California · Private foundation
Gerson Bakar Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $169M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $96,520,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 71
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.5B
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 34% of the organizations Gerson Bakar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 30 | $164M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $247M | 34% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $317M | 23% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $244M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $175M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $90M | 31% |
| FY2018 | 59 | $171M | 49% |
| FY2017 | 71 | $19M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $540,895,100 | 8 | 17% |
| Bakar Bioenginuity Hub | $84,950,000 | 4 | 100% |
| The Trustees of the Smith College | $50,000,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Kqed Inc | $17,553,230 | 7 | 6% |
| San Francisco General Hospital Foundation | $15,015,000 | 5 | 30% |
| Naval War College Foundation Inc | $9,750,000 | 1 | 65% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $9,502,475 | 8 | 2% |
| California Academy of Sciences | $9,350,000 | 8 | 4% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $3,000,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Exploratorium | $2,350,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 126 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($677M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gerson Bakar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 111 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Koret Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · John Pritzker Family Fund · Barbara and Gerson Bakar Foundation Dba the Achieve Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Lisa Stone Pritzker Family Fund · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund
How this is measured
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About Gerson Bakar Foundation
- How much does Gerson Bakar Foundation give?
- Gerson Bakar Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $169,365,674 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 71 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Gerson Bakar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (47%), Health (44%), Religion (2%).
- Who are Gerson Bakar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of California San Francisco Foundation ($541M), Bakar Bioenginuity Hub ($85M), The Trustees of the Smith College ($50M).
- Does Gerson Bakar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gerson Bakar Foundation 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 Gerson Bakar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is Gerson Bakar Foundation based?
- Gerson Bakar Foundation is based in CA.
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