· Private foundation
The Gerber Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k180 grants · $481k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $550k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati) | $172,000 |
| Ann & Robert Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | $164,990 |
| University of Texas Health Science Ctr at Houston | $125,000 |
| University of Florida | $125,000 |
| Boston Medical Center | $125,000 |
| Children's Mercy Hospitals | $124,181 |
| Memorial - Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | $120,000 |
| Duke University Medical Center | $119,999 |
| Purdue Univeristy/Foundation | $112,113 |
| Boston Children's Hospital | $105,885 |
| Leland Stanford Junior University | $101,000 |
| University of Michigan Medical School | $100,676 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | $100,000 |
| University of Vermont & State Agricultural College | $97,573 |
| Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | $92,495 |
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.
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…
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…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live sucessfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. as a highly selective, nationally renowened…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
The mission of calvin university is to equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world.
Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madonna University and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
95 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 95 of the 204 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY 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: Fremont Area Community Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Frey Foundation · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Cdv5 Foundation · Barnabas Foundation
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.