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George E Gordy Family Educational Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$33k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Education$227kHealth$10k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$12,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$3,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$3,000
WASHINGTON COLLEGE$3,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$3,000
SALISBURY UNIVERSITY$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$1,500
DELAWARE TECH & COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 40% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $24k → 10%DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%EMERSON COLLEGE: $2k → 16%CABRINI UNIVERSITY: $2k → 6%MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 9%SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3k → 22%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 19%ROLLINS COLLEGE: $2k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT: $3k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN: $2k → 12%LEE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 13%OHIO UNIVERSITY: $2k → 22%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 24%LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: $2k → 20%WASHINGTON COLLEGE: $3k → 12%SALISBURY UNIVERSITY: $8k → 13%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $20k → 10%DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%EMERSON COLLEGE: $2k → 16%MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 9%SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3k → 22%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT: $3k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN: $2k → 12%LEE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 13%OHIO UNIVERSITY: $2k → 22%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 24%SALISBURY UNIVERSITY: $4k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $19k → 10%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 9%SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $2k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $16k → 10%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $12k → 10%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
VA
MD
DE
TN
OK
MS
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$213k · 19 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
6

Total granted

$213k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+4%

Still filing today

63%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $91k · revenue +22%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +12%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • OS
    OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • RC
    ROLLINS COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +37%
  • CL
    CABRINI LEGACY CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -99%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
7
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
8
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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9
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
10
Widener University

Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.

Education
11
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
12
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of New Haven and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 79 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%85%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%3%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%91%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/20
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,545

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.

04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
17/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $90,812 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARESALISBURY UNIVERSITY — $17,000 · OtherSALISBURY UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $11,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYUniversity of Michigan — $9,500 · OtherUniversity of MichiganUNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT — $8,000 · OtherMILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY — $7,000 · OtherOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY — $7,000 · OtherLEE UNIVERSITY — $6,000 · OtherMISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY — $6,000 · Other+3 more — $9,500 · Other+3 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $10,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF P…University of New Haven — $6,000 · EducationUniversity of New HavenSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY — $6,000 · EducationSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITYDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · EducationDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITYLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE — $4,000 · EducationLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGECornell University — $4,000 · EducationCornell UniversityTrustees of Tufts College — $4,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeEMERSON COLLEGE — $4,000 · EducationEMERSON COLLEGEWASHINGTON COLLEGE — $3,000 · Education+5 more — $9,000 · Education+5 more
Other$171,812Education$65,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $90,812 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $9,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of New Haven — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEE UNIVERSITY — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROLLINS COLLEGE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCABRINI LEGACY CORPORATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEY-BEACOM COLLEGE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

National Collegiate A…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN15.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · 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 George E Gordy Family Educational Fund 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.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • University of Delaware — 25% of income from government
  • Delaware State University — 16% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 11% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 11% of income from government
  • University of New Haven — 1% of income from government
  • Washington College — 0% of income from government
  • Goldey-Beacom College — 0% of income from government
  • Rollins College — 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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