The@Gt Foundation

The@Gt Foundation (EIN 23-7927474, Lansdale, PA) is a small, closely held private family foundation run entirely by members of the Stanley and Delfiner families — Kenneth, Joan, and Nancy Stanley and Hannah, Ruth, and Michael Delfiner all serve as unpaid trustees, with correspondence addressed 'c/o Michael Delfiner' at a PO Box. There is no dedicated foundation website (the domain listed in public records, thegt.org, actually belongs to an unrelated tech/email service), no online application portal, and no published RFP or LOI process. The database record's own `application_instructions` field is blank and `preselected_only` is flagged true — consistent with a closely related Lansdale family foundation, the Max Delfiner Memorial Foundation, which states outright that it does not accept unsolicited funding requests. Grant seekers should treat this as an invitation-only funder driven by personal relationships and pre-existing trustee connections, not a competitive open-call program. The grantee roster reinforces this: of the 50 largest recipients in the database, more than a dozen have received support in 5 or 6 consecutive tracked years (Hadassah, American Jewish World Service, Loving Spoonfuls, Whisper Ranch Sanctuary, Ezra Uganda Assistance, Alex's Lemonade Stand, Canine Companions), indicating the foundation renews commitments to a stable, trusted circle rather than running an annual open competition. For organizations without an existing trustee relationship, the highest-leverage path is a warm introduction through a current grantee, a shared board member, or a Jewish communal, animal-welfare, or hunger-relief network the Stanley/Delfiner family is already connected to — not a cold mailed proposal. First-time applicants should also calibrate size: with 167 tracked grants averaging $38,510 and a typical range of $5,000-$122,180 (up to $169,335 in the most recent filing year), this is not a funder for large institutional asks; requests should be scoped as general-operating gifts in the low five to low six figures, matching the 'GENERAL PURPOSE' designation attached to every tracked grant in the record.

Across 167 tracked grants totaling $6,431,116, the average award is $38,510, and the foundation's own most recent Form 990-PF reports a typical grant size with a $27,500 median, $5,000 minimum, $122,180 maximum, and $35,547 average across 26 grants. A separate FY2025 filing summary (Instrumentl) shows 27 grants averaging $40.7K with a wider observed range of $500-$169,335, suggesting award size has crept upward in the most recent cycle. Every tracked grant carries the single purpose code 'GENERAL PURPOSE' — this funder does not appear to restrict gifts to specific programs or capital projects. Annual grants paid have grown substantially over the tracked history: $351,000 (2011), $396,500 (2015), $784,380 (2019), $924,220 (2020), $1,043,325 (2021), $1,228,768 (2022, the peak year), $957,710 (2023), and roughly $1.14M-$1.16M in 2024 and 2025 per web filings — more than tripling total giving over the past decade while total assets have grown more modestly, from $4.4M (2011) to $5.8M-$7.8M depending on filing year (asset figures fluctuate with market performance, e.g. a $796,108 net investment gain in 2020 alone). Geographically, giving concentrates in Massachusetts (36 grantees), New York (31), Pennsylvania (27), and California (26), with smaller clusters in Texas (10), Montana (8), Georgia (6), Maryland (6), DC (5), and Arizona (4) — a footprint that maps closely to the Stanley/Delfiner family's personal geography (Lansdale, PA home base; Boston-area and New York Jewish-communal ties; a San Diego, CA cluster of animal-welfare and food-security grantees). By cause, the largest concentration by dollar volume is Jewish communal and Israel-advocacy organizations (Hadassah $790,000, American Jewish World Service $685,138, CAMERA $168,000, Ezra Uganda Assistance $222,000, Montana Jewish Project $144,000, plus ADL, USHMM, Torah Relief Society, and Jewish Federation of San Diego), followed by animal welfare and equine rescue (Canine Companions $310,000, Whisper Ranch Sanctuary $281,500, Return to Freedom wild-horse sanctuary $275,500 combined, Rancho Coastal Humane Society $105,792, K9 For Warriors $100,000), hunger relief (Loving Spoonfuls $452,518, four regional food banks totaling over $292,000), and pediatric/medical health (Ronald McDonald House chapters totaling $578,544, Brigham and Women's Hospital $150,000, Alex's Lemonade Stand $80,100).

