· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $3,400 |
| COLUMBIA COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| AOPA FOUNDATION | $1,800 |
| ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,800 |
| CONGREGATION RODEF SHOLOM | $1,800 |
| REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP | $1,800 |
| JEWISH WOMEN INTL | $1,800 |
| JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $1,800 |
| NEW JERSEY Y CAMPS | $1,800 |
| ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH AM | $1,000 |
| JCC Association of North America | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CONTEMPORARY ARTS FOUDNATION | $950 |
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 (FY17–25, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
40 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 10 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GDGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL6× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +5%
- BJBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON5× · 2017–2022 · $63k · revenue +11%
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC5× · 2018–2024 · $38k · revenue +231%
Funded once
- AHASPEN HIGHER LEARNING FLIGHT ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +261%
- PEPARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +247%
- ADANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUEone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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…
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
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…
Acrp promotes excellence in clinical research. we support clinical research professionals through training and development, the exchange of ideas and expertise, and certification. we serve as the preferred source for quality tools,…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
How this is measured
65 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. 65 of the 126 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 GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds VETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds ASPEN HIGHER LEARNING FLIGHT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC ↗
- Who funds PARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Women International ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds USAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Aspen Jewish Center ↗
- Who funds WILKES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Forward Association Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gottdenker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gottdenker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Medstar Health Inc: 23% of income from government
- Parent Encouragement Program Inc: 22% of income from government
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc: 5% of income from government
- Out Now Inc: 2% of income from government
- Bender Jcc of Greater Washington: 1% of income from government
- Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Keshet Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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