· Private foundation
Gerson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $44k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF KANSAS CITY | $60,500 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER KC | $31,000 |
| CHABAD OF KU | $12,500 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU | $7,500 |
| KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY | $7,500 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| POLLY LABS | $5,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM | $5,000 |
| NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $4,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $3,000 |
| TEMPLE B'NAI JEHUDAH | $2,700 |
| GREAT JOBS KANSAS CITY | $2,500 |
| THE FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM | $2,500 |
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- KCKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY8× · 2018–2025 · $71k · revenue +23%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES6× · 2020–2025 · $43k · revenue +21%
- TNTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEMS ENDOWMENTone grant, 2020 · $20k
- OMOLATHE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +192%
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.
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…
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…
The jewish women's archive documents jewish women's stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change.jwa is dedicated to expanding and transforming the historical narrative by restoring jewish women and gender…
Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 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. 39 of the 66 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 GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT JOBS KC INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The Commons Project Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds William Jewell College ↗
- Who funds HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
- Who funds KANBE'S MARKETS ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
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: Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Patricia Werthan Uhlmann Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Stanley J Bushman Supporting Foundation · Kathleen L and Michael J Rainen Family Foundation C/O Friend & Associates LLC · Saint Lukes Health System 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 Foundation 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.
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