North Dakota · 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.
- $149k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $961k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Hal and Kathleen Gershman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $149k | 39% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $18k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $57k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $1.2M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $108k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $101k | 34% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $64k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $108k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Community Violence Intervention Center | $147,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Grand Forks Foundation for Education Inc | $131,633 | 5 | 8% |
| Empire Arts Center | $124,900 | 7 | 10% |
| Fontbonne Academy | $83,200 | 4 | n/a |
| The Independent Shakespeare Co Inc | $58,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Global Friends Coalition | $54,500 | 8 | 4% |
| United Way of Grand Forks East Grand Forks and the Area Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Vidiots Foundation | $19,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Congregation of Sisters of St Joseph of Boston | $16,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($73k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hal and Kathleen Gershman Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About The Hal and Kathleen Gershman Family Foundation
- How much does The Hal and Kathleen Gershman Family Foundation give?
- The Hal and Kathleen Gershman Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $148,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Hal and Kathleen Gershman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (64%), Arts & Culture (13%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are The Hal and Kathleen Gershman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation ($1.0M), Community Violence Intervention Center ($148k), Grand Forks Foundation for Education Inc ($132k).
- Does The Hal and Kathleen Gershman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hal and Kathleen Gershman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Hal and Kathleen Gershman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Myra Foundation, Community Foundation of Grand Forks East Grand Forks and Region, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation.
- Where is The Hal and Kathleen Gershman Family Foundation based?
- The Hal and Kathleen Gershman Family Foundation is based in ND.
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