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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.

$366k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2024
21
Organizations funded FY2023
5%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$12,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$130,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 27
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations Lisa Beth Gerstman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving23$366k4%
FY202321$341k5%
FY202223$258k39%
FY202127$332k7%
FY202013$120k23%
FY201927$345k11%
FY201826$307k15%
FY201723$260kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$927kRecreation & Sports$750kYouth Development$273kHealth$160kEducation$147kCivil Rights$20kArts & Culture$11kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lisa Beth Gerstman Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater New York: $340,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCommonpoint Ny Inc: $194,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Newark & Vicinity: $128,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPal-O-Mine Equestrian Inc: $112,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetMetropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc: $82,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Educational Alliance Inc: $64,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Speaks Inc: $47,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Educational Society of Brooklyn: $43,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Eastern Union County: $41,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAdelphi University: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelen Keller Services: $31,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetShorefront Ym-Ywha of Brighton- Manhattan Beach Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSunrise Day Camps Association Inc: $23,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFelix Organization - Adoptees for Children Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetMid-Island y Jewish Community Center In: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDancing Dreams: $8,200 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetHouse of Artists Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetPop Earth Corporation: $1,900 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Family Center for Achievement Co Life's Worc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Sunshine FoundationNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Lisa Beth Gerstman Foundation

How much does Lisa Beth Gerstman Foundation give?
Lisa Beth Gerstman Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $366,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Lisa Beth Gerstman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (40%), Recreation & Sports (32%), Youth Development (12%).
Who are Lisa Beth Gerstman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York ($340k), Commonpoint Ny Inc ($194k), Young Men's Christian Association of Newark & Vicinity ($128k).
Does Lisa Beth Gerstman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lisa Beth Gerstman 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 Lisa Beth Gerstman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sunshine Foundation, Long Island Real Estate Group Inc, Je & Zb Butler Foundation Inc.
Where is Lisa Beth Gerstman Foundation based?
Lisa Beth Gerstman Foundation is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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