The Gerbode Foundation is a private foundation that principally makes grants in the San Francisco Bay Area and Hawaii. [1] Founded as the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, it underwent a major restructuring in 2016. [2] The Gerbode Foundation has made grants to various left-leaning groups including Planned Parenthood and the ACLU. [3]
Background
The Gerbode Foundation is a 501(c)(3) private foundation that principally makes grants in the San Francisco Bay Area and Hawaii. Founded as the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, it underwent a major restructuring in 2016, which resulted in half of the funds remaining with the Gerbode Foundation and the other half resulting in the creation of three individual private foundations[4] The new foundation’s board contains the founder, Frank A. Gerbode, and his children Sharon, Colin, and Ian. [5]
The Gerbode Foundation has been involved in supporting organizations that challenge large energy companies. [6] The Foundation has also funded projects that have increased access to the chemical abortion pill RU-486 and “morning after” emergency contraception pills across the United States. [7]
Grantmaking
The Gerbode Foundation has donated to multiple social-liberal and pro-abortion groups in the past, including Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, Physicians For Reproductive Choice, and Nursing Students for Choice. [8]
In 2019, Time reported that the Gerbode Foundation funded a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that claims that “having an abortion is not detrimental to women’s health, but being denied access to a wanted [abortion] likely is.” [9] The study was also funded by other left-leaning pro-abortion grantmaking groups such as David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. [10]