· Private foundation
The Gurwin Family Foundation Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of The Gurwin Family Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 29 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $74k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $476k
- $250k+1 grant · $267k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $266,852 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ | $126,000 |
| AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $75,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INST OF SCIENCE (ACWIS) | $75,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE (ADL) | $50,000 |
| CONGREGATION B'NAI JESHURUN | $29,422 |
| CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $14,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOODBANK OF NEW JERSEY | $10,000 |
| BRYN MAWR COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| WEST SIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER | $5,000 |
| INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY OF THE ORANGES | $5,000 |
| ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND (FKA ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA) | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ACAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $200k · revenue +6%
- CCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +12%
- CFCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- GJGURWIN JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $9k
- HOHILLEL OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA (PENN HILLEL)one grant, 2022 · $3k
- HOHILLEL OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA (UPENN HILLEL)one grant, 2023 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj and the most unlike its peers is Barnes Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 86 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE ORCHESTRA SOCIETYORPHEON INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY OF THE ORANGES ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
- Who funds Paper Mill Playhouse ↗
- Who funds The Summit Medical Group Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE RAPTOR TRUST ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HANDS ACROSS THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds WEST ORANGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACHIEVABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Investors Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Gurwin Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Grounds for Sculpture Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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