Does The Estelle Friedman Gervis Charitable Foundation Inc 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 The Estelle Friedman Gervis Charitable Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Greater Good Charities, Shell USA Company Foundation.

The Estelle Friedman Gervis Charitable Foundation Inc

The Estelle Friedman Gervis Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Estelle Friedman Gervis Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$86k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$85k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$318kHealth$179kEducation$162kInternational$60kAnimals$34kPhilanthropy$25kReligion$22kHousing & Shelter$9kOther$0

02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $220
$50k–250k1 grant · $85k

$184

Median grant

States reached

$4.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DEAF CHILDREN FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES (DCFC)	$85,301
CAITLYN FUND VIA GOFUNDME	$184
HUMANE SOCIETY OF LOUISIANA	$36

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 28% of grant dollars ($233k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 72% that went abroad ($592k) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

Beyond the US: 72% of all-years giving ($592k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

Central African Republic$432k · 5 grants

Uganda$160k · 2 grants

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 42% of The Estelle Friedman Gervis Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Estelle Friedman Gervis Charitable Foundation Inclessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 73% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$766k · 19 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$766k

$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%

+5%

Still filing today

53%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalAnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEducationOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

TI
THE INNER PUP
4× · 2018–2021 · $27k · revenue ×13
GP
Gabriel Project Inc
3× · 2018–2020 · $17k · revenue +87%
DR
DISABILITY RIGHTS FUND INC
3× · 2018–2020 · $16k · revenue +152%

Funded once

MO
MUSUEM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE
one grant, 2021 · $18k
AI
AUDUBON INSTITUTE
one grant, 2018 · $5k
SU
SMUG USA INC
one grant, 2022 · $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.

04Its field

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.

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

Global Animal Partnership

Animals

HDIInc

HDI`s mission is to advance world public health and human dignity, especially the health and socioeconomic situation of under-served populations which more others are significantly constrained by preventable, degrading disease.

International

Water for Good

Water for good's mission is to transform lives through sustainable access to safe water as well as improved sanitation and hygiene in the places that need it most.

International

International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International

International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International

Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International

Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment

Intrahealth International Inc

Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.

Health

Splash International

The mission of Splash International and its subsidiaries is to ensure clean water for children. Splash partners with governments and local organizations to deliver sustainable water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health programs in…

Environment

Mali Health Organizing Project Inc

Mali Health improves maternal and child health by supporting women, communities, and the community health system to develop local solutions that ensure every mother and child has access to quality primary care. We aim to end preventable…

Community Improvement

Handicap International

Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Disability Rights Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Maple Microdevelopment. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 49 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/25

Grantees still filing

18/25

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$712,714International$42,461Animals$29,136Human Services$19,000Philanthropy$18,912Health$1,864Education$1,000

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.

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.

The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Greater Good Charities · Shell USA Company Foundation · Network for Good · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Estelle Friedman Gervis Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Estelle Friedman Gervis Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home