· Private foundation
Gordon Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL MISSOURI HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,466 |
| Curators of the University of Missouri | $3,500 |
| POLK COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| PEOPLE HELPING PAWS DOG RESCUE | $1,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $589) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CMCENTRAL MISSOURI HUMANE SOCIETY7× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +184%
- CCCEDAR CREEK THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER5× · 2019–2024 · $6k · revenue +24%
- CFCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $2k
- CFCHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $2k
- CCCEDAR CREEK RIDING CENTERone grant, 2017 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…
Columbia Gorge Humane Society is committed to promoting healthy, safe and lifelong relationships between people and their pets through sustainable programs of education, adoption and spay/neutering. We will endeavor to fight for the abused…
To assist the community in the successful rehoming (and training) of adoptable animals.
Protect and rescue abandoned and at-risk animals.
provide shelter and care for dogs and cats
Rescue retired greyhounds and place in homes
To help rescue unwanted pets
Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.
The organization rescues animals and cares for them until they can find them qualified homes.
we are a small animal rescue. We help the community by assisting with vet care and rehoming animals they cannot keep. We also pull dogs cats kittens and puppies from local kill shelters when they run out of space, we provide those animals…
Animal protection and preservation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Missouri Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 37 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CENTRAL MISSOURI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CEDAR CREEK THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF COLUMBIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds UNCHAINED MELODIES INC ↗
- Who funds Boone County Animal Care ↗
- Who funds POLK COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOONE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PAWS DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MISSOURI HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds OATS INC ↗
- Who funds BARNIES PLACE FELINE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA SECOND CHANCE ↗
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.
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
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 Gordon Charitable Trust 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.
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.