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The Gittis Katz Foundation at a glance

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The Gittis Katz 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.

$17k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$608kEmployment$58kPhilanthropy$33kReligion$30kHealth$26kYouth Development$25kCivil Rights$21kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$600
Median grant
3
States reached
$168k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
MAIN LINE REFORM TEMPLE$2,991
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$2,000
LIVE LIKE BLAINE FOUNDATION$600
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$600
JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE$500
BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$500
THE PAP CORPS$400
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, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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%JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $750 → 10%JCHAI: $500 → 10%JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $500 → 10%JCHAI: $500 → 10%JCHAI: $500 → 10%JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $500 → 10%JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $250 → 10%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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$442k · 9 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$442k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+110%

Still filing today

78%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthEmploymentCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SS
    SHIPLEY SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2023 · $250k · revenue +18%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $100k · revenue +51%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    4× · 2017–2021 · $21k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • SC
    SECOND CHANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $58k · revenue +184%
  • SC
    SECOND CHANCE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • TJ
    THE JEWISH MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +43%
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
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
6
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
7
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
8
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
9
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life At the Penn State University

To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…

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10
University of Judaism Foundation
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11
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
12
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University; the most unlike its peers is Second Chance 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

15 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. 15 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $250,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIASHIPLEY SCHOOL: $249,999 · EducationSHIPLEY SCHOOLDUKE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY+2 more: $8,400 · EducationMAIN LINE REFORM TEMPLE: $30,344 · OtherMAIN LINE…SECOND CHANCE INC: $25,000 · OtherSECOND CH…Individual grant recipient: $9,000 · OtherIndividua…+7 more: $3,660 · Other+7 moreSECOND CHANCE INC: $57,500 · EmploymentJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $32,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $360 · PhilanthropyANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $21,000 · Civil RightsBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $20,000 · Community ImprovementJUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $3,500 · Human Services
Education$608,399Other$68,004Employment$57,500Philanthropy$32,860Civil Rights$21,000Community Improvement$20,000Human Services$3,500

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHIPLEY SCHOOL: $249,999 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE INC: $57,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $32,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE LIKE BLAINE FOUNDATION: $3,900 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetJUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $360 over 1y, 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.

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.

Tzedakah FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Tzedakah FoundationPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tzedakah Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 21 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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