How much did GORDON FLESCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of GORDON FLESCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

hospicecommunity-basedinternationalsustainableempowermentdiagnosedknowledge

2021

pregnancyruns hands-onhands-on high-energyhigh-energy meal-packingmeal-packing donatingdonating millionsmillions meals

2022

throughtoptimizedisorderspopulationlow incomeaffordablecamp

2023

programmingfoxdiffering abilitiesmembersenableself-sufficiencymentoring relationships

2024

neighborsvisioneliminatevolunteersclothingjanushand

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$42k

Total assets

Largest grants

Casa Guadalupe Ed Center$8,000
Open Arms Christian Ministries Inc$6,000
Kandu Industries$5,000
Neighborhood Food Pantries$5,000
Rebuilding Together Muscatine$5,000
Rock Rapids United Fund$5,000
Oshkosh Area Community Pantry$5,000
Shepherds College$5,000
Call to Freedom$5,000
Aware Evansville Community Action Inc$5,000
Habitat for Humanity of Southeast Ohio$5,000
Beyond Blessed Food Pantry$5,000
Verona Weekend Food Program$5,000
St Gregory of Nyssa$5,000
Journey 21$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 24% of GORDON FLESCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 41% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 32% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

GORDON FLESCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your 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.

New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need.

Human Services

House of Hope Green Bay Inc

House of hope offers a safe, supportive place where young parents and children experiencing homelessness will become confident, independent, and successful members of our community.

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Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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Goodwill Industries of South Central

Help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services.

Employment

Family Promise of the Chippewa

Serve families who are homeless, or at risk of homelessness, by providing resources in the areas of emergency assistance, stabilization and prevention.

Human Services

Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and

Create opportunities for people with barriers through training, employment, and supportive services

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Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

Charitable food distribution.

Food & Nutrition

Food Bank of Iowa

We provide food for iowa children, families, and seniors to lead full and active lives, strengthening the communities where they live.

Food & Nutrition

Coralville Community Food Pantry

The Coralville Community Food Pantry is an anti-hunger nonprofit organization providing critical and innovative food assistance services to the greater Coralville community.

Food & Nutrition

Homebound Meals Inc

Charitable delivery of meals to shut-ins.

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Feed My People Inc

To eliminate hunger by distributing food and household products to food pantries, community meal sites, and other programs serving low income people in 14 counties in west central wisconsin.

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Feeding Wisconsin Inc

Our vision is a hunger-free wisconsin and our mission is to help our food banks and partners fight hunger, improve health and strengthen local communities so that everybody in wisconsin has access to the food and benefits they need to…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kandu Industries 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/103

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,462

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.

06the grantee network

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

93/96

Grantees still filing

73/96

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$435,930Human Services$114,100Health$35,700Housing & Shelter$35,500Food & Nutrition$32,500Youth Development$29,000Education$13,000

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.

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Green Bay Packers FoundationWI45.5× affinity24 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley · The Bersted Foundation · Trustage Foundation Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · J J Keller Foundation Inc · Cedar Valley United Way · Otto Schoitz Foundation · The Clarence Wallace & Dolores Lynch · Max and Helen Guernsey · Lsb 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 organisation GORDON FLESCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Compassionate Home Health Care Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 272472623 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Compassionate Home Health Care Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 17% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

GORDON FLESCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inc?

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GORDON FLESCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph