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Gordon 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $945k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $1,000,000 |
| FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI SEMITISM | $900,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL TRUST BOSTON | $400,000 |
| WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF BOSTON | $250,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE THE JIMMY FUND | $212,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MA | $200,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGIC DISEASES | $125,000 |
| TEMPLE OHEBEI SHALOM (TOS) | $108,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON | $100,000 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - ATHLETICS | $50,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY BACOW-GORDON ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP | $50,000 |
| BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON | $20,000 |
| THE SANCTUARY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $223k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +53% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $228k 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
- FTFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC5× · 2020–2024 · $3.0M · revenue ×19
- WFWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC6× · 2018–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +280% · 48% of their budget
Trustees of Tufts College5× · 2017–2021 · $1.9M · revenue +50%
Funded once
- BCBOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $650k
- TOTRUSTEES OF TUFTS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $200k
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +63%
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 mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
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…
The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…
Boston university affiliated physicians, inc.'s (buap) primary mission is to provide health care services in a manner that promotes health for the benefit of the community, to perform medical and clinical research in the public interest,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fenway Community Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
56 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. 56 of the 91 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 FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE WINSOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Neurologic Diseases Inc ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE ORPHAN DISEASE PATHWAY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LAKE TANGANYIKA FLOATING HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Red Sox Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · HSJK Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The Hamilton Company Charitable 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 Gordon 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Maranyundo Initiative Inc — 85% of income from government
- Fenway Community Health Center Inc — 27% of income from government
- The Second Step Inc — 26% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Rogerson Communities Inc — 6% of income from government
- Longwood Symphony Orchestra Inc — 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Brookline Teen Center — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Fessenden School — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 0% of income from government
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.
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