Florida · Private foundation
The Gottdenker 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.
- $28k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $578k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations The Gottdenker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $26k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $37k | 53% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $45k | 73% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $57k | 46% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $55k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $110k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $87k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $77k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgetown Day School | $87,360 | 6 | 0% |
| Bender Jcc of Greater Washington | $63,132 | 5 | 0% |
| Congregation Bnai Tzedek | $39,838 | 6 | n/a |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $38,350 | 5 | 0% |
| Veterans Airlift Command | $31,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Hope for Henry Foundation | $14,770 | 4 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington | $13,360 | 6 | 0% |
| Aspen Higher Learning Flight Academy Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Sixth & I Synagogue Inc | $10,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Parent Encouragement Program Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 67 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($166k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gottdenker Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · George Wasserman Family Foundation Inc · Duber Family Foundation · Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · American Gift Fund · The Bessie Family Foundation · Alan and Amy Meltzer Family Foundation Inc · Galena-Yorktown Foundation
How this is measured
About The Gottdenker Foundation
- How much does The Gottdenker Foundation give?
- The Gottdenker Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $27,650 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Gottdenker Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Religion (25%), Philanthropy (13%).
- Who are The Gottdenker Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Georgetown Day School ($87k), Bender Jcc of Greater Washington ($63k), Congregation Bnai Tzedek ($40k).
- Does The Gottdenker Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gottdenker Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Gottdenker Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.
- Where is The Gottdenker Foundation based?
- The Gottdenker Foundation is based in FL.
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