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· Private foundation
THE JOEL & LINDA GERSHENSON FAMILY
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$17k
Granted FY2025
16
Grants
8
Communities
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of THE JOEL & LINDA GERSHENSON FAMILY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
—
2020
detroit
2021
—
2022
—
2023
—
2024
jewish
2025
jewish
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 16 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$57k
Total assets
Largest grants
- KIDS KICKING CANCER$3,000
- KARMANOS$2,500
- WOUNDED WARRIOR$1,000
- ENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH$1,000
- SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$1,000
- ASPCA$1,000
- JEWISH HOSPICE$1,000
- PLANNED PARENTHOOD$1,000
- STAND WITH US$1,000
- FRIENDS OF IDF$1,000
- ST JUDE$1,000
- AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE$750
- YAD EZRA$500
- INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE$500
- JARC$500
02The need
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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 (FY18–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 32% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$52k · 15 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
15
4
Total granted
$52k
$1k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+42%
+36%
Still filing today
40%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalAnimalsPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther
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
KIDS KICKING CANCER8× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +7%- YEYAD EZRA8× · 2018–2025 · $4k · revenue +42%
- HOHOSPICE OF MICHIGAN5× · 2018–2023 · $2k · revenue +46%
Funded once
MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +36%- DDIAone grant, 2020 · $400
- GVGLOBAL VOLUNTEERSone grant, 2019 · $250 · revenue +14%
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
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc
To support the delivery of health care services to patients in the new york metropolitan area.
Health
2
Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc
To manage a continuum of senior care business lines.
Health
3
Network of Jewish Human Service
Advances efforts in best practices, innovation, research and partnerships to strengthen non-profit jewish human service agencies so they can better serve their communities.
Human Services
4
Isabella Geriatric Center Inc
To provide quality care through diverse programs designed to promote health and independence within and beyond
Human Services
5
Global Fund for Children
To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.
Arts & Culture
6
National Council of Jewish Women
Inspired by jewish values, the national council of jewish women is a grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children, and families, and by safeguarding…
Community Improvement
7
Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society
Prevention and treatment of abused animals.
Animals
8
Jewish Family and Children's Service
To support people of all backgrounds to reach their full potential.
Human Services
9
Metropolitan Jewish Home Care Inc
To provide certified home care and care management services.
Health
10
Jewish Family and Children's Service
Provide behavioral health and social services to children, families and adults of all ages.
Human Services
11
The Jewish Women's Archive Inc
The jewish women's archive is a national organization dedicated to collecting and promoting the extraordinary stories of jewish women. jwa explores the past as a framework for understanding the issues important to women today; inspires…
Arts & Culture
12
Fajr Scientific
To deliver life-saving medical, humanitarian, and educational support to vulnerable populations around the world.
Science & Tech
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Jewish World Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Fund for Animal Welfare Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$37,900Health$8,000Human Services$6,300International$3,750Arts & Culture$1,000Public Benefit$1,000Animals$1,000
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 KIDS KICKING CANCER ↗
- Who funds JARC ↗
- Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GILDAS CLUB METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds ENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation THE JOEL & LINDA GERSHENSON FAMILY 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: KIDS KICKING CANCER.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~4 months of operating runway; revenue held over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 383500655 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on KIDS KICKING CANCER, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to The Joel & Linda Gershenson Family through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines