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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 FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$97M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$684MHealth$644MReligion$31MHuman Services$29MScience & Tech$20MArts & Culture$19MFood & Nutrition$10MInternational$3.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+12 grants · $169M
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCSF FOUNDATION$96,520,000
UCB FOUNDATION$37,043,334
SMITH COLLEGE$10,000,000
ADDISON LABS FOUNDATION$7,841,000
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES$5,554,000
SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000,000
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$2,500,000
BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION$2,000,000
SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK$1,000,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC$1,000,000
EXPLORATORIUM$300,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO$250,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO$200,000
EPA CENTER$25,000
SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $29.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LOVE HEALS FREE CLINICS INC: $500 → 8%EAST BAY INTEGRATED CARE INC: $2k → 9%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $250k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $250k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%PENINSULA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $12k → 7%PENINSULA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 7%PENINSULA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 7%J-SEI: $250 → 10%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 10%J-SEI: $250 → 10%J-SEI-INC: $250 → 10%J-SEI-INC: $250 → 10%J-SEI-INC: $250 → 10%SF FIREFIGHTERS TOY PROGRAM: $250 → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $10.3M → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $6.8M → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $5.6M → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3.0M → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1.0M → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1.0M → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1.0M → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
RI
CA
UT
VA
DE
NM
KS
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2B · 74 repeat orgs$199M to everyone else

74 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
88

Total granted

$1.2B
$197M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+50%

Still filing today

82%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50M · revenue +35%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · $15M · revenue +54% · 30% of their budget
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $9.5M · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (THE UC REGENTS)
    one grant, 2018 · $103M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKLEY
    one grant, 2021 · $59M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $12M
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
3
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
4
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
5
California Institute for BioMedical Research

Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…

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6
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
7
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
8
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
9
Ucsf Health Medical Foundation

See schedule othe mission of ucsf health medical foundation is threefold: 1) to establish, operate and maintain medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services in california; 2) to promote health by providing, coordinating,…

Health
10
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
11
Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Health
12
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is Bakar Bioenginuity Hub. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

123 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 123 of the 175 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
121/123
Grantees still filing
87/123
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UCB FOUNDATION: $360,918,603 · OtherUCB FOUNDATIONTHE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (THE UC REGENTS): $103,446,450 · OtherTHE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (THE UC REGENTS)UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $89,631,041 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONBAKAR BIOENGINUITY HUB: $84,950,000 · OtherBAKAR BIOENGINUITY HUBUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKLEY: $59,022,760 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKLEYFOUNDATION FOR U C BERKELEY HILLEL INC: $28,960,750 · Other+96 more: $48,697,844 · Other+96 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $540,895,100 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDAT…THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $50,000,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE+18 more: $10,116,200 · EducationKQED INC: $17,553,230 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $9,350,000 · Arts & CultureTHE EXPLORATORIUM: $2,350,000 · Arts & Culture+17 more: $1,050,949 · Arts & CultureJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $28,686,350 · Human Services+8 more: $537,700 · Human ServicesSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15,015,000 · Health+11 more: $528,770 · HealthThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $3,000,000 · International+5 more: $66,600 · InternationalJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $1,410,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $80,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $52,300 · Philanthropy
Other$775,627,448Education$601,011,300Arts & Culture$30,304,179Human Services$29,224,050Health$15,543,770International$3,066,600Philanthropy$1,542,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $540,895,100 over 8y, 17% of budgetBAKAR BIOENGINUITY HUB: $84,950,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $50,000,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $28,686,350 over 7y, 20% of budgetKQED INC: $17,553,230 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15,015,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetNAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $9,750,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $9,502,475 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $9,350,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $3,000,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EXPLORATORIUM: $2,350,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetBERKELEY HILLEL: $1,800,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetTHE JEWISH HOME AND SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION: $1,510,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $1,410,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $600,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $502,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPartnership for Haas Preeminence: $500,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $500,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThat Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation: $375,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $250,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLEADING EDGE ALLIANCEINC: $105,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100,425 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $80,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEPACENTER: $55,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSan Francisco Playhouse: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJewish Commmunity High School of the Bay: $50,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $49,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPENINSULA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE HOUSING CORPORATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCalMatters: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEINBERG INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN INCORPORATED: $16,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTANFORD HEALTH CARE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOakland Hebrew Day School: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHERN NV SOUND AND COMMUNICATION APPRENTICESHIP TRNG TR FD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BAKAR BIOENGINUITY HUB ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds KQED INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE EXPLORATORIUM ↗
  • Who funds BERKELEY HILLEL ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH HOME AND SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Partnership for Haas Preeminence ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds That Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
  • Who funds LEADING EDGE ALLIANCEINC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds EPACENTER ↗
  • Who funds San Francisco Playhouse ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Commmunity High School of the Bay ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Jewish Community Fede…The San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…Koret FoundationEast Bay Community Fo…John Pritzker Family …Barbara and Gerson Ba…The William & Flora H…Silicon Valley Commun…Gordon E and Betty I …Lisa Stone Pritzker F…Lisa & Douglas Goldma…
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA44.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gerson Bakar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerson Bakar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Gerson Bakar 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.

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 175 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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