· Private foundation
Gordon Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLORADO GIVES 365 | $6,239 |
| NEXT GALLERY | $3,000 |
| FREEDOM READS | $2,000 |
| JUVENILE LAW CENTER | $2,000 |
| BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| LIBRARIES WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL KIDNEY DONATION ORG | $2,000 |
| THE MARSHALL PROJECT | $2,000 |
| THE BLACK DEAF PROJECT | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TMTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +133%
- LWLIBRARIES WITHOUT BORDERS5× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +45%
THE MIDNIGHT MISSION3× · 2018–2021 · $10k · revenue +21%
Funded once
PRO PUBLICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +48%
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +44%- PAPEN AMERICAN CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +110%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
The nonpartisan migration policy institute seeks to improve immigration and integration policies through authoritative research and analysis, opportunities for learning and dialogue, and the development of new ideas to address complex…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The world justice project (wjp) is a non-profit organization, incorporated in the state of washington with its headquarters in washington, d.c. an office in mexico city. wjp is an independent, multidisciplinary organization working to…
Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.
The fuller project is the global newsroom dedicated to groundbreaking reporting that catalyzes positive change for women.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.
New america foundation is dedicated to renewing america by continuing the quest to realize our nation's highest ideals, honestly confronting the challenges caused by rapid technological and social change, and seizing the opportunities…
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center and the most unlike its peers is Next Gallery Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 25 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIBRARIES WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM READS INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT GALLERY INC ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds The Black Deaf Project ↗
- Who funds Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project ↗
- Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Freedom Reads Inc — 12% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.