Michigan · Private foundation
Gerson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $256k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Gerson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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 | 22 | $206k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $246k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $216k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $153k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $136k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $62k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $35k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $57k | 80% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Detroit Institute of Arts | $270,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc | $116,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Cranbrook Educational Community | $90,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Washington Institute for Near East Policy | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Holocaust Memorial Center Inc | $41,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Beaumont Health Foundation | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Yale University | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Detroit Opera | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($251k), 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: Ford Philanthropy · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Karp Family Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein Foundation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · The Gregg and Harriet Orley Family Foundation · The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation · Grosfeld Foundation
How this is measured
About Gerson Family Foundation
- How much does Gerson Family Foundation give?
- Gerson Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $255,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gerson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Philanthropy (27%), Education (12%).
- Who are Gerson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Detroit Institute of Arts ($271k), Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc ($117k), Cranbrook Educational Community ($90k).
- Does Gerson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gerson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gerson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ford Philanthropy, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation.
- Where is Gerson Family Foundation based?
- Gerson Family Foundation is based in MI.
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