· Private foundation
Obren B & Marilyn M Gerich 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, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST TIKHONS ORTHODOX SEMINARY | $25,000 |
| LIFT UP UGANDA | $19,480 |
| ST STEVENS SERBIAN ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL | $13,600 |
| ST PAISIUS WOMENS MONASTERY | $11,000 |
| FOCUS North America | $11,000 |
| ST VLADIMIRS SEMINARY | $6,000 |
| Chi Omega Foundation | $1,500 |
| Trinity Lutheran Church | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $1,000 |
| Tunnel to Towers | $660 |
| Special Olympics Southern California | $500 |
| International Orthodox Christian Charities | $500 |
| THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $500 |
| FOOD SHARE INC | $500 |
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 (FY19–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 2 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FNFOCUS NORTH AMERICA6× · 2019–2024 · $36k · revenue +167%
- CMClaremont McKenna College4× · 2019–2023 · $14k · revenue +44%
CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2024 · $8k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- NONativity of the Most Holy Theotokosone grant, 2023 · $50k
- HRHOLY RESURRECTION ORTHODOX CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $10k
- SSST SEBASTIAN SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 86 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 FOCUS NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LIFT UP UGANDA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Claremont McKenna College ↗
- Who funds CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ST SAVA MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Five Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Obren B & Marilyn M Gerich Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Obren B & Marilyn M Gerich Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc: 7% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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