· Private foundation
David and Ruth Gorton Family Charitable Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 885 FM | $6,000 |
| SAM & DEVORAH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| PATHFINDER NETWORK DBA PATHFINDERS OF OREGON | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS | $3,500 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,750 |
| LOS ANGELES GUILD FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH | $2,500 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| MAKE A WISH | $1,500 |
| TREVOR PROJECT | $1,500 |
| RECONSTRUCTING JUDAISM | $1,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 8 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC6× · 2017–2023 · $90k · revenue +101%- CUCOLGATE UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +30%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC3× · 2021–2023 · $17k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- PSPROJECT SHEMAone grant, 2023 · $5k
- SJST JOSEPH CENTERone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +24%
- PIPOPSTHECLUBCOM INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue 0%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds READY TO SUCCEED ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FOOD ON FOOT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
- Who funds POPSTHECLUBCOM INC ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Real News Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CLEMENCY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES GUILD FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BRICKS AND MORTALS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER CONTRIBUTION ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David and Ruth Gorton Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David and Ruth Gorton Family Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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