How much did THE GELLMAN FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of THE GELLMAN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

dallas

2019

unc chapelchapel hillakiba dallasdistrict

2020

israel

2021

votelos angeles

2022

los angeleschabadhealth

2023

los angelestemple bethchabad

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

ROSALIE MURREY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$5,000
COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SPOKANE$5,000
CHABAD OF EUGENE$3,600
TEMPLE NASHUVA$3,000
VILLAGE LIFE OUTREACH PROJECT$3,000
MARBLE HOUSE PROJECT$3,000
RANGE SMITH-BARBIERI FUND$3,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$3,000
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$2,900
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS$2,500
BOLTS (THE POLITICAL REPORT)$2,500
CHABAD HOUSE OF SPOKANE$2,000
PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT$2,000
NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENCE COUNCIL$2,000
TEMPLE IKAR MINYAN TZEDEK$2,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$280k · 39 repeat orgs$124k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$280k

$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%

+70%

Still filing today

28%

22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureCivil RightsInternationalCrime & LegalOther

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

VL
VILLAGE LIFE OUTREACH PROJECT
7× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +15%
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION
4× · 2020–2023 · $24k · revenue +11%
COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SPOKANE
3× · 2022–2024 · $21k · revenue +189%

Funded once

VO
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA - HOPE HOUSE
one grant, 2021 · $10k
ML
MEDICAL LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT
one grant, 2019 · $7k
GL
GONZAGA LAW SCHOOL
one grant, 2017 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Holocaust Center for Humanity

The Holocaust Center for Humanity teaches the lessons of the Holocaust, inspiring students of all ages to confront bigotry and indifference, promote human dignity, and take action.

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The Jewish Studio Project

Jsp cultivates creativity as a jewish practice for spiritual connection and social transformation. we envision a future in which every person is connected to their inherent creativity as a force for healing, liberation and transformation.

Religion

Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle

The federation leads a strong jewish puget sound by serving as a community voice, (see schedule o) strengthening connections to israel and world jewry, and making investments in jewish life, for today and the next generation.

Philanthropy

Spark Northwest

Spark Northwest accelerates the equitable transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest through on-the-ground project development and systemic advocacy to remove barriers to locally-generated clean energy.

Environment

The Urbanist

Seattle-based online publication seeking to examine and influence urban policies.

Community Improvement

Seattle Architectural Foundation

The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design and history of Seattle. We provide entertaining workshops, dynamic tours, educational seminars and enthusiastic community advocacy. Through our programs and…

Arts & Culture

Artist Trust

Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.

Arts & Culture

Jewish Film Institute

The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere.

Arts & Culture

Jewish Federation of Greater Portland

To assure the building and strengthening of the jewish community locally, nationally, overseas and in israel, in accordance with jewish values.

Philanthropy

Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment

Spokane Parks Foundation

Improve parks in the greater Spokane area through donations for activities & community projects.

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Legacy Health Foundation

Legacy Health Foundation's mission is to foster charitable giving as well as community commitment and involvement to support the founding principles, mission and vision of legacy health and promote the health and well-being of the…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Jewish National Fund. 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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 21% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/36

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,529

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.

05the grantee network

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/29

Grantees still filing

24/29

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$262,960Health$48,800Human Services$38,000Education$24,000International$14,000Civil Rights$12,000Arts & Culture$4,000

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.

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.

Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC5.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 organisation THE GELLMAN 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SPOKANE JAZZ SOCIETY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 510185433 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SPOKANE JAZZ SOCIETY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Gellman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Gellman Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE GELLMAN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Gellman Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE GELLMAN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Gellman Foundation?

More from the funding graph