Kentucky · Private foundation
Gordon Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $92k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Gordon Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $92k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $128k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $68k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $155k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $148k | 55% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $132k | 90% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $51k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $102k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fund for the Arts Inc | $225,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Green Turtle Cay Foundation | $54,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy In | $50,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Maker Mobile Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 19% |
| University of Louisville Foundation Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of the Environment Inc | $40,000 | 5 | 4% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $38,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Oceana Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| NAMI National | $28,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Children's Miracle Network | $16,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($163k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gordon Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Gordon Foundation Inc
- How much does Gordon Foundation Inc give?
- Gordon Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $91,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Gordon Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Health (14%), Environment (10%).
- Who are Gordon Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fund for the Arts Inc ($225k), The Green Turtle Cay Foundation ($54k), Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy In ($50k).
- Does Gordon Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gordon Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gordon Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, Snowy Owl Foundation Inc, The Gheens Foundation Inc.
- Where is Gordon Foundation Inc based?
- Gordon Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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