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Judith Gerson Charitable Tr Ima
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METRO HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| ACLU OF OHIO FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $5,500 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $5,000 |
| PRETERM CLEVELAND INC | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD - CLEVELAND | $5,000 |
| BENNINGTON COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| IDEASTREAM PUBLIC MEDIA | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,000 |
| CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART | $2,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND | $2,500 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND | $2,500 |
| FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF GREATER | $2,000 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TMTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +103%
- NYNEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $36k · revenue +11%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC7× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- SMSTELLA MARIS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +35%
- AAALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $500
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.
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
Credit union provides lending, savings and other financial services to its qualifying members at terms generally better than available in the marketplace and with a service-based emphasis that recognizes the members status as owners
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To provide lending, savings, and other financial services to its members at terms generally better than available in the marketplace and with a service-based emphasis that recognizes the members' status as owners.
We, mount carmel and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mount carmel college of nursing is a member of mount carmel and trinity health.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Cleveland Community Shares and the most unlike its peers is Cambodian Arts & Scholarship Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 55 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 33 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 THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PRETERM CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds APPLEWOOD CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORKS DANCE THEATER ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND COMMUNITY SHARES ↗
- Who funds Circle Health Services ↗
- Who funds AIDS TASKFORCE OF GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION OF OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds Cambodian Arts & Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds STELLA MARIS INC ↗
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: The George Gund Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Judith Gerson Charitable Tr Ima 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.
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
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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