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Gorski Family Foundation

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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
41
Grants FY2025
34
Organizations funded FY2024
15%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$13,300
Largest grant, FY2025
$115,000
Organizations funded a year
34 to 48
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
10
Total assets, FY2025
$19M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Gorski Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther
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 arriving39$1.0M15%
FY202434$923k15%
FY202337$901k27%
FY202241$882k20%
FY202148$809k42%
FY202039$426k51%
FY201940$394kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.2MPhilanthropy$905kEducation$831kRecreation & Sports$602kHuman Services$557kHealth$318kCrime & Legal$208kEnvironment$154kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
OR
OH
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Toledo Opera Association$757,262716%
Clackamas Women's Services$510,00052%
Metroparks Toledo Foundation$490,00045%
St Joseph Hospital of Eureka$260,0005n/a
Maumee Valley Country Day School$142,50060%
The Laguna Playhouse$140,00071%
Friends of Trees$90,00071%
The University of Toledo Foundation$80,16840%
The Conscious Alliance$76,50060%
St Catherine of Siena School$75,0005n/a
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All grantees of Gorski Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Toledo Opera Association$757,262716%
Clackamas Women's Services$510,00052%
Metroparks Toledo Foundation$490,00045%
St Joseph Hospital of Eureka$260,0005n/a
Maumee Valley Country Day School$142,50060%
The Laguna Playhouse$140,00071%
Friends of Trees$90,00071%
The University of Toledo Foundation$80,16840%
The Conscious Alliance$76,50060%
St Catherine of Siena School$75,0005n/a
The Toledo Museum of Art$62,00060%
Families Advocating for Campus Equality$61,000348%
Project Hope Alliance$58,50071%
John Carroll University$55,00070%
Laguna Art Museum$50,00050%
Our Rescue$37,50020%
The Garden Club of America$35,00070%
Friends of Okeeheelee Nature Center Inc$29,0004n/a
Rallycap Sports Inc$26,50036%
Women Who Code Inc Case #24-51556$25,50020%
Perrysburg Heights Community Association$25,00023%
National Geographic Society$25,0001n/a
United States Fund for Unicef$23,00030%
Denver Dumb Friends League$21,00030%
USA Water Ski & Wake Sports Foundation Inc$15,00023%
Perrysburg Christians United Inc$12,5002n/a
Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for$12,00031%
Toledo Society for the Blind Inc$12,00020%
Opera Laguna$10,00017%
University of Chicago$10,00010%
Sisters of Notre Dame$10,0002n/a
Perrysburg Saint John Xxii Parish$10,0001n/a
Natures Nursery Center for Wildlife Rehab & Consr$9,50041%
Girls Who Code Inc$8,4001n/a
Greater Chicago Food Depository$8,30010%
Aurora Project Inc$7,50031%
Beach House Inc$7,00030%
Baylor School$6,00020%
Ohio Water Ski Association Inc$6,0002n/a
Voice of Orange CountyOrg$5,00011%
The Victory Center$5,0001n/a
Learning Club of Toledo$5,0001n/a
St Francis Desales High School Inc$4,0001n/a
Memorial Health Care System Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Mercy Chefs Inc$2,00010%
Quilliam Foundation$2,00011%
University of Michigan$1,00010%
Syracuse University$1,00010%
Community Refugee & Immigration Services Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Gorski Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetToledo Opera Association: $757,262 over 7y, 16% of budgetClackamas Women's Services: $510,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMetroparks Toledo Foundation: $490,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetMaumee Valley Country Day School: $142,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe Laguna Playhouse: $140,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetFriends of Trees: $90,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetThe University of Toledo Foundation: $80,168 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Conscious Alliance: $76,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Toledo Museum of Art: $62,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFamilies Advocating for Campus Equality: $61,000 over 3y, 48% of budgetProject Hope Alliance: $58,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetJohn Carroll University: $55,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLaguna Art Museum: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOur Rescue: $37,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Garden Club of America: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRallycap Sports Inc: $26,500 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetWomen Who Code Inc Case #24-51556: $25,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPerrysburg Heights Community Association: $25,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Dumb Friends League: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUSA Water Ski & Wake Sports Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetChicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for: $12,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetToledo Society for the Blind Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOpera Laguna: $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNatures Nursery Center for Wildlife Rehab & Consr: $9,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $8,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAurora Project Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBeach House Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBaylor School: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVoice of Orange CountyOrg: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMemorial Health Care System Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Chefs Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQuilliam Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSyracuse University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Refugee & Immigration Services Inc: $1,000 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 37.

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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.

Toledo Community Foundation IncOH33× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · The O-I Charities Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc Seneca Fund · United Way of Greater Toledo · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · Toledo Classic Inc · Toledo Community Foundation Inc Algonquin Fund · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Walter E Terhune Memorial Fund · The Stranahan Supporting Organization

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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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.

About Gorski Family Foundation

How much does Gorski Family Foundation give?
Gorski Family Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $1,050,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 48 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Gorski Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), Philanthropy (16%), Education (15%).
Who are Gorski Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Toledo Opera Association ($757k), Clackamas Women's Services ($510k), Metroparks Toledo Foundation ($490k).
Does Gorski Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gorski Family Foundation 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 Gorski Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Toledo Community Foundation Inc, The O-I Charities Foundation, Toledo Community Foundation Inc Seneca Fund.
Where is Gorski Family Foundation based?
Gorski Family Foundation is based in OH.

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 110 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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