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THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC

THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,353,392 to it, the largest being William Davidson Foundation ($2,425,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.6M
Funders on record
47
Grants received
$5.4M
Net assets
$1.7M
28/47 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 71%
01What it does

What The Gesher Foundation Inc does

Mission

To support formal and informal educational programs that reach out to all members of israeli society to teach tolerance and understanding and to promote jewish and israeli identity.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To assist the gesher educational affilaites and gesher multi-cultural film fund in israel in providing israeli children and adjults an education in jewish history, culture, and identity, and to promote mutual understanding, respect, and tolerance of all.

    $1,171,844 spentof which $1,100,000 as grants$1,597,813 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,171,844.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($807k)2018 Revenue 91 ($991k) Expenses 87 ($905k) Net assets 96 ($775k)2019 Revenue 99 ($1.1M) Expenses 91 ($949k) Net assets 98 ($794k)2020 Revenue 75 ($822k) Expenses 81 ($840k) Net assets 96 ($776k)2021 Revenue 125 ($1.4M) Expenses 74 ($770k) Net assets 169 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 119 ($1.3M) Expenses 122 ($1.3M) Net assets 172 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 151 ($1.6M) Expenses 165 ($1.7M) Net assets 171 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 146 ($1.6M) Expenses 133 ($1.4M) Net assets 206 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (146)Expenses (133)Net assets (206)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $792k to $1.4M (+75%).

$819k
$786k
$806k
$792k
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.7M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,679 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$52k
’17
$85k
’18
$127k
’19
−$18k
’20
$590k
’21
$26k
’22
−$66k
’23
$216k
’24
6.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Jonathan Tulkoff

Boar member & chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1616161616161514
Joined·+1+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·1000011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $202k → $1.0M.

15 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 funders by total. 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

THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

39% 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 THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC.

45%
largest funder
66%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 32% · 2019 43% · 2020 23% · 2021 59% · 2022 55% · 2023 49% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

How long its funders stay

40% of THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 14 states in all.

VT
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
KY
MD
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve6.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC

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In New York

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 4%Fundraising 11%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 22 states

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC?
THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,353,392 to it, the largest being William Davidson Foundation ($2,425,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $5,353,392 in grants to THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC?
William Davidson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,425,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC 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.

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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 47 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing