· Private foundation
The Gesher Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $36,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $10,000 |
| MARY'S PLACE | $10,000 |
| MAZON | $10,000 |
| SUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATIONAL FUND | $10,000 |
| FINCA | $6,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $6,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $6,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of its 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 +35% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FIFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +19%
- MAMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger8× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +22%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- WPWAYLAND PRODUCTIONS LTDone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -100%
- NRNATIONAL REGISTRY OF EXONERATIONSone grant, 2022 · $8k
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Incone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -9%
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 organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Eastwest institute (ewi) works to reduce international conflict, addressing seemingly intractable problems that threaten world security and stability. (continued on schedule o)
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…
The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
Refugees international advocates for lifesaving assistance, human rights, and protection for displaced people and promotes solutions to displacement crisis.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 16 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 NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds WAYLAND PRODUCTIONS LTD ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gesher Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gesher Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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