· Private foundation
The Gitlitz 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| 2LIFE COMMUNITIES | $1,180 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,010 |
| ADL | $1,000 |
| SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER | $1,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD HEBREW CENTER | $680 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ISREAL'S EMERGENCY SERVICES SYSTEM | $360 |
| ALZEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $315 |
| FARM NECK FOUNDATION | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $206 |
| CHABAD OF MARTHAS VINEYARD | $180 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD NY | $100 |
| ANIMAL SHELTER OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD | $100 |
| ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $100 |
| SOUTH FLORIDA PBS | $60 |
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 (FY17–20, $400) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +78%
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC3× · 2018–2025 · $2k · revenue +49%- WIWORK INCORPORATED3× · 2017–2020 · $1k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- PPPRECIOUS PROJ INCone grant, 2020 · $7k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +21%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
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How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 103 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 WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FARM NECK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC ↗
- Who funds 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTONGIVES INC ↗
- Who funds PRECIOUS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE VINEYARD HAVEN PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK 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: Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Richard and Clare Lesser Family Foundation · The Kathryn Goodman Foundation · Henry & Anne Garfinkle Foundation Inc · Justin & Genevieve Wyner Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gitlitz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gitlitz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Work Incorporated: 76% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc: 4% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc: 3% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc: 2% of income from government
- Friends of Mvyradio Inc: 1% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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