· Private foundation
The Hal and Kathleen Gershman 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FONTBONNE ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| EMPIRE ARTS CENTER | $35,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION & FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| INDEPENDENT SHAKESPEARE COMPANY | $15,000 |
| GLOBAL FRIENDS COALITION | $10,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER | $5,000 |
| NORTH DAKOTA NEWS COOPERATIVE | $2,500 |
| SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS | $2,000 |
| VIDIOTS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| DELLARTE INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| PATH PEOPLE HELPING THE HOMELESS | $1,000 |
| CYCLICAL INC | $1,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| ELYSIAN THEATER | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $204k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 9 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- GFGRAND FORKS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC5× · 2017–2023 · $132k · revenue +67%
- EAEMPIRE ARTS CENTER7× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +32%
- TITHE INDEPENDENT SHAKESPEARE CO INC7× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- TRTHEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -3%
- COCONGREGATION OF SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH OF BOSTONone grant, 2017 · $16k
- GFGRAND FORKS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -57%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cape Cod Shakespeare Festival in Chatham. 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.
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 36 years old; the field is 31. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
66 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. 66 of the 88 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRAND FORKS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT SHAKESPEARE CO INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FRIENDS COALITION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS AND THE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds VIDIOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALTRU HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation ↗
- Who funds GRAND FORKS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD STREET CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Northern Valley Youth Orchestras ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENT HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds GREATER GF SYMPHONY ASSN ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Public Arts Commission ↗
- Who funds FARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA NEWS COOPERATIVE ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS AND REGION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Myra Foundation · Community Foundation of Grand Forks East Grand Forks and Region · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Impact Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Midcontinent Foundation · Botsford Family Foundation · The Barry Foundation · Sanford Group Return
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 Hal and Kathleen Gershman 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Inc — 5% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.