· Private foundation
Gerson Family Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| FRIDAY NIGHT SHABBAT | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| BLACK SWAMP BIRD OBSERVATORY | $10,000 |
| FRIDAY NIGHT SHABBAT | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BLACK SWAMP CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION FO CINCINNATI | $6,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CINCINNATI | $6,000 |
| HILLEL JEWISH STUDENT CENTER | $6,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $5,000 |
| AFMDA | $5,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CAMERA | $5,000 |
| JNS | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Gerson Family Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 59% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
16 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CFCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC3× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +56%
- BSBLACK SWAMP CONSERVANCY2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +11%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM3× · 2022–2024 · $14k · revenue +190%
Funded once
- HUHEBREW UNION COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $10k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAVID ADOMone grant, 2021 · $10k
- CTCHAI TOTS SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
The purpose of Hillel is to be a center for enriching the lives of Jewish students in the Greater Cincinnati area and to strengthen Jewish identity through social and a broad range of programs and services in an atmosphere that is…
To unite all Jews in the spirit of the Torah, by various means, including, but not limited to disseminating information through publications, meetings, and seminars, and by cooperating with other charitable organizations to achieve these…
To further jewish historical education among youths
To provide assistance to organizations in the old city of jerusalem and the ancient city of david.
Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.
Jewish federation of st. louis mobilizes the jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel and around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Queen City Chamber Opera Dba Queen City Opera. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK SWAMP CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds BLACK SWAMP BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds Camp Livingston Inc ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati Inc ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera ↗
- Who funds ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Gerson Family Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.