· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Gerson Family Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 59%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- CTCHAI TOTS SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $10k
- HUHEBREW UNION COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $10k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAVID ADOMone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 41 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 Camp Livingston Inc ↗
- Who funds BLACK SWAMP BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- 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 ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gerson Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerson Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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