Kansas · Private foundation
Gerson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $167k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Gerson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $132k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $122k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $130k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $83k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $126k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $63k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $60k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $57k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Symphony | $70,503 | 8 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Services | $42,604 | 6 | 0% |
| The Nelson Gallery Foundation | $29,382 | 7 | 0% |
| Temple Bnai Jehudah | $24,168 | 8 | n/a |
| Congregation Rodef Shalom | $18,151 | 8 | n/a |
| Great Jobs Kc Inc | $17,429 | 5 | 0% |
| New Reform Temple | $16,333 | 8 | n/a |
| Jewish Community Relations Bureau Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts | $8,050 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($456k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gerson Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About Gerson Family Foundation
- How much does Gerson Family Foundation give?
- Gerson Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $167,414 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gerson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (56%), Arts & Culture (10%), Religion (9%).
- Who are Gerson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Kansas City Symphony ($71k), Jewish Family Services ($43k), The Nelson Gallery Foundation ($29k).
- Does Gerson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gerson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gerson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund.
- Where is Gerson Family Foundation based?
- Gerson Family Foundation is based in KS.
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