How much did BENJAMIN AND ELIZABETH GORDON CHARITABLE grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of BENJAMIN AND ELIZABETH GORDON CHARITABLE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

middle eastsynagogue

2019

jewishsynagogue

2020

jewish

2021

jewish

2022

israelwayyalesynagogue

2023

jewish palmboston children's

2024

futurepromoting educationeducation policyvaluesimprovingwell-beingjews

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k11 grants · $24k
$10k–50k6 grants · $137k
$50k–250k1 grant · $101k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

YALE UNIVERSITY$101,100
THE PALM BEACH SYNAGOGUE INC$30,500
PINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC$25,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$21,500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$20,250
PALM BEACH UNITED WAY$20,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE$20,000
TEMPLE EMANU-EL OF PALM BEACH$8,900
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$5,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS$3,500
RED SNEAKERS FOR OAKLEY INC$3,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE MIDDLE EAST FORUM$1,000
AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION$1,000
PALM BEACH FREEDOM INSTITUTE$595
GEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT$500

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.0M · 29 repeat orgs$382k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$370k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+46%

Still filing today

45%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyEducationInternationalHealthCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther

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

JF
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY
5× · 2017–2024 · $159k · revenue +61%
PC
PINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC
2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +41%
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE
4× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +24%

Funded once

YU
YALE UNIVERSITY DONATED SECURITIES ACCOUNT
one grant, 2023 · $100k
SC
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOOD ALLERGY INSTITUTE
one grant, 2019 · $80k
TI
TOWN IN PALM BEACH UNITED WAY
one grant, 2022 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc

To mobilize human and financial resources to care for those in need, strengthen jewish life and advance the unity values and shared purpose (see schedule o for continuation)

Philanthropy

The Historical Society of Palm Beach

The society's primary focus is to stimulate public appreciation for the rich history and cultural heritage of palm beach county, to operate the richard and pat johnson palm beach county history museum, to perform research, and to discover,…

Arts & Culture

University of Florida Alumni

Education and research and shaping a better future for florida, the nation and the world," as determined by the university of florida board of trustees. the association strengthens the gator nation by involving and engaging its alumni,…

Education

Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc

The purposes of this corporation are to provide relief for, and to minister to the physical well-being of needy persons in israel; to support and maintain public hospitals, clinics, to relieve sickness and distress, and to prevent plague…

Philanthropy

Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc

Together, we nourish our neighbors and improve their lives one meal at a time.

Food & Nutrition

The Jewish Federation of

To strengthen jewish life and identity in our community, provide for jewish people in need and promote support for israel.

Philanthropy

Miami University Foundation

Support of miami university

Education

American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

To raise funds to support the operations and secure the israel philharmonic's financial future.

Arts & Culture

The Trustees of Princeton University

Princeton university is a private not-for-profit, nonsectarian institution of higher learning and a world-renowned research institution.

Education

Palm Beach Fellowship of Christians and

The Organization sponsors events to promote fellowship among all religions and cultures.

Civil Rights

Palm Beach Jewish Community Campus Corp

Owns & maintains property for the purpose of providing educational, cultural, recreational & social welfare programming for the local community.

Human Services

Joseph & Florence Mandel Jewish Day School

Joseph & Florence Mandel Jewish Day School develops ethical leadership, confident critical thinking, and a lifelong love of learning. By integrating superior general academics and Judaic studies, "Mandel JDS" achieves excellence in a…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network and the most unlike its peers is President and Fellows of Harvard College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/38

the rest of the field

14%

14,580/103,006

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.

05the grantee network

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/35

Grantees still filing

27/35

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$980,301Philanthropy$218,447International$68,236Education$62,541Health$32,563Arts & Culture$23,231Crime & Legal$17,776

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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation for Palm Beach AndFL19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Palm Beach And · Alice Busch Gronewaldt Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Borchardt Family Foundation Inc · The Pfeifler Family Foundation · Olb Foundation Inc · Michael Kluger & Heidi Greene Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County · The Bessemer Giving Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation BENJAMIN AND ELIZABETH GORDON CHARITABLE funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RED SNEAKERS FOR OAKLEY INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 814962021 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on RED SNEAKERS FOR OAKLEY INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable?

Find your warmest path to Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BENJAMIN AND ELIZABETH GORDON CHARITABLE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable?

More from the funding graph

BENJAMIN AND ELIZABETH GORDON CHARITABLE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable?

More from the funding graph