· Private foundation
The Gelman-Shkury Family Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
53% of The Gelman-Shkury Family Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Gelman-Shkury Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $75k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k2 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP YAVNEH | $37,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL | $20,000 |
| CHABAD ISRAEL CENTER INC | $14,000 |
| EZRAT ISRAEL INC | $4,000 |
| M Y KEREN HASHLUCHIM INC | $360 |
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 (FY20–20, $360) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CYCAMP YAVNEH INC2× · 2021–2022 · $73k · revenue +85%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL INC3× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +525%
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC2× · 2019–2020 · $13k · revenue +234%
Funded once
- CICHABAD ISRAEL CENTER OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE INCone grant, 2020 · $18k
- IBISRAELI BOBSLEIGH AND SKELETON FEDERATION INCone grant, 2020 · $5k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIT 669 INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $360 · revenue ×15
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.
To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
To further jewish education in israel
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 19 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP YAVNEH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds PARENT TEACHER ASSOC PS 41 MANHATTAN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIT 669 INC ↗
- Who funds MENACHEM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 · Wolfensohn Family Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gelman-Shkury Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gelman-Shkury Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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