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Gorder Family Foundation

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.

$16k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
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 FY2017–2024.

Education$920kCivil Rights$327kCrime & Legal$256kHousing & Shelter$132kHuman Services$64kYouth Development$35kArts & Culture$33kPhilanthropy$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,030
Median grant
3
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS$10,177
NORTHHAVEN$2,550
Individual grant recipient$1,030
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$1,000
KING COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION$1,000
KETTERING CANCER CENTER$100
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $50k → 16%L'ARCHE - TWIN CITIES: $3k → 14%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $25k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $25k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $629 → 14%PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES: $767 → 9%YOUTH CARE: $10k → 9%YOUTH CARE: $5k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $2k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $1k → 9%YOUTH CARE: $1k → 9%AMARA: $3k → 9%AMARA: $1k → 9%AMARA: $1k → 9%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

WA
MN
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
MD
AZ
DC

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 50 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
21

Total granted

$1.8M
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+31%

Still filing today

82%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • SU
    SEATTLE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $373k · revenue +62%
  • AC
    American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found
    4× · 2020–2023 · $321k · revenue +37%
  • EJ
    EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $240k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +177%
  • TS
    THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +1%
  • C9
    CLASSICAL 981graduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +44%

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
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
2
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
3
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
4
Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc

To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.

Arts & Culture
5
Seattle Architectural Foundation

The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…

Arts & Culture
6
Seattle Jobs Initiative

Seattle jobs initiative (sji) creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers.

Employment
7
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
8
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…

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9
Disability Rights Washington

Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.

Human Services
10
School's Out Washington

School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.

Youth Development
11
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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12
Seattle Public Library Foundation

The seattle public library foundation inspires the community's philanthropic support, advocacy for, and pride in the library.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation and the most unlike its peers is LArche Twin Cities. 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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr20%29%20–35yr14%33%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr20%66%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr13%2%55yr+

The field is 20% 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 — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/65
the rest of the field
12%
5,437/45,858

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

64 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. 64 of the 78 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/64
Grantees still filing
44/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $452,711 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONSEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $372,952 · OtherSEATTLE UNIVERSITYYMCA — $57,576 · OtherYMCA+44 more — $135,067 · Other+44 moreAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found — $320,847 · Civil RightsAmerican Civil Libe…EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS — $240,489 · Crime & LegalEQUAL JUSTICE W…KING COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION — $9,500 · Crime & Legal+2 more — $5,763 · Crime & LegalSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC — $100,552 · Human ServicesYOUTHCARE — $19,000 · Human ServicesMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE — $6,000 · Human Services+6 more — $10,656 · Human ServicesRAINIER SCHOLARS — $73,052 · EducationCOYOTE CENTRAL — $11,274 · EducationSawhorse Revolution — $10,000 · EducationTHE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $4,000 · Education+6 more — $16,000 · EducationRECOVERY CAFE — $11,774 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $4,500 · HealthTUBMAN CENTER FOR HEALTH & FREEDOM — $2,000 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $2,000 · HealthWASHINGTON WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $7,650 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATION — $6,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $4,200 · Philanthropy
Other$1,018,306Civil Rights$320,847Crime & Legal$255,752Human Services$136,208Education$114,326Health$20,274Philanthropy$18,350

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $372,952 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found — $320,847 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS — $240,489 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC — $100,552 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS — $73,052 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTHCARE — $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE — $11,774 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOYOTE CENTRAL — $11,274 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFORTERRA NW — $11,106 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFARESTART — $10,046 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSawhorse Revolution — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetKING COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION — $9,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $7,650 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWING LUKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $6,525 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $5,288 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLASSICAL 981 — $5,110 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMARA — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE — $4,263 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $4,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE GIRLS' SCHOOL — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTEENS IN PUBLIC SERVICE — $3,264 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAKESIDE SCHOOL — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNWPV YOUTH INITIATIVE — $2,750 over 1y, 100% of budgetCHINATOWN INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHWEST CHOIRS — $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTUBMAN CENTER FOR HEALTH & FREEDOM — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BUSH SCHOOL — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle JazzED — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AOPA FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEverstrong Prevention — $1,510 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOLD DOG HAVEN — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON INNOCENCE PROJECT — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF KEXP — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget501 Commons — $1,049 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPATH WITH ART — $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.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…United Way of King Co…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Lucky Seven FoundationWyman Youth TrustGrousemont FoundationArtsfundReal Progress Foundat…Medina FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…
Seattle FoundationWA64.2× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · Grousemont Foundation · Artsfund · Real Progress Foundation · Medina Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Gorder Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 78 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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