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Gordon Field & Wolf 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.

$309k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$154k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Philanthropy$309kArts & Culture$35kEducation$19kHealth$8kReligion$3kCommunity Improvement$2kYouth Development$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $200
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $309k
$154,403
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$154,403
MS FIELD FAMILY GIFT FUND$154,403
PLAY FOR PINK$200
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 16% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $154k → 7%CEREBAL PALSY OF WESTCHESTER: $100 → 9%LIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $1k → 17%MS FIELD FAMILY GIFT FUND: $154k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $14k → 8%THE HAPPINESS CLUB: $500 → 14%WESTCHESTER REFORM TEMPLE: $500 → 9%LIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $500 → 17%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $5k → 8%NATIONAL MS SOCIETY: $50 → 14%PARTNERS IN HEARING: $150 → 9%LIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $250 → 17%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH - DEPT OF ORTHOPAEDICS: $100 → 8%NATIONAL MS SOCIETY: $50 → 14%PARTNERS IN HEARING: $150 → 9%PLAY FOR PINK: $200 → 17%UTAH SYMPHONY: $20k → 8%CONGREGATION RODFEI ZEDEK: $3k → 14%UTAH SYMPHONY: $13k → 8%IMPACTS GRANTS CHICAGO: $1k → 14%CONGREGATION RODFEL ZEDEK: $100 → 14%IMPACTS GRANTS CHICAGO: $1k → 14%JUF: $15k → 14%JUF: $15k → 14%JUF: $15k → 14%JUF: $8k → 14%JDRF: $200 → 14%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $200 → 14%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.

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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$118k · 9 repeat orgs$157k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$118k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+35%

Still filing today

44%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
HealthCrime & LegalArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • US
    UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $33k · revenue +6%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $6k · revenue +13%
  • IG
    IMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO
    2× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCHgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +60%
  • TH
    THE HAPPINESS CLUB
    one grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +19%
  • WR
    WESTCHESTER REFORM TEMPLE
    one grant, 2021 · $500

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 Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

2
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
3
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
4
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc

To create and lead alliances and public-private partnerships that advance breakthrough biomedical discoveries and improve the quality of people's lives

Health
5
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
7
Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health
8
Parkinson's Foundation Inc

Make life better for people with parkinson's disease by improving care and advancing research toward a cure.

Health
9
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
10
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
11
Breakthrough Energy Foundation

Working with our world-class network of innovators, business and industry leaders, and policy experts, we accelerate the innovation of climate technologies at every stage - from discovery to development to deployment.

Public Benefit
12
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust and the most unlike its peers is Utah Symphony & Opera. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MS FIELD FAMILY GIFT FUND — $154,403 · OtherMS FIELD FAMILY GIFT FUNDJUF — $52,500 · OtherJUFUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $19,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH+5 more — $5,210 · OtherNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $154,403 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST+1 more — $2,250 · PhilanthropyUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA — $33,000 · Arts & CultureALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $6,400 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $1,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEARING INC — $300 · Health+2 more — $300 · HealthTHE HAPPINESS CLUB — $500 · Youth DevelopmentPLAY FOR PINK INC — $200 · Crime & Legal
Other$231,113Philanthropy$156,653Arts & Culture$33,000Health$8,000Youth Development$500Crime & Legal$200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $154,403 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA — $33,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $6,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO — $2,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAPPINESS CLUB — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEREBRAL PALSY OF WESTCHESTER INC — $100 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Field & Wolf 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 18 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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