· Private foundation
Frances H & Harold E 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIGONIER VALLEY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION O | $10,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER HARTFORD IN | $10,000 |
| LIGONIER VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS | $6,000 |
| 1889 FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| LOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC | $5,000 |
| ST MICHAELS OF THE VALLEY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $3,000 |
| WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF ART | $2,500 |
| LIGONIER TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT NO 1 | $2,500 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| LIGONIER VALLEY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL TRUST HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED | $1,500 |
| LIGONIER VALLEY POLICE FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- LVLIGONIER VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS4× · 2022–2025 · $24k · revenue +34%
- LWLOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +80%
- WMWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +37%
Funded once
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATESone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +12%- NANATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INCone grant, 2024 · $3k
- NTNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
Promote civic, commercial, recreational, historical, environmental and general interest in the ligonier valley of westmoreland county pennsylvania
To provide additional support to ludington public library. our group provides volunteers to assist the staff and we raise funds to purchase books and materials.
Provide library materials and services to residents of lyons, ny and the surrounding area.
The mission of the western allegheny community library is to provide a safe, inclusive and accessible community-centered library that is free to the public and empowers its residents personal, educational and professional growth through…
Lower macungie library strives to inform, enrich, and empower our community
Provide library services
The mission of the lewisboro library is to provide the community with free, uncensored access to information through a variety of media and services, and offer educational, cultural, recreational, and civic engagement opportunities in a…
To fund special programs and projects for the Lawrenceburg Public Library district.
The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…
Raise funds through direct campaign and grants for fire companies and public safety.
To preserve the legacy of the Ligonier Valley Rail Road, conserve its vestiges, collect its relics & memorabilia, and educate the public about railroad history in the Ligonier Valley.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ligonier Valley Library Association and the most unlike its peers is Ligonier Valley Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 17 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds LOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds 1889 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VALLEY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds Ligonier Township VFD #1 ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VALLEY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES NAVAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
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: Rk Mellon Family Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Tomahawk Hill Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Frances H & Harold E 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United States Naval Institute — 3% 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.