· Private foundation
Gordon Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUND FOR THE ARTS | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION | $21,000 |
| MARYHURST | $5,700 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| RAINN | $5,000 |
| WHITSTRONG | $5,000 |
| NAMI | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LOLOUISVILLE OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY IN2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +156%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +13%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT INC5× · 2019–2023 · $40k · revenue +426%
Funded once
- MMMaker Mobile Incone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -54%
- TCTHE CLINIC A ROADIE ADVOCACY GROUPone grant, 2020 · $18k
- THTORONTO HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Biomade's mission is to enable domestic bioindustrial manufacturing at all scales, develop technologies to enhance u.s. bioindustrial competitiveness, de-risk investment in relevant infrastructure, and expand the biomanufacturing workforce…
Feedback labs' mission is to support philanthropy, nonprofits, and other social sector organizations to regularly listen and act on feedback in high-quality, equitable, and inclusive ways. these supported organizations will exchange…
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kmac Museum. 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.
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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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. 31 of the 56 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 FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds The Green Turtle Cay Foundation ↗
- Who funds Maker Mobile Inc ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY IN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MARYHURST INC ↗
- Who funds Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) ↗
- Who funds DIAMOND DERBY INC BARNSTABLE BROWN PARTY ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FUND TEXAS CHOICE ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CHANCE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE DREAM FACTORY INC ↗
- Who funds KMAC MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
- Who funds REKLAIMED ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Nicklies Foundation Inc · The Brooke Brown Barzun Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Fund for the Arts Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Cralle Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc
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.
- National Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health — 54% 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.