New York · Private foundation
Gero 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.
- $83k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 41
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $231k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Gero Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $83k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $35k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $72k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $79k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $74k | 66% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $51k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $58,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $42,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $12,900 | 5 | 0% |
| Turning Point USA Inc | $11,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Breath-Body-Mind Foundation Inc | $6,800 | 4 | 1% |
| Planting Fields Foundation | $6,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $5,700 | 3 | 0% |
| The Mount Sinai Hospital | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $3,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($196k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gero Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · John P & Kathryn G Evans Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Gero Foundation Inc
- How much does Gero Foundation Inc give?
- Gero Foundation Inc reported 25 grants totaling $82,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 41 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Gero Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (18%), International (18%), Health (4%).
- Who are Gero Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Friends of the Israel Defense Forces ($58k), Judicial Watch Inc ($43k), Birthright Israel Foundation ($13k).
- Does Gero Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gero Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gero Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, John P & Kathryn G Evans Foundation, Farrell Family Foundation.
- Where is Gero Foundation Inc based?
- Gero Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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