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Gertrude S Gordon Foundation Xxxxxx0291

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.

$524k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$31,243
Largest grant, FY2025
$139,618
Organizations funded a year
9 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$9.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Gertrude S Gordon Foundation Xxxxxx0291 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$384k0%
FY20249$368k0%
FY20239$351k0%
FY20229$432k22%
FY20219$363k0%
FY20209$337k0%
FY20199$355k0%
FY20189$375k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.3MHealth$1.1MEducation$636kYouth Development$490kHuman Services$474kReligion$268kAnimals$262kInternational$115k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc$1,063,40091%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater la Cross$490,45892%
Coulee Region Humane Society Inc$262,22792%
La Crosse Public Education Foundation Inc$246,700912%
Bethany Lutheran Homes Inc$242,02390%
The Salvation Army$104,3854n/a

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($900k), not named here.

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.

Dahl Family Foundatio…La Crosse Community F…Donald a Gordon Found…Locher Family Foundat…Lyche Family Foundati…Cleary-Kumm Foundatio…Mayo Clinic Group Ret…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Dahl Family Foundation Xxxxxx6214WI15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dahl Family Foundation Xxxxxx6214 · La Crosse Community Foundation · Donald a Gordon Foundation Xxxxxx0175 · Locher Family Foundation Trust Xxxxxx1227 · Lyche Family Foundation Inc · Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc · Mayo Clinic Group Return · 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.

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About Gertrude S Gordon Foundation Xxxxxx0291

How much does Gertrude S Gordon Foundation Xxxxxx0291 give?
Gertrude S Gordon Foundation Xxxxxx0291 reported 10 grants totaling $523,605 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Gertrude S Gordon Foundation Xxxxxx0291 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (27%), Health (23%), Education (14%).
Who are Gertrude S Gordon Foundation Xxxxxx0291's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc ($1.1M), Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater la Cross ($490k), Coulee Region Humane Society Inc ($262k).
Does Gertrude S Gordon Foundation Xxxxxx0291 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gertrude S Gordon Foundation Xxxxxx0291 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 Gertrude S Gordon Foundation Xxxxxx0291?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dahl Family Foundation Xxxxxx6214, La Crosse Community Foundation, Donald a Gordon Foundation Xxxxxx0175.
Where is Gertrude S Gordon Foundation Xxxxxx0291 based?
Gertrude S Gordon Foundation Xxxxxx0291 is based in WI.

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 12 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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