· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $260k
- $250k+1 grant · $364k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| B'NEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES | $364,181 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS AN | $160,000 |
| WEST COAST TORAH RETREAT CAMP | $100,359 |
| MISC 501C CHARITIES | $31,513 |
| Individual grant recipient | $21,621 |
| DAVID OVED RETREAT CENTER | $11,209 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,650 |
| YOUNG ISRAEL OF CENTURY CITY | $6,582 |
| BETH JACOB CONGREGATION | $1,891 |
| FOOD ON FOOT | $1,176 |
| OUR BIG KITCHEN LOS ANGELES | $800 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $750 |
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, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 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; $20k 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
- BABNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES4× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +51%
- CLCHAI LIFELINE INC3× · 2021–2023 · $16k · revenue +1%
- FOFOOD ON FOOT3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- PSPICO SHUL-UKRAINIAN RELIEF VOLUNTEEone grant, 2022 · $25k
- AEAFRICA EXCHANGE FBO THE MAA TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $10k
- EIEIDEN INCone grant, 2022 · $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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc and the most unlike its peers is Yula High School. 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 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 42 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 BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds KIRYAT SHEMONA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YULA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YAD EZRA V'SHULAMIT ↗
- Who funds FOOD ON FOOT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDAH ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE TORAH AND NATURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds EFRAT DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
- Who funds TOUCH OF KINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds OUR BIG KITCHEN LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds TZEDEK AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Natalie & Jonathan Gerber Family 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.
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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