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The Liora & Levy Gerzberg 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.

$79k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$215kEducation$75kHuman Services$65kCommunity Improvement$53kPhilanthropy$23kInternational$14kArts & Culture$11kScience & Tech$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$1,800
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POETIC$11,493
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMBAM HOSPITAL$10,000
JGIVE - FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA$8,600
CONSUMER TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION$5,550
PEF ISRALE ENDOWMENT FUND$5,196
CANCER COMMONS$5,150
CHABAD ISRAELI COMMUNITY CENTER LOS$4,308
OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMM CENTER$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,980
SWIM ACROSS AMERICA - CANCER RESEAR$3,276
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$3,000
THE BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE$1,905
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMM$1,800
UCSF CARDIOLOGY COUNCIL$1,500
WATERWORLD SWIM FOR SIGHT$1,364
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RED CROSS: $10 → 14%THE BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $2k → 8%THE BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $2k → 8%THE BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $2k → 8%THE BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $720 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of The Liora & Levy Gerzberg Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Liora & Levy Gerzberg Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$355k · 35 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
42

Total granted

$355k
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+10%

Still filing today

37%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CT
    CONSUMER TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +28%
  • CC
    CANCER COMMONS
    6× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +29%
  • BA
    BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE
    4× · 2018–2024 · $6k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • IF
    IEEE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +24%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +38%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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4
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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5
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
6
University of California San Francisco Foundation

Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…

Education
7
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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8
Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy
9
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
10
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
11
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is Sara Schottenstein Foundation. 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

47 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. 47 of the 92 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
29/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMBAM HOSPITAL: $93,018 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMBAM HOSPITALSWIM ACROSS AMERICA - CANCER RESEAR: $30,811 · OtherSWIM ACROSS AMERICA - CANCER RESEARFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE: $30,400 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCEOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMM CENTER: $22,260 · OtherOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMM CENTERFRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC: $17,300 · OtherPOETIC: $16,708 · Other+62 more: $116,069 · Other+62 moreIEEE FOUNDATION INC: $25,050 · EducationIEEE FOUND…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationTHE BOARD …AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC: $5,000 · EducationAMERICANS …CONSUMER TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION: $39,130 · Community ImprovementCONSUMER …CANCER COMMONS: $30,826 · Health+6 more: $1,650 · HealthJGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC: $8,600 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $7,893 · PhilanthropySTAND UP TO CANCER: $4,200 · PhilanthropySwim Across America Inc: $4,100 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION: $2,010 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $1,432 · Philanthropy+1 more: $275 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $7,500 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $3,000 · InternationalPitchon Lev Inc: $500 · International+1 more: $35 · InternationalFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $4,145 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST GRADUATE: $2,045 · Youth Development
Other$326,566Education$45,050Community Improvement$39,130Health$32,476Philanthropy$28,510International$11,035Youth Development$6,190

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONSUMER TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION: $39,130 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER COMMONS: $30,826 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetIEEE FOUNDATION INC: $25,050 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC: $8,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $7,893 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $6,397 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $5,925 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $4,145 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $4,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL: $4,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST GRADUATE: $2,045 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION: $2,010 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHOCHMAT HALEV: $1,934 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUMA VENTURES INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $1,432 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,042 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH CIRCLE THEATRE: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget1873 FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSARA SCHOTTENSTEIN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThat Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPitchon Lev Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBach Dancing and Dynamite Society Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA CLARA VALLEY BIRD ALLIANCE: $400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRAIN ANEURYSM FOUNDATION INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $230 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIND THE CHILDREN: $190 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBACK ON MY FEET: $160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA CHILDRENS THEATRE FKA ACTIVE ARTS THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIEN: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitot Childrens Museum: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CONSUMER TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CANCER COMMONS ↗
  • Who funds IEEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
  • Who funds SILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds FIRST GRADUATE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHOCHMAT HALEV ↗
  • Who funds JUMA VENTURES INC ↗

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.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA22.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Arcadia Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Liora & Levy Gerzberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Liora & Levy Gerzberg Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Liora & Levy Gerzberg Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 92 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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