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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 FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$4.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
  • $250k+4 grants · $6.5M
$530,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$4,200,500
SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE$750,000
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION$530,000
LAHEY HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER$75,000
EYE CORPS INC$50,000
GLOUCESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION$35,000
MANCHESTER ESSEX CONSERVATION TRUST$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1.0M → 8%TEMPLE AHAVAT ACHIM: $50k → 10%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $4.2M → 16%UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $1.2M → 11%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION: $600k → 17%EYE CORPS INC: $50k → 14%THE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $300k → 12%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $400k → 8%TEMPLE AHAVAT ACHIM: $50k → 10%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $4.1M → 16%UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $175k → 11%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION: $600k → 17%EYE CORPS INC: $50k → 14%THE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $300k → 12%TEMPLE AHAVAT ACHIM: $50k → 10%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $2.5M → 16%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION: $530k → 17%EYE CORPS INC: $50k → 14%TEMPLE AHAVAT ACHIM: $50k → 10%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $2.5M → 16%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION: $530k → 17%TEMPLE AHAVAT ACHIM: $50k → 10%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $2.5M → 16%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION: $530k → 17%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1.5M → 16%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION: $530k → 17%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1.4M → 16%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION: $530k → 17%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $1.5M → 16%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION: $530k → 17%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $1.5M → 16%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $1.0M → 16%THE MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL CORP: $832k → 16%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $750k → 16%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $750k → 16%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $750k → 16%THE MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL CORP: $400k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $375k → 16%THE MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL CORP: $250k → 16%THE MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL CORP: $200k → 16%THE MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL CORP: $200k → 16%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY: $1.1M → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY: $513k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY: $509k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY: $131k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY: $124k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36M · 13 repeat orgs$937k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
5

Total granted

$36M
$912k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+59%

Still filing today

69%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $19M · revenue +110%
  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $1.4M · revenue +78%
  • EC
    EYE CORPS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • LC
    LAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +701%
  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $375k
  • Trustees of Tufts Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $17k · revenue +36%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
2
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
5
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
8
Trustees of Boston College

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…

Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
10
Massachusetts High Technology Council Inc

The Massachusetts High Technology Council, Inc. is an organization of CEOs andsenior executives representing technology companies, professional services firms,and research institutions who are dedicated to creating and sustaining…

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11
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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12
Peter Cohen Foundation
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is Robert I Lappin Charitable Foundation. 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

15 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. 15 of the 21 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $18,734,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $1,400,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $1,375,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION+3 more: $776,500 · EducationSALEM STATE UNIVERSITY: $4,396,977 · OtherSALEM STATE UNIVERSITYTHE MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL CORP: $1,882,000 · OtherTHE MASS GENERAL HOSPI…LAHEY HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER: $1,550,000 · OtherLAHEY HOSPITAL & MEDIC…MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $375,000 · Other+3 more: $360,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $6,250,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF SCIENC…AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $4,380,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SO…LAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · HealthEYE CORPS INC: $150,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthNORTH SHORE TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL INC: $65,000 · Community ImprovementROBERT I LAPPIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyMANCHESTER ESSEX CONSERVATION TRUST: $25,000 · Environment
Education$22,285,500Other$8,563,977Arts & Culture$6,250,000International$4,380,000Health$660,000Community Improvement$65,000Philanthropy$30,000Environment$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $4,380,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $1,400,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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 NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CITADEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Gloucester Education Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds EYE CORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds North Shore InnoVentures Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT I LAPPIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MANCHESTER ESSEX CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗

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 Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gordon Foundation Bernard M Gordon Et Al Trustees funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gordon Foundation Bernard M Gordon Et Al Trustees. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Gordon Foundation Bernard M Gordon Et Al Trustees through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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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