· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $101k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+18 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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, $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 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AMAmerican Museum of Natural History3× · 2019–2021 · $2.6M · revenue +13%
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC5× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +32%- FBFAMILYAID BOSTON INC5× · 2019–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +249%
Funded once
- USUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCEone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- SESETON EDUCATION PARTNERSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue +163%
- TBTHE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INCone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -43%
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.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
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.
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…
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.
How this is measured
78 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. 78 of the 110 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 THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds Adopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds THE HAVENS RELIEF FUND SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PART OF THE SOLUTION ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ACTIVATE GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HomeStart Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gerstner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gerstner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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