of New York Inc ($69k).
- Does The Gelfond Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gelfond Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Gelfond Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The New York Community Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is The Gelfond Family Foundation based?
- The Gelfond Family Foundation is based in NY.
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