Florida · Private foundation
Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $8.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,800,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $162k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $8.1M | 39% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $237k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $204k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $264k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $120k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $84k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $172k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $59k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temple Emanu-El of Palm Beach Inc | $7,860,084 | 9 | n/a |
| Yale University | $210,428 | 3 | n/a |
| Palm Beach Orthodox Synagogue Inc | $132,873 | 8 | n/a |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $103,305 | 5 | 0% |
| Yale University | $102,550 | 4 | n/a |
| Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc | $75,766 | 3 | 0% |
| Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc | $60,398 | 4 | 0% |
| The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc | $55,202 | 7 | 1% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $52,822 | 5 | 0% |
| United Way of Palm Beach County Inc | $30,306 | 2 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($443k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
Compare Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable Foundation
- How much does Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable Foundation give?
- Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $8,066,423 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Philanthropy (22%), Religion (14%).
- Who are Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Temple Emanu-El of Palm Beach Inc ($7.9M), Yale University ($210k), Palm Beach Orthodox Synagogue Inc ($133k).
- Does Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc, Sidney Kohl Family Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable Foundation based?
- Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable Foundation is based in FL.
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