· Private foundation
The Peter and Kristen Gerhard 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $66,989 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $69,568 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,579 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | $33,000 |
| American Heart Association | $15,000 |
| American Heart Association | $10,000 |
| Anabel Foundation | $4,000 |
| Colts Neck Township Pba Local 333 Civic Association Inc | $2,000 |
| Black Poster Project | $1,000 |
| Partnership for A Drug-Free New Jersey | $1,000 |
| Childfund International | $300 |
| Childfund International | $180 |
| Miami Fraternal Order of Police Associates Inc | $100 |
| Special Olympics Florida Inc | $100 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | $100 |
| Florida Sheriffs Association | $100 |
| Childfund International | $59 |
| National Police Association Inc | $50 |
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 +37% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc4× · 2019–2024 · $49k · revenue +43%
- TPThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc2× · 2019–2023 · $16k · revenue +215%
- CICHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA6× · 2019–2024 · $3k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- HFHUMC FOUNDATION [Hackensack University Medical Center]one grant, 2019 · $15k
- MHMERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $12k
- HMHACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH INCone grant, 2021 · $6k
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.
To assist disabled veterans, active military personnel, first responders with disabilities, and those who have served our country honorably to live with dignity and independence. america's vetdogs trains and places guide dogs for…
Provide service dogs for qualified disabled military veterans diagnosed with ptsd, tbi or msi located in the state of wisconsin.
Brief description of the organization's mission the purpose of the fund is to provide assistance to the families of new york city police officers and firefighters who have been killed in the line of duty. after the events of september 11,…
Determined to end veteran suicide, k9s for warriors provides highly-trained service dogs to military veterans suffering from ptsd, traumatic brain injury and/or military sexual trauma. with the majority of dogs being rescues, this…
The mission of the fire watch project, inc. is to end veteran suicide in florida and across the united states by partnering with local and state governments, corporations, and other non-profit organizations to develop "ground up"…
The national association of police organizations (napo) was established to unite all law enforcement organizations within the united states in order to promote and maintain federal legislation and policies most beneficial to law…
Programs benefiting deceased palm springs police officers that have died in the line of duty and other police officers that have served for a long time with distinction protecting the citizens of palm springs. events are held at various…
The guide dog foundation for the blind, inc. provides guide and service dogs free of charge to provide increased independence, enhanced mobility, and companionship to people who are blind, visually impaired or have other disablities. the…
Cj3 foundation provides services, support, and advocacy to united states military service members, veterans/disabled veterans, law enforcement, and emergency responders who need/require assistance, and then connecting them with resources…
Puppies behind bars trains incarcerated individuals to raise service dogs for wounded war veterans and first responders, facility dogs for police departments, and explosive-detecton canines for law enforcement.
To provide financial assistance to the families of police officers in need.
Afp&cc's mission is to support & promote the law enforcement profession by assisting family members of slain officers through programs of compassion, by assisting in the perpetuation of the american police hall of fame & museum, & by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Anabel Foundation. 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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 45 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.
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