· Private foundation
Lisa Beth Gerstman Foundation
Its FY2024 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 $10k8 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $198k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK | $130,000 |
| COMMONPOINT QUEENS | $26,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY'S | $18,000 |
| YMCA OF NEWARK AND VICINITY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| PAL-O-MINE EQUESTRIAN | $15,000 |
| CAMP HES AT CANARSIE | $15,000 |
| GATEWAY FAMILY YMCA | $15,000 |
| QUEENS CENTER FOR PROGRESS | $12,500 |
| EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE | $12,000 |
| YMCA OF WESTFIELD NEW JERSEY | $12,000 |
| METROPOLITAN YMCA OF THE ORANGES | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ST MARY'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| SHOREFRONT YM&YWHA OF BRIGHTON-MANHATTAN BEACH | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $936k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK3× · 2022–2024 · $340k · revenue +47%
- CNCOMMONPOINT NY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $194k · revenue +377%
- PEPAL-O-MINE EQUESTRIAN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $113k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- AUADELPHI UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +11%
- CQCENTRAL QUEENS Yone grant, 2021 · $27k
- JOJCC OF STATEN ISLAND HENRY KAUFMANN CAMPGROUNDSone grant, 2023 · $5k
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 friedberg jewish community center promotes jewish life and values by providing programs and services in a warm and caring environment for all people in every stage of life. we build a community one member at a time.
We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.
The center's mission is to help children and adults with differing abilities achieve their dreams by overcoming barriers to living, working, learning & enjoying recreational opportunities in the community of their choice.
The bender jcc embraces and welcomes the diversity of our community and encourages everyone to seek meaning and fulfillment by participating in our rich programming inspired by our jewish heritage. we open our doors to everyone, including…
To foster and ensure a vibrant greater Atlanta Jewish community by providing programs and services of distinction that attract, involve, and inspire meaningful connections and promote Jewish values.
The ymca provides programs and services that include but not limited to day camp, child-care, aquatics and health and wellness. the ymca helps individuals live life to their fullest potential in mind, body and spirit through programs and…
Through our proven care models, innovative programs, professional training, influential research and determined advocacy, andrus aims to be a national leader in shaping policies and practices that prevent and overcome the effect of…
The louis s. wolk jcc of greater rochester is deeply rooted in and committed to celebrating jewish traditions and values. we welcome the community at large to join together for exceptional events and activities that establish lifelong…
We provide services so that people with disabilities can live, learn, & work in our communities.
The young men's christian association of delaware county d/b/a the community ymca of eastern delaware county ("the community ymca or "the organization") was organized on december 14, 1948 under the laws of pennsylvania as a nonprofit…
Greater Somerset County YMCA is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) public charity dedicated to strengthening community by helping all individuals discover their potential, purpose, and connection to others. (Continued on Schedule O)
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is House of Artists Foundation Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 11% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 46 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds COMMONPOINT NY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEWARK & VICINITY ↗
- Who funds PAL-O-MINE EQUESTRIAN INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF BROOKLYN ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EASTERN UNION COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ADELPHI UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Helen Keller Services ↗
- Who funds SHOREFRONT YM-YWHA OF BRIGHTON- MANHATTAN BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VISCARDI CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FELIX ORGANIZATION - ADOPTEES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MID-ISLAND Y JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN ↗
- Who funds STUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK 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: Sunshine Foundation · Long Island Real Estate Group Inc · Je & Zb Butler Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Lisa Beth Gerstman Foundation 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.
- Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc — 2% 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.