· Private foundation
Gerson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| POLLY LABS | $5,000 |
| NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $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 |
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH | $2,500 |
| THE FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
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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.
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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…
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How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 66 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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gerson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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