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The Gerson Minsk Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Gerson Minsk Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$310kPhilanthropy$165kReligion$123kInternational$93kYouth Development$25kEnvironment$7kHuman Services$7kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $94k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$827k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND$32,877
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENTS FUND$32,000
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$15,000
ATLANTA JEWISH ACADEMY$14,300
FRIENDS OF THE ARAVA INSTITUTE$6,800
CAMP STONE$5,400
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA GEORGIA$5,000
ATLANTA SCHOLARS KOLLEL$3,600
CONGREGATION O'HR HATORAH$1,800
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM$1,800
ML4 FOUNDATION$1,000
COMMUNITY RESOURCES OF SANDY SPRINGS ANASH$540
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND HILLEL$360
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $5k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $720 → 14%WEINSTEIN HOSPICE: $2k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$554k · 25 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
15

Total granted

$554k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+7%

Still filing today

32%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AJ
    ATLANTA JEWISH ACADEMY INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $226k · revenue +50%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $22k · revenue +3%
  • TD
    TORAH DAY SCHOOL OF ATLANTA
    2× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF EGOZ INC
    one grant, 2024 · $13k
  • MM
    MACOM MIKVAH ASSOCCIATION OF ATLANTA
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • ST
    STRUGGLE TO SAVE ETHIOPIAN JEWRYINCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +304%
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.

1
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
3
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Sherit Isroel
—
5
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
6
Jewish Life Foundation
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7
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
8
Tamim Academies
Philanthropy
9
The Bnai Jacob Foundation
—
10
Ccf New York Jewish French Community Center of Ny Inc

To further French Jewish Culture, help integration of American in France and French in USA concerning Jewish Culture

Religion
11
Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc
Youth Development
12
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Jewish Academy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rebecca's Tent Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 47 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $75,770 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND …JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $70,360 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANT…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $62,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM INC: $21,720 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM INC+2 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyATLANTA SCHOLARS KOLLEL INC: $38,600 · OtherATLANTA SCHOLARS KOLLEL INCCONGREGATION BETH JACOB: $37,640 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH JACOBCHARLES E SMITH DAY SCHOOL: $33,970 · OtherCHARLES E SMITH DAY SCHOOLCAMP STONE: $21,600 · OtherCAMP STONEB NAI ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $14,403 · OtherB NAI ISRAEL CONGREGATIONFRIENDS OF EGOZ INC: $13,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL ROCKVILLE: $11,463 · OtherNATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAEL: $11,381 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITEM: $10,720 · OtherMACOM MIKVAH ASSOCCIATION OF ATLANTA: $10,000 · Other+22 more: $43,270 · Other+22 moreATLANTA JEWISH ACADEMY INC: $225,747 · EducationATLANTA JEWISH ACADEMY INCTORAH DAY SCHOOL OF ATLANTA: $11,018 · Education+1 more: $540 · EducationCentral Fund of Israel: $15,000 · InternationalJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $5,720 · Human ServicesThe Vi and Milton Weinstein Hospice Inc: $1,800 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD: $6,800 · EnvironmentSOCIETY OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE: $3,500 · HealthThe William Breman Jewish Home Inc: $1,000 · Health
Philanthropy$239,850Other$246,047Education$237,305International$15,000Human Services$7,520Environment$6,800Health$4,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetATLANTA JEWISH ACADEMY INC: $225,747 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $75,770 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $70,360 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $62,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM INC: $21,720 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTORAH DAY SCHOOL OF ATLANTA: $11,018 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD: $6,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $5,720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTRUGGLE TO SAVE ETHIOPIAN JEWRYINC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIN THE CITY CAMP INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBIABARNARD HILLEL INC: $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Defiant Requiem Foundation: $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Vi and Milton Weinstein Hospice Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe William Breman Jewish Home Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN NEW ENGLAND INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREBECCA'S TENT INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ATLANTA JEWISH ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds TORAH DAY SCHOOL OF ATLANTA ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds STRUGGLE TO SAVE ETHIOPIAN JEWRYINC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds IN THE CITY CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIABARNARD HILLEL INC ↗
  • Who funds The Defiant Requiem Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Vi and Milton Weinstein Hospice Inc ↗
  • Who funds The William Breman Jewish Home 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.

Jewish Federation of …The Kerri & Jeffrey S…Horowitz Family Found…Henry and Etta Raye H…Luci and Stan Sunshin…The Marcus Foundation…Jewish Communal FundThe Joyce and Ramie T…Jewish Community Foun…Combined Jewish Phila…The Community Foundat…Jill & David Krischer…
Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta IncGA23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Kerri & Jeffrey Snow Family Private Foundation Inc · Horowitz Family Foundation Inc · Henry and Etta Raye Hirsch Heritage Foundation Inc · Luci and Stan Sunshine Family Foundation · The Marcus Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Joyce and Ramie Tritt Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Jill & David Krischer Family 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 Gerson Minsk Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gerson Minsk Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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