Missouri · Private foundation
Gershman Foundation (Formerly Gershman Charitable Trust)
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.
- $445k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 48
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Gershman Foundation (Formerly Gershman Charitable Trust) funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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 | 42 | $405k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $334k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $296k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $291k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $374k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interfaith Residence D/B/A Doorways | $220,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Washington University | $151,000 | 5 | 0% |
| John Burroughs School | $110,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital | $92,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Central Reform Congregation | $85,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra | $51,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| National Council of Jewish Women St Louis Section | $41,600 | 4 | 1% |
| American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri | $37,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Cancer Support Community of Greater St Louis | $35,000 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($479k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gershman Foundation (Formerly Gershman Charitable Trust) 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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Centene Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Gershman Foundation (Formerly Gershman Charitable Trust) with peer funders
About Gershman Foundation (Formerly Gershman Charitable Trust)
- How much does Gershman Foundation (Formerly Gershman Charitable Trust) give?
- Gershman Foundation (Formerly Gershman Charitable Trust) reported 43 grants totaling $444,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 48 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Gershman Foundation (Formerly Gershman Charitable Trust) fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (22%), Philanthropy (20%), Education (18%).
- Who are Gershman Foundation (Formerly Gershman Charitable Trust)'s largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Interfaith Residence D/B/A Doorways ($220k), Washington University ($151k), John Burroughs School ($110k).
- Does Gershman Foundation (Formerly Gershman Charitable Trust) fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gershman Foundation (Formerly Gershman Charitable Trust) 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 Gershman Foundation (Formerly Gershman Charitable Trust)?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Centene Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation.
- Where is Gershman Foundation (Formerly Gershman Charitable Trust) based?
- Gershman Foundation (Formerly Gershman Charitable Trust) is based in MO.
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