· Private foundation
Gendler Family Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
68% of Gendler Family Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 19 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k23 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND | $28,072 |
| ADAMAH | $3,354 |
| EISNER CAMP INSTITUTE | $2,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC RADIO | $1,320 |
| ALL FAITH FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| SARASOTA BALLET | $750 |
| WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE | $250 |
| FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE | $250 |
| ASOLO REPERTORY THEATRE | $250 |
| MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $250 |
| SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY | $200 |
| BERKSHIRE THEATRE FESTIVAL | $200 |
| BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY | $200 |
| HOME WORKS | $180 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of your 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.
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.
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.
Studio Theatre produces exceptional contemporary theatre in deliberately intimate spaces, fostering a more thoughtful, more empathetic, and more connected community, in Washington DC and beyond.
To create, to present, to preserve, and to extend the great repertoire of classical dancing through exciting performances and educational programming of the highest quality, presented to the widest possible audience. american ballet…
We bring vibrant professional theatre and dramatic education beyond the boundaries of boston, featuring world and regional premieres alongside fresh interpretations of familiar work. within this setting,we uniquely foster future artists…
Artists repertory theatre's mission is to produce intimate, provacative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks.
Marin theatre company is the bay area's premier mid-size theater and the leading professional theater in the north bay. mtc produces a six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in an…
Speakeasy produces intimate, entertaining plays and musicals that are new to boston and compel thoughtful conversation. we champion new talent and future arts leaders, alongside a diverse community of experienced local theatre…
Oregon ballet theatre is committed to sharing our passion for the expressive power of ballet, inspiring an enduring appreciation of dance, and connecting in meaningful ways to our community through excellence in performance, training, and…
Aquila theatre's mission is to create bold reinterpretations of the classics for contemporary audiences. by expanding the canon and diversifying the classics, aquila dares to expand our collective perspectives. aquila theatre is one of the…
Peninsula players theatre is committed to preserving america's oldest professional resident summer theatre in its unique setting on sixteen forested acres along the shores of green bay. the theater's mission is to support, without…
Worcester center for performing arts promotes and/or hosts more than 250 performances and welcomes more than 150,000 attendees each year. the hanover theatre conservatory reaches more than 700 students in theatre, technical theatre and…
The Directors Company is an award-winning not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals initiated and generated by outstanding directorial talent,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shakespeare & Company Inc and the most unlike its peers is All Faiths Food Bank Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 24 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 JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds HOME WORKS - THVP ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE GARDEN CENTER INC DBA BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMY ADINA SCHULMAN MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE OPERA FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ORION SOCIETY 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: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The John & Katherine Morris Foundation · Messinger Family Foundation Inc · The Buchwald Family Foundation · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Gendler Family Foundation 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.
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Orion Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Shakespeare & Company Inc — 1% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Theatre Group Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre 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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