· Private foundation
The Gershwind 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 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $192k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $729k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATE VICE PROVOST | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY FORUM | $179,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $50,000 |
| NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LANGONE | $50,000 |
| NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE RIVERSIDE CHURCH IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $35,000 |
| BRANDEIS | $25,000 |
| BRANDEIS | $25,000 |
| UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $23,324 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $16,666 |
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 (FY17–24, $269k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 17 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $471k 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
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC7× · 2018–2024 · $527k · revenue +22%
- NHNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $450k · revenue +12%
- SJSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $188k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- CCCOHEN CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2021 · $50k
- HAHAMPTONS ARISTOCRAT FUNDRAISERone grant, 2023 · $15k
- JFJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +44%
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.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Milana Family Foundation Inc. 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 41 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) — 2% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 109 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPTONS INVITATIONAL CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GRENVILLE BAKER BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE POLLI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
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 Communal Fund · The Jacobson Family Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Gershwind Family Foundation · Robert and Jodi Rosenthal Family Found · The Jahn and Sabrina Levin Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Schapero Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Chernow Fund Inc · The Milana Family Foundation Inc · The Seltzer Hertzig Foundationinc · The Bahnik Foundation Inc
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 The Gershwind 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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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