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The Gitlin Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$200k
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 2024.

Health$7.3MHuman Services$2.0MReligion$1.8MArts & Culture$742kFood & Nutrition$620kEducation$608kInternational$400kAnimals$230kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $359k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSP$200,000
ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION$100,000
JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY$100,000
THE MANN CENTER FO PERFORMING ARTS$100,000
CONGREGATION OF BETH OR$100,000
RUBYE'S KIDS$80,000
FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER$80,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MADEN DAVID$57,500
JACK BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY$50,000
PHILABUNDANCE$50,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$50,000
MAJORIE & LEWIS KATZ JCC$50,000
PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$50,000
TOYS FOR TOTS$30,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$30,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RUBYE'S KIDS: $100k → 7%Rubye's Kids: $75k → 7%Rubye's Kids: $75k → 7%Rubye's Kids: $50k → 7%Rubyes Kids: $50k → 7%MOTHER'S HOME: $10k → 10%MOTHER'S HOME: $10k → 10%MOTHER'S HOME: $10k → 10%Mothers Home: $10k → 10%Mother's Home: $5k → 10%Mothers Home: $5k → 10%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $100k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $100k → 7%Jewish Relief Agency: $100k → 7%Jewish Relief Agency: $50k → 7%Jewish Relief Agency: $50k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $25k → 7%Jewish Relief Agency: $25k → 7%RUBYE'S KIDS: $80k → 7%RUBYE'S KIDS: $75k → 7%RUBYE'S KIDS: $50k → 7%MATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD: $10k → 7%Mattie N Dixon Community Cupboard: $10k → 7%MATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD: $10k → 7%MATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD: $10k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA: $5k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA: $5k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

NY
NV
SD
PA
NJ
CA
KY
VA
DC
GA
TX
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 57 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
34

Total granted

$12M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+26%

Still filing today

58%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +32%
  • AH
    ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +150%
  • RK
    RUBYE'S KIDS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $555k · revenue +10% · 76% of their budget

Funded once

  • TU
    Temple University Hospital Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $900k · revenue +26%
  • AC
    ABRAMSON CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • TJ
    Thomas Jefferson Univeristy Hospital
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
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.

1
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
3
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
4
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
5
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
6
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Foundation

Operating under the name mjhs foundation, the mission of this philanthropic organization is to raise the funds necessary to support the charitable health care efforts of the organizations within the mjhs health system family. with roots…

Health
7
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…

Health
8
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
9
Philadelphia University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education
10
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
11
Mjhs Hospice and Palliative Care Inc

To provide hospice services on both an inpatient and outpatient basis

Human Services
12
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

The foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with parkinson's today.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Temple University Hospital 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

40 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. 40 of the 96 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
34/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Fox Chase Cancer Center: $1,340,000 · OtherFox Chase Cancer CenterCONGREGATION BETH OR: $1,333,148 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH ORTemple Health Foundation: $500,000 · OtherTemple Health FoundationThe Mann Center for Performing Arts: $325,000 · OtherRAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $325,000 · OtherTHE MANN CENTER FO PERFORMING ARTS: $300,000 · OtherCONGREGATION OF BETH OR: $260,000 · Other+64 more: $3,259,500 · Other+64 moreTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC: $1,200,000 · HealthTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPIT…ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,150,000 · HealthABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATIONTemple University Hospital Inc: $900,000 · HealthTemple University Hospital IncTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $300,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADE…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $300,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADE…DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Health+5 more: $306,000 · Health+5 moreRUBYE'S KIDS INC: $555,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $450,000 · Human ServicesMOTHERS' HOME: $50,000 · Human ServicesMATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC: $40,000 · Human Services+1 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesPhilabundance: $505,000 · Food & NutritionMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $160,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $60,000 · PhilanthropyJAWS YOUTH FUND INC: $38,500 · PhilanthropySTEVEN M PEREZ FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · EducationMIGHTY WRITERS: $95,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $80,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $70,000 · International+1 more: $5,000 · International
Other$7,642,648Health$4,356,000Human Services$1,110,000Food & Nutrition$505,000Philanthropy$258,500Education$245,000International$155,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC: $1,200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,150,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetTemple University Hospital Inc: $900,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUBYE'S KIDS INC: $555,000 over 8y, 76% of budgetPhilabundance: $505,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $450,000 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetRAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $325,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSTEVEN M PEREZ FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY: $125,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALS Hope Foundation: $96,000 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $95,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS' HOME: $50,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARTIES OF NORTHEASTERN PENSYLVANIA INC: $50,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetMATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetJAWS YOUTH FUND INC: $38,500 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetANIMAL DEFENDERS INTERNATIONAL INC US: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA ON MAIN STREET: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMIRACLE FLIGHTS: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget1812 PRODUCTIONS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC ↗
  • Who funds ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Temple University Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds RUBYE'S KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEVEN M PEREZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds ALS Hope Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗

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.

The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb CharitableDE17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gitlin Family Foundation · The Windmill Foundation Inc · Steven and Ilene Berman Family Foundation Inc · Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee · Vna Foundation of Greater North Penn · Genuardi Family Foundation · Quest for the Best · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Phillies Charities Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 96 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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