Missouri · Private foundation
Gordon Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $16k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,466
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $340k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Gordon Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $16k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $16k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $17k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $7k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $3k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $16k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $17k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $16k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calvary Episcopal Church | $17,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Central Missouri Humane Society | $15,416 | 7 | 0% |
| Cedar Creek Therapeutic Riding Center | $5,600 | 5 | 1% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $4,700 | 7 | 0% |
| The Crossing | $4,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Voluntary Action Center | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels of Columbia Inc | $2,600 | 4 | 0% |
| The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Unchained Melodies Inc | $2,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Boone County Animal Care | $2,000 | 3 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calvary Episcopal Church | $17,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Central Missouri Humane Society | $15,416 | 7 | 0% |
| Cedar Creek Therapeutic Riding Center | $5,600 | 5 | 1% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $4,700 | 7 | 0% |
| The Crossing | $4,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Voluntary Action Center | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels of Columbia Inc | $2,600 | 4 | 0% |
| The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Unchained Melodies Inc | $2,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Boone County Animal Care | $2,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Columbia Crime Stoppers Program Inc | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Polk County Humane Society | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Boone County Historical Society | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| People Helping Paws Dog Rescue | $1,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Central Missouri Honor Flight Inc | $750 | 1 | 0% |
| Oats Inc | $589 | 1 | 0% |
| Barnies Place Feline Rescue | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Columbia Second Chance | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($55k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gordon Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Veterans United Foundation · Boone Electric Community Trust · Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Fred V & Dorothy H Heinkel Charitable Foundation · Boone County Community Trust · Stafford Family Charitable Trust · Allen P and Josephine B Green · Petsmart Charities Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good
How this is measured
About Gordon Charitable Trust
- How much does Gordon Charitable Trust give?
- Gordon Charitable Trust reported 5 grants totaling $16,466 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gordon Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (20%), Religion (18%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Gordon Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Calvary Episcopal Church ($18k), Central Missouri Humane Society ($15k), Cedar Creek Therapeutic Riding Center ($6k).
- Does Gordon Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gordon Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gordon Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Veterans United Foundation, Boone Electric Community Trust, Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc.
- Where is Gordon Charitable Trust based?
- Gordon Charitable Trust is based in MO.
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