· Private foundation
Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of BENJAMIN AND ELIZABETH GORDON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE | $20,000 |
| PALM BEACH UNITED WAY | $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 |
| MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE (MEMRI) | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 16 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation5× · 2020–2024 · $103k · revenue +55%
- PCPINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC3× · 2021–2024 · $76k · revenue +32%
- TOTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc4× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- YUYALE UNIVERSITY DONATED SECURITIES ACCOUNTone grant, 2023 · $100k
- SCSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOOD ALLERGY INSTITUTEone grant, 2019 · $80k
- TITOWN IN PALM BEACH UNITED WAYone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)
Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…
Phelps memorial hospital association ("pmha") is part of northwell health, inc ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…
The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.
To strengthen jewish life and identity in our community, provide for jewish people in need and promote support for israel.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc. 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 34 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 79 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.
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds PINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds United Way of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds RED SNEAKERS FOR OAKLEY INC ↗
- Who funds END ALLERGIES TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH AREA TENNIS PATRONS INC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST FORUM ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TEDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREENE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Sidney Kohl Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfeifler Family Foundation · Alice Busch Gronewaldt Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
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 organization Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable Foundation 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.
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — 6% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Palm Beach Day Academy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc — 0% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.