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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 FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Arts & Culture$1.2MPhilanthropy$905kEducation$831kRecreation & Sports$602kHuman Services$557kHealth$318kCrime & Legal$208kEnvironment$154kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $440k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $550