New York · Nonprofit
LISA BETH GERSTMAN FOUNDATION
LISA BETH GERSTMAN FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,100 to it, the largest being THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund ($96,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LISA BETH GERSTMAN FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Sunshine Foundationshared funders
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio match
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $12k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of LISA BETH GERSTMAN FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
LISA BETH GERSTMAN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LISA BETH GERSTMAN FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 73% · 2022 91% · 2023 53% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
LISA BETH GERSTMAN FOUNDATION draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Sunshine Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kenny Jacob Rudin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Irwin & Joan Geduld Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bernice and Milton Stern Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sugar Ray Leonard Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Abe & Kathyrn Selsky Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Propp Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Zarabi Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like LISA BETH GERSTMAN FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LISA BETH GERSTMAN FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LISA BETH GERSTMAN FOUNDATION?
- LISA BETH GERSTMAN FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,100 to it, the largest being THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund ($96,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LISA BETH GERSTMAN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $104,100 in grants to LISA BETH GERSTMAN FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LISA BETH GERSTMAN FOUNDATION?
- THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund is the largest funder on record, with $96,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LISA BETH GERSTMAN FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing