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Gordon Foundation Bernard M Gordon Et Al Trustees

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
13%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$530,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,200,500
Organizations funded a year
8 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$1.8M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Gordon Foundation Bernard M Gordon Et Al Trustees funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$6.1M14%
FY20238$6.5M13%
FY20228$1.9M25%
FY20218$4.2M0%
FY20208$2.3M25%
FY201910$4.3M30%
FY20188$4.0M13%
FY20179$7.1Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$27MScience & Tech$11MHealth$4.5MReligion$250kCommunity Improvement$165kPhilanthropy$30kEnvironment$25kMembership Benefit$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Northeastern University$18,734,00070%
Museum of Science$6,250,00062%
Uc San Diego Foundation$1,375,00021%
The Citadel Foundation$600,00021%
Lahey Clinic Foundation Inc$500,000111%
Temple Ahavat Achim$250,0005n/a
Gloucester Education Foundation Inc$160,000578%
Eye Corps Inc$150,00037%
North Shore InnoVentures Inc$100,00042%
North Shore Technology Council Inc$65,000411%
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All grantees of Gordon Foundation Bernard M Gordon Et Al Trustees by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Northeastern University$18,734,00070%
Museum of Science$6,250,00062%
Uc San Diego Foundation$1,375,00021%
The Citadel Foundation$600,00021%
Lahey Clinic Foundation Inc$500,000111%
Temple Ahavat Achim$250,0005n/a
Gloucester Education Foundation Inc$160,000578%
Eye Corps Inc$150,00037%
North Shore InnoVentures Inc$100,00042%
North Shore Technology Council Inc$65,000411%
Robert I Lappin Charitable Foundation$30,00031%
Manchester Essex Conservation Trust$25,00013%
Trustees of Tufts College$16,50010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$10,00010%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Gordon Foundation Bernard M Gordon Et Al Trustees supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNortheastern University: $18,734,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMuseum of Science: $6,250,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetUc San Diego Foundation: $1,375,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Citadel Foundation: $600,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLahey Clinic Foundation Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGloucester Education Foundation Inc: $160,000 over 5y, 78% of budgetEye Corps Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetNorth Shore InnoVentures Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetNorth Shore Technology Council Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetRobert I Lappin Charitable Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetManchester Essex Conservation Trust: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $16,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Gordon Foundation Bernard M Gordon Et Al Trustees

How much does Gordon Foundation Bernard M Gordon Et Al Trustees give?
Gordon Foundation Bernard M Gordon Et Al Trustees reported 8 grants totaling $6,665,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Gordon Foundation Bernard M Gordon Et Al Trustees fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (63%), Science & Tech (25%), Health (11%).
Who are Gordon Foundation Bernard M Gordon Et Al Trustees's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Northeastern University ($19M), Museum of Science ($6.3M), Uc San Diego Foundation ($1.4M).
Does Gordon Foundation Bernard M Gordon Et Al Trustees fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gordon Foundation Bernard M Gordon Et Al Trustees accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gordon Foundation Bernard M Gordon Et Al Trustees?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Gordon Foundation Bernard M Gordon Et Al Trustees based?
Gordon Foundation Bernard M Gordon Et Al Trustees is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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