All five peer foundations sit within roughly $2,000 of each other in asset size ($5,835,247-$5,839,598) and share the same NTEE 'Philanthropy & Grantmaking' classification, but none maintain a public website — a pattern consistent with The@Gt Foundation's own profile of a closely held, family-trustee-run vehicle with no public-facing grants operation. This is a structural feature of this asset tier of family foundation, not something unique to this funder: seekers should expect the same relationship-first dynamics (no portal, no published cycle, board-driven selection) at most of these peers, and should not spend time searching for application pages that likely don't exist for any of them.

No dedicated press coverage, leadership announcements, or program launches were found for The@Gt Foundation — expected for a foundation with no public website or communications presence. The most current verifiable activity is financial: FY2025 filings (via Instrumentl's 990 report) show $170,512 in revenue against $1,143,609 in expenses, ending the year with $5,836,844 in net assets and $1,139,394 disbursed to charity (99.6% of expenses), across 27 grants. FY2024 shows $6,809,941 in assets and $1,156,342 paid out, per ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer. One notable change in the trustee roster: ProPublica's current listing includes Allon Bloch alongside the long-standing Stanley/Delfiner trustee group (Kenneth, Joan, and Nancy Stanley; Hannah, Ruth, and Michael Delfiner), suggesting a recent board addition not yet reflected in the foundation's own historical filings in the database. Contributions received have held steady at $480,000/year across most tracked years (2011-2022) before rising to $400,000-$485,000 more recently, indicating the family continues to actively fund the trust rather than draw it down. Beyond these filing-level data points, there is no evidence of new initiatives, geographic expansion, or a shift away from the foundation's historic cause areas — this remains a stable, low-visibility, high-continuity family giving vehicle.

Do not send an unsolicited proposal through a generic channel — this foundation has no online portal, no published LOI process, and no grants staff; the `application_instructions` field in its own IRS filing record is blank and `preselected_only` is marked true. The closely related Max Delfiner Memorial Foundation (same Lansdale, PA address, same family name) states explicitly that it does not accept unsolicited funding requests, and the same is almost certainly true here. The realistic path in is a warm introduction: identify whether your organization has any connection — staff, board member, donor, alumni tie — to the Stanley or Delfiner families, or to any of the foundation's 50+ tracked grantees (a shared board member or co-funder relationship with an organization like Hadassah, Loving Spoonfuls, Canine Companions, or a Ronald McDonald House chapter is a more productive lead than a cold letter). If a relationship exists, keep any request general-operating rather than project-restricted — every tracked grant in the record carries the single purpose code 'GENERAL PURPOSE,' meaning this funder writes flexible checks rather than funding discrete capital or program budgets. Calibrate the ask to $5,000-$122,180 (the observed typical range), with a $27,500-$40,700 median/average — first asks pitched above $150,000 will be outliers even for the largest recipients (Hadassah tops out at $790,000 but across 6 separate annual grants, not one gift). Mission fit matters more than geography, though a physical presence or program footprint in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, or California (83% of all tracked grantees) is a plus; strongest alignment is with Jewish communal/Israel-advocacy organizations, animal welfare and equine rescue groups, food banks, pediatric or veteran health services, and small community-development nonprofits. Since renewal is the dominant pattern (multiple grantees show 5-6 consecutive years of support), the better long-term strategy for an aligned organization without a current relationship is building visibility in the same philanthropic and Jewish-communal circles the trustees already fund in, rather than repeatedly requesting first contact. Common mistake to avoid: treating this like a standard foundation prospect with a grants webpage to research — none exists, and time spent hunting for one (including the misleading thegt.org domain in public aggregator listings) is better spent on relationship-building.