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Gendler Family Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$41k
Granted FY2020
24
Grants FY2020
23
Organizations funded FY2020
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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.

Median grant, FY2020
$200
Largest grant, FY2020
$28,072
States reached, FY2020
6
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gendler Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAll Faiths Food Bank Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAsolo Theatre Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Studio Theatre Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestcoast Black Theatre Troupe of Florida Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBerkshire Theatre Group Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShakespeare & Company Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBarrington Stage Company Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHome Works - Thvp: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida West Coast Public Broadcasting Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Amy Adina Schulman Memorial Fund Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBerkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $70 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBerkshire Opera Festival Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Orion Society Inc: $36 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Gendler Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gendler Family Foundation 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.

About Gendler Family Foundation

How much does Gendler Family Foundation give?
Gendler Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $41,432 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Gendler Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (68%), Religion (18%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are Gendler Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: All Faiths Food Bank Inc ($1k), Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc ($750), Asolo Theatre Inc ($250).
Does Gendler Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gendler Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc, The John & Katherine Morris Foundation, Messinger Family Foundation Inc.
Where is Gendler Family Foundation based?
Gendler Family Foundation is based in MA.

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 24 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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