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Natalie & Jonathan Gerber Family 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.

$708k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
21
Organizations funded FY2023
52%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$11,209
Largest grant, FY2024
$364,181
Organizations funded a year
14 to 21
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$372k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 52% of the organizations Natalie & Jonathan Gerber Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
ReligionHealthEducationInternationalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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 arriving11$707k27%
FY202321$564k52%
FY202221$330k62%
FY202114$126kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$1.4MPhilanthropy$199kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kHealth$17kInternational$11kFood & Nutrition$8kEducation$4kHuman Services$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
CA
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bnei Akiva of Los Angeles$1,169,809415%
Beth Jacob Congregation$19,8374n/a
Chai Lifeline Inc$16,29130%
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc$13,25030%
National Council of Young Israel$7,6463n/a
Kiryat Shemona Foundation Inc$5,00012%
Eiden Inc$5,0001n/a
Yula High School$3,70010%
Yad Ezra V'Shulamit$3,60010%
Food on Foot$3,07430%
Show all 22 grantees
All grantees of Natalie & Jonathan Gerber Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bnei Akiva of Los Angeles$1,169,809415%
Beth Jacob Congregation$19,8374n/a
Chai Lifeline Inc$16,29130%
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc$13,25030%
National Council of Young Israel$7,6463n/a
Kiryat Shemona Foundation Inc$5,00012%
Eiden Inc$5,0001n/a
Yula High School$3,70010%
Yad Ezra V'Shulamit$3,60010%
Food on Foot$3,07430%
American Friends of Eretz Hemdah$2,80020%
Jewish Free Loan Association$2,50010%
The Torah and Nature Foundation$2,00010%
Foundation for Jewish Camp Inc$1,80010%
Efrat Development Foundation USA Inc$1,00010%
Touch of Kindness Inc$1,00010%
Young Israel of North Beverly Hills$1,0001n/a
Our Big Kitchen Los Angeles$80010%
Tzedek America$50010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$18010%
Celiac Disease Foundation$18010%
Shalhevet High School$1501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($466k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Natalie & Jonathan Gerber Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBnei Akiva of Los Angeles: $1,169,809 over 4y, 15% of budgetChai Lifeline Inc: $16,291 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc: $13,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKiryat Shemona Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetYula High School: $3,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYad Ezra V'Shulamit: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFood on Foot: $3,074 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Eretz Hemdah: $2,800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Free Loan Association: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Torah and Nature Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFoundation for Jewish Camp Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEfrat Development Foundation USA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTouch of Kindness Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOur Big Kitchen Los Angeles: $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTzedek America: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCeliac Disease Foundation: $180 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 17.

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.

Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA28.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Davmarn Foundation · Jack and Gitta Nagel Foundation · The Elishis Family Foundation · Ryzman Foundation Inc · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Natalie & Jonathan Gerber Family Foundation

How much does Natalie & Jonathan Gerber Family Foundation give?
Natalie & Jonathan Gerber Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $707,732 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 21 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Natalie & Jonathan Gerber Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (81%), Philanthropy (11%), Public Safety & Disaster (1%).
Who are Natalie & Jonathan Gerber Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Bnei Akiva of Los Angeles ($1.2M), Beth Jacob Congregation ($20k), Chai Lifeline Inc ($16k).
Does Natalie & Jonathan Gerber Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Natalie & Jonathan Gerber Family 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 Natalie & Jonathan Gerber Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.
Where is Natalie & Jonathan Gerber Family Foundation based?
Natalie & Jonathan Gerber Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 42 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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