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Frances H & Harold E Gordon Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$51k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Philanthropy$41kFood & Nutrition$24kArts & Culture$18kEnvironment$15kReligion$11kHealth$10kHuman Services$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$820k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
LIGONIER TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT NO 1$2,500
WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF ART$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%1889 FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 16%1889 FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 16%LIGONIER VALLEY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION O: $10k → 10%LIGONIER VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS: $8k → 10%LIGONIER VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS: $6k → 10%LIGONIER VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS: $5k → 10%LIGONIER VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$83k · 9 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$83k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
0%

Still filing today

56%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LV
    LIGONIER VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $24k · revenue +34%
  • LW
    LOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +80%
  • WM
    WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +12%
  • NT
    NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UN
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • NA
    NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Ligonier Valley Chamber of Commerce

Promote civic, commercial, recreational, historical, environmental and general interest in the ligonier valley of westmoreland county pennsylvania

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2
Ludington Library

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.

Education
3
Lyons Public Library

Provide library materials and services to residents of lyons, ny and the surrounding area.

Education
4
Western Allegheny Community Library

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…

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5
Lower Macungie Library

Lower macungie library strives to inform, enrich, and empower our community

Education
6
Locust Valley Library

Provide library services

Education
7
Lloyd Library & Museum
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8
Lewisboro Library

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…

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9
Lawrenceburg Public Library Services and Resources

To fund special programs and projects for the Lawrenceburg Public Library district.

Education
10
Long Island Community Hospital At Nyu Langone Health

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…

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11
Ligonier Valley Fire Companies

Raise funds through direct campaign and grants for fire companies and public safety.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Ligonier Valley Rail Road Association

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ligonier Valley Library Association; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIGONIER VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS: $24,000 · Human ServicesLIGONIER VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELSLIGONIER VALLEY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIA ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesLIGONIER VALLEY YOUNG MENS CHRIST…1889 FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human Services1889 FOUNDATION INCJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER HARTFORD INC: $41,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF …ST MICHAEL'S OF THE VALLEY EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $11,000 · OtherST MICHAEL'S OF THE VALL…NATIONAL TRUST HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED: $5,500 · OtherNATIONAL TRUST HISTORIC …ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION: $4,500 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUND…NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UN: $2,500 · OtherNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTO…LIGONIER VALLEY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · OtherLIGONIER VALLEY POLICE F…NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $2,500 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY…LIGONIER VALLEY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · OtherLIGONIER VALLEY LIBRARY …+1 more: $1,000 · OtherLOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentLOYALHANNA …NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $5,250 · Arts & CultureWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $5,000 · Arts & CultureLigonier Township VFD #1: $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLIGONIER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,000 · Education
Human Services$44,000Philanthropy$41,000Other$31,500Environment$15,000Arts & Culture$10,250Public Safety & Disaster$5,000Education$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER HARTFORD INC: $41,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLIGONIER VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS: $24,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetLOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budget1889 FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLigonier Township VFD #1: $5,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED STATES NAVAL INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGONIER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Rk Mellon Family Foun…The Pittsburgh Founda…Richard King Mellon F…The Tomahawk Hill Fou…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Rk Mellon Family FoundationPA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Frances H & Harold E Gordon Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frances H & Harold E Gordon Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • United States Naval Institute: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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