· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
62 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. 62 of the 109 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 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 GRENVILLE BAKER BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gershwind Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gershwind Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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