· Private foundation
The Gerson Family Foundation Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k16 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL | $100,000 |
| HADASSAH | $15,000 |
| SOUTH COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER | $11,000 |
| WASHINGTON INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| THE LORD'S PLACE | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE PALM BEACHES | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATON | $5,000 |
| VITA NOVA INC | $5,000 |
| BELLA'S ANGELS INC | $2,500 |
| CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATON | $2,500 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $1,000 |
| PEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESCUE | $1,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $1,000 |
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, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 11 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSOUTH COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC3× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +12%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2018–2024 · $8k · revenue +89%- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC4× · 2017–2023 · $6k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- JFJewish Federation of Palm Beach Couone grant, 2022 · $10k
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF NORTHCENTRAL PBone grant, 2017 · $5k
- TOTown of Palm Beach United Way Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +54%
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
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.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
How this is measured
45 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. 45 of the 80 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 SOUTH COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Vita Nova Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE PALM BEACHES INC ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BELLA'S ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · Quantum Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · W and H Thomas Charitable Trust · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gerson Family Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gerson Family Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Vita Nova Inc: 42% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Center for Creative Education: 2% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc: 1% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
- Spca Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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