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The Jack and Sarita Gantz Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Jack and Sarita Gantz Foundation Inc

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.

$751k
Granted FY2025still arriving
59
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.1MYouth Development$259kHuman Services$245kHealth$204kInternational$195kReligion$161kCivil Rights$114kOther$0
02FY2025 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $329k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $363k
$6,500
Median grant
16
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UJA FEDERATION$150,000
METRO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$63,192
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO ANSCHUTZ - DOUG JONES ENDOWED CHAIR$50,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DENVER$50,000
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS$50,000
P E F ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$40,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$25,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL & WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS - BONNIE CAMP FUND$25,000
THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST$20,000
THE MCGILLIS SCHOOL$16,667
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$16,400
MERCY UNIVERSITY$15,500
JEWISH COLORADO$15,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$12,250
DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION$12,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $197k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HAZLETON INTEGRATION PROJECT: $1k → 15%BRONX JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $100 → 28%SHALOM PARK: $200 → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DENVER: $50k → 12%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DENVER: $50k → 12%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DENVER: $35k → 12%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DENVER: $15k → 12%BETHESDA CARES INC: $3k → 8%ADOPTION EXCHANGE: $5k → 12%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $26k → 17%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $10k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 79 repeat orgs$534k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

79 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
75

Total granted

$3.8M
$270k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+17%

Still filing today

58%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $264k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +46%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER
    4× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +64%
  • MU
    MERCY UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $137k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • HC
    HART CENTER FOR FOR PUBLIC SERVICE
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • TB
    TEMPLE BETH EL
    one grant, 2024 · $24k
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
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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.

Education
2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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3
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

—
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

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…

Health
6
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
7
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
8
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
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
12
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. 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

101 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. 101 of the 187 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/101
Grantees still filing
64/101
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $911,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADOMADISON AVENUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $224,466 · OtherMADISON AVENUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBHAND IN HAND: $126,500 · OtherHAND IN HAND+125 more: $1,033,219 · Other+125 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,124,800 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATIO…JEWISHColorado: $46,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $41,500 · PhilanthropyMERCY UNIVERSITY: $136,500 · EducationMERCY UNIV…THE MCGILLIS SCHOOL: $52,500 · EducationTHE MCGILL…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50,000 · EducationTRUSTEES O…GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS: $50,000 · EducationGREENHOUSE…GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO: $47,500 · EducationGREAT EDUC…EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION: $36,625 · EducationEMILY GRIF…COLLEGE MATCH: $15,000 · Education+11 more: $41,600 · Education+11 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER: $150,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $36,000 · Human Services+7 more: $11,833 · Human ServicesISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $47,800 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · InternationalCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $15,800 · InternationalCOLORADO HOSTING ASYLUM NETWORK: $10,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF CARITAS CUBANA CORP: $10,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $7,000 · International+3 more: $2,938 · InternationalAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS: $50,000 · HealthThe Virginia Hospital Center Foundation: $20,000 · HealthBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $16,000 · HealthMATERNAL & FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $10,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $5,000 · HealthHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $4,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $4,000 · Health+3 more: $3,500 · HealthTHE BELL POLICY CENTER: $34,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $16,400 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $12,950 · Civil RightsCUBA STUDY GROUP INC: $11,500 · Civil RightsLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsCOBALT FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Civil RightsROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK: $5,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$2,295,185Philanthropy$1,212,300Education$429,725Human Services$197,833International$118,538Health$113,000Civil Rights$101,850

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 budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,124,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER: $150,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMERCY UNIVERSITY: $136,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MCGILLIS SCHOOL: $52,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREENHOUSE SCHOLARS: $50,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $47,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT EDUCATION COLORADO: $47,500 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetJEWISHColorado: $46,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCE12 FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetEMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION: $36,625 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $36,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BELL POLICY CENTER: $34,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALGEMEINER INC: $23,600 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Virginia Hospital Center Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC: $18,225 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN: $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $16,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $15,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $12,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCUBA STUDY GROUP INC: $11,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO HOSTING ASYLUM NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMATERNAL & FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALBERT EINSTEIN ACADEMY: $9,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOBALT FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $5,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL LIVER INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAVERN CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNicholas House Inc: $3,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $2,500 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.

  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds MERCY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE MCGILLIS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
  • Who funds CE12 FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY ↗
  • Who funds THE BELL POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALGEMEINER INC ↗
  • Who funds The Virginia Hospital Center Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN ↗

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.

Rose Community Founda…The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…The Colorado Health F…Boettcher FoundationTemple Hoyne Buell Fo…Caring for Colorado F…Western Union Foundat…Rose FoundationGary PhilanthropyThe Anschutz Foundati…The Colorado Trust
Rose Community FoundationCO38.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Rose Foundation · Gary Philanthropy · The Anschutz Foundation · The Colorado Trust

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 Jack and Sarita Gantz Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jack and Sarita Gantz Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Bethesda Cares Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Albert Einstein Academy: 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Jack and Sarita Gantz Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 187 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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