· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CAMP HES AT CANARSIE | $15,000 |
| PAL-O-MINE EQUESTRIAN | $15,000 |
| YMCA OF NEWARK AND VICINITY | $15,000 |
| GATEWAY FAMILY YMCA | $15,000 |
| QUEENS CENTER FOR PROGRESS | $12,500 |
| YMCA OF WESTFIELD NEW JERSEY | $12,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE | $12,000 |
| METROPOLITAN YMCA OF THE ORANGES | $12,000 |
| ST MARY'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| SHOREFRONT YM&YWHA OF BRIGHTON-MANHATTAN BEACH | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lisa Beth Gerstman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lisa Beth Gerstman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc: 2% of income from government
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