New York · Private foundation
Gerson Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $898k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 75
- Grants FY2025
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 74
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Gerson Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 71 | $813k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 64 | $736k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 74 | $691k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 74 | $674k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 62 | $557k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $613k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra | $493,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | $310,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Arbor Brothers Inc Dba Arbor Rising | $250,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion | $190,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Agawam Council | $175,000 | 6 | 4% |
| The Trustees of the Smith College | $161,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $151,900 | 6 | 0% |
| Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Bowdoin College | $125,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Citizens Committee for Children of New York Inc | $100,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 95 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($808k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gerson Family Foundation Inc 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Tina & Steven Price Charitable Foundation · The Russell Berrie Foundation · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc
How this is measured
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About Gerson Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Gerson Family Foundation Inc give?
- Gerson Family Foundation Inc reported 75 grants totaling $897,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 74 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Gerson Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), International (20%), Civil Rights (16%).
- Who are Gerson Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra ($493k), The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc ($310k), Arbor Brothers Inc Dba Arbor Rising ($250k).
- Does Gerson Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gerson Family Foundation Inc 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 Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Fjc, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Gerson Family Foundation Inc based?
- Gerson Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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