· Private foundation
The Harvey & Ruth Gelfenbein Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of THE HARVEY & RUTH GELFENBEIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k12 grants · $14k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GELFENBEIN-KAPLAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $704,982 |
| THE MECKLER GELFENBEIN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $704,982 |
| THE GELFENBEIN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $300,000 |
| COALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS | $1,766 |
| STUDENTS RISING ABOVE | $1,766 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $1,766 |
| BARD PRISON INITIATIVE | $1,766 |
| OCEAN CONSERVANCY | $1,766 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,766 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,400 |
| COCHRAN'S | $1,000 |
| HAND IN HAND PARENTING | $500 |
| SISKIYOU SCHOOL | $500 |
| JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM | $150 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK | $100 |
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 (FY20–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +27% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 53 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
- FCFLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD3× · 2020–2022 · $8k · revenue +73%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC3× · 2020–2022 · $6k · revenue +68%
BARD COLLEGE3× · 2020–2023 · $5k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- NNYUFACESone grant, 2022 · $10k
- GHGOOD HEALTH IDEAS INC DBA COLON CANCER PREVENTION PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -18%
- BRBoca Raton Regional Hospital Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +44%
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.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
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.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
To discover, develop and deliver safe, effective and affordable vaccines for global public health. its vision is developing countries free of suffering from infectious disease.
Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gelfenbein-Kaplan Charitable Foundation Inc. 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 44 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 82% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 127 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 GELFENBEIN-KAPLAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT ↗
- Who funds GOOD HEALTH IDEAS INC DBA COLON CANCER PREVENTION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PROTECT OUR WINTERS ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds KING STREET CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds PUNTA SANTIAGO DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds SISKIYOU INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc ↗
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: The Vermont Community Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc · Charles L Weisberg Family Foundation · George W Mergens Foundation · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Fanny Allen Corporation
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 Harvey & Ruth Gelfenbein Charitable 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.
- Vermont Kidney Association — 100% of income from government
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- Janet Munt Family Room — 44% of income from government
- King Street Center Inc — 43% of income from government
- Vermont Natural Resources Council Inc — 30% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc — 16% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- HowardCenter Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Common Roots Inc — 0% 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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