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.

The Gelfond Family Foundation

The Gelfond Family Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$170kHealth$116kCivil Rights$100kArts & Culture$83kPublic Benefit$78kFood & Nutrition$71kInternational$57kReligion$49kOther$0

02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k35 grants · $92k
$10k–50k3 grants · $38k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$774k · 53 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$774k

$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+7%

Still filing today

75%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionInternationalEnvironmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 UNIVERSITY
4× · 2017–2020 · $80k · revenue +76%
TN
THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +230%
CC
CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +50%

Funded once

CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +40%
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED
one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +2%
NY
NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +52%

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.

04Its field

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.

New York University

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.

Education

New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Public Media Nj Inc

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

Arts & Culture

University of New Haven

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…

Education

American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture

United States Naval Institute

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.

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City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture

The Architectural League of New York

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…

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National Public Radio Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

The Paris Review Foundation Inc

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,…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership With Children Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 76 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

55/57

Grantees still filing

42/57

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$402,186Education$169,300Health$93,957Food & Nutrition$63,750International$46,000Arts & Culture$42,443Human Services$34,750

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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY24× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Gelfond Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gelfond Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home