· Private foundation
Gordon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Project HOME | $145,000 |
| Project HOME | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| Amnesty International USA | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Gordon Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 56%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PHPROJECT HOME COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $730k · revenue -92%
- IGIndividual grant recipient6× · 2020–2025 · $265k
Feeding America3× · 2020–2022 · $150k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- TDTHE DREXEL FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +158%
- CTCalled To Serve CDC Incone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -9%
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +4%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
See Schedule OOur mission is to support Temple University and its Health Sciences Center academic programs by providing the clinical environment and service to support the highest quality teaching and training programs for health care…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
According to the World Health Organization, half of the worlds 8 billion people still cannot access essential health services. Even for those who can, the costs are often cripplingly high. NGOs delivering health and humanitarian aid to…
To create and lead alliances and public-private partnerships that advance breakthrough biomedical discoveries and improve the quality of people's lives
Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…
Hcif is a nonprofit organization that drives high-value health care through multi-stakeholder collaboration and initiatives to improve access to, delivery of, and experience of care. hcif dissolved during fy25-26.
Support of subsidiary tax-exempt healthcare, education and research organizations (see schedule o)
Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…
The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PROJECT HOME COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE DREXEL FUND ↗
- Who funds Called To Serve CDC Inc ↗
- Who funds UHMLA INC ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gordon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gordon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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