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The Gerstner Family 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.

$12M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$13MHuman Services$7.1MHousing & Shelter$5.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$4.4MEnvironment$4.0MHealth$3.6MArts & Culture$2.6MCrime & Legal$2.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $101k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+18 grants · $11M
$221,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$158M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$1,756,000
WINDWARD FUND$1,750,000
TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INCORPORATED$1,006,819
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$1,000,000
ACTIVATE GLOBAL INC$609,052
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$493,271
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$479,836
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC$465,000
FAMILYAID BOSTON INC$438,000
DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH$414,000
SAFE HORIZON INC$395,000
PART OF THE SOLUTION INC$365,000
METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY$355,000
ADOPT-A-FAMILY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC$337,000
LEGAL SERVICES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY$328,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $5.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $350k → 17%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%BRONXWORKS INC: $75k → 28%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%BRONXWORKS: $25k → 28%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $200k → 8%BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $150k → 17%BRONXWORKS: $200 → 28%SHOREFRONT YM-YWHA OF BRIGHTON- MANHATTAN BEACH INC: $10k → 8%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $200k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC: $210k → 11%METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $150k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC: $198k → 11%SAFE HORIZON INC: $395k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC: $50k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC: $28k → 11%SAFE HORIZON INC: $335k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC: $20k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC: $2k → 11%SAFE HORIZON INC: $350k → 16%SAFE HORIZON INC: $275k → 17%SAFE HORIZON INC: $250k → 17%SAFE HORIZON INC: $100 → 17%AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE INC: $100k → 11%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $300k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $600 → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $100k → 17%THE JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $100k → 17%THE JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $200 → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $100 → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $310k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $150k → 17%PROJECT HOPE BOSTON LITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASUMPTION FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES: $50k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $110k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $110k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $100 → 17%THE JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $125k → 17%METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $355k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
NC
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$31M · 47 repeat orgs$6.5M to everyone else

47 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
41

Total granted

$31M
$5.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+49%

Still filing today

77%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther

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

  • AM
    American Museum of Natural History
    3× · 2019–2021 · $2.6M · revenue +13%
  • COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +32%
  • FB
    FAMILYAID BOSTON INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +249%

Funded once

  • US
    UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • SE
    SETON EDUCATION PARTNERSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue +163%
  • TB
    THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -43%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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10
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University Settlement Society of New York and the most unlike its peers is The Havens Relief Fund Society. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Senior Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyCancer Support ServicesYmca Youth DevelopmentCommunity FoundationsSchool Parent OrganizationsMilitary Veterans SupportCommunity College Foundatio…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Domestic Violence ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%8%20–35yr13%41%35–55yr16%35%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/80
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,680

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.

04the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 110 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/78
Grantees still filing
56/78
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE — $2,956,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGEDARTMOUTH COLLEGE — $2,400,000 · OtherDARTMOUTH COLLEGECOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $1,905,200 · OtherCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INCFAMILYAID BOSTON INC — $1,758,767 · OtherFAMILYAID BOSTON INCAdopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc — $1,437,763 · OtherAdopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches IncMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — $1,136,215 · OtherTHE HAVENS RELIEF FUND SOCIETY — $1,125,100 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE — $1,000,000 · OtherTHE BRIDGE FUND OF NY INC — $850,200 · OtherDIOCESE OF PALM BEACH — $810,000 · OtherLEGAL SERVICES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY — $728,200 · Other+47 more — $5,518,580 · Other+47 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $5,225,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUM…Massachusetts Institute of Technology — $1,294,943 · EducationMassachusetts Institu…Trustees of Dartmouth College — $1,200,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth…Cornell University — $1,020,163 · EducationCornell UniversityCRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL — $330,000 · Education+12 more — $616,097 · Education+12 moreSAFE HORIZON INC — $1,605,100 · Human ServicesSAFE HORIZON IN…SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC — $1,280,200 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY FOR F…GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES — $880,100 · Human ServicesGOOD SHEPHERD S…AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE INC — $603,436 · Human ServicesAID TO VICTIMS …CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC — $527,125 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARIT…METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY — $505,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN NE…THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC — $500,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE FUND…THE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC — $300,600 · Human Services+7 more — $635,500 · Human Services+7 moreWINDWARD FUND — $3,500,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD F…ACTIVATE GLOBAL INC — $609,052 · EnvironmentACTIVATE G…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $289,906 · EnvironmentENVIRONMEN…+3 more — $203,500 · EnvironmentAmerican Museum of Natural History — $2,555,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC — $1,320,069 · Food & NutritionPART OF THE SOLUTION — $1,025,200 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $80,000 · Food & NutritionVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $1,085,054 · PhilanthropySETON EDUCATION PARTNERS — $750,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $300,000 · PhilanthropyWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $102,500 · Philanthropy
Other$21,626,025Education$9,686,203Human Services$6,837,061Environment$4,602,458Arts & Culture$2,605,000Food & Nutrition$2,425,269Philanthropy$2,347,554

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $5,225,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWINDWARD FUND — $3,500,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $2,555,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $1,905,200 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC — $1,758,767 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetSAFE HORIZON INC — $1,605,100 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAdopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc — $1,437,763 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetTREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC — $1,320,069 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $1,294,943 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC — $1,280,200 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $1,200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HAVENS RELIEF FUND SOCIETY — $1,125,100 over 4y, 17% of budgetPART OF THE SOLUTION — $1,025,200 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetCornell University — $1,020,163 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES — $880,100 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSETON EDUCATION PARTNERS — $750,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY — $728,200 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetACTIVATE GLOBAL INC — $609,052 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE INC — $603,436 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION — $538,682 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC — $527,125 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY — $505,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC — $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC — $500,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetCRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL — $330,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCRISTO REY BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL — $330,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetHomeStart Inc — $321,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC — $300,600 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $289,906 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA OF PALM BEACH COUNTY — $208,495 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES NYC — $200,200 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $200,154 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $200,100 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $175,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC — $165,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN MANHATTAN IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION — $150,100 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMake the Road New York — $140,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK — $105,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBRONXWORKS INC — $100,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc — $96,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $84,434 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC — $69,200 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetDUTCHESS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $63,750 over 2y, 2.7% of budget
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.

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.

The New York Communit…Robin Hood FoundationPinkerton FoundationThe Hyde and Watson F…Suny Impact Foundatio…Mbia FoundationJewish Communal FundMother Cabrini Health…National Philanthropi…Boston Foundation IncDavid and Katherine M…Carson Family Charita…
The New York Community TrustNY27× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Robin Hood Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Suny Impact Foundation Inc · Mbia Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · David and Katherine Moore Family Foundation · Carson Family Charitable Trust

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 Gerstner Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Ywca of Palm Beach County — 72% of income from government
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • HomeStart Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Project Hope Boston Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Adopt-a-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Palm Beach Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
  • United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Gerstner Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Gerstner Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 110 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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