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Gorman Foundation Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$22k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$250
Largest grant, FY2025
$17,025
Organizations funded a year
18 to 32
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$199k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Gorman Foundation Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 78% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesScience & TechPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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
FY2025still arriving21$22k0%
FY202418$15k22%
FY202323$7k17%
FY202223$8k22%
FY202130$10k23%
FY202032$7kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$30kHealth$8kPhilanthropy$7kEnvironment$6kEducation$6kFood & Nutrition$4kArts & Culture$3kHuman Services$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mercy Health Foundation$2,75050%
Food Bank of the Rockies$2,00040%
Roaring Fork Conservancy$1,90060%
Mountain Rescue Aspen Inc$1,50060%
Illinois Wesleyan University$1,50060%
United Way Battlement to the Bells$1,50021%
Independence Pass Foundation$1,45060%
The Blake School$1,40060%
Aspen Historical Society$1,40060%
Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers$1,35060%
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All grantees of Gorman Foundation Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mercy Health Foundation$2,75050%
Food Bank of the Rockies$2,00040%
Roaring Fork Conservancy$1,90060%
Mountain Rescue Aspen Inc$1,50060%
Illinois Wesleyan University$1,50060%
United Way Battlement to the Bells$1,50021%
Independence Pass Foundation$1,45060%
The Blake School$1,40060%
Aspen Historical Society$1,40060%
Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers$1,35060%
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago$1,25040%
University of Denver$1,25060%
Aspen Journalism$1,25040%
Greater Chicago Food Depository$1,20040%
Challenge Aspen$1,10050%
Colorado Episcopal Foundation$1,0002n/a
Christ Church$7502n/a
Americares Foundation Inc$75030%
The Wetlands Initiative$65030%
Denver Rescue Mission$50020%
Aspen Center for Physics$50020%
Aspen Valley Hospital Foundation$50020%
North Shore Senior Center$40020%
The Volunteer Center$40020%
The Josselyn Center Nfp$35020%
World Bicycle Relief Nfp$30010%
National Park Foundation$25010%
American Cancer Society Inc$25010%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$25010%
American Heart Association Inc$25010%
Episcopal Charities$2501n/a
Aspen Deserves Better$25011%
McAllister Foundation$25010%
Samaritan Counseling Center$1001n/a
Chicago Youth Centers$10010%
Counseling Center of the North Shore Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($37k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gorman Foundation Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMercy Health Foundation: $2,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRoaring Fork Conservancy: $1,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Rescue Aspen Inc: $1,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetIllinois Wesleyan University: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way Battlement to the Bells: $1,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetIndependence Pass Foundation: $1,450 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Blake School: $1,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Historical Society: $1,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRoaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers: $1,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Denver: $1,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Journalism: $1,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChallenge Aspen: $1,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wetlands Initiative: $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Rescue Mission: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Center for Physics: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Valley Hospital Foundation: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Shore Senior Center: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Volunteer Center: $400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Josselyn Center Nfp: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Bicycle Relief Nfp: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Deserves Better: $250 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMcAllister Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChicago Youth Centers: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCounseling Center of the North Shore Inc: $100 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 32.

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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.

Nm Morris Family Foun…Alpenglow FoundationBrady FoundationAspen Community Found…Arches FoundationKemper Educational an…Colorado Gives Founda…The Chicago Community…Ruth a Carver Foundat…Susan and Stephen Bai…Aspen Business Center…John & Jacolyn Bucksb…
Nm Morris Family FoundationNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nm Morris Family Foundation · Alpenglow Foundation · Brady Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · Arches Foundation · Kemper Educational and Charitable Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Ruth a Carver Foundation · Susan and Stephen Baird Family Foundation C/O Stephen W Baird · Aspen Business Center Foundation · John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found

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 Gorman Foundation Charitable Trust

How much does Gorman Foundation Charitable Trust give?
Gorman Foundation Charitable Trust reported 22 grants totaling $22,025 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Gorman Foundation Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (41%), Health (10%), Philanthropy (9%).
Who are Gorman Foundation Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Mercy Health Foundation ($3k), Food Bank of the Rockies ($2k), Roaring Fork Conservancy ($2k).
Does Gorman Foundation Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gorman Foundation Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gorman Foundation Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nm Morris Family Foundation, Alpenglow Foundation, Brady Foundation.
Where is Gorman Foundation Charitable Trust based?
Gorman Foundation Charitable Trust is based in CO.

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 54 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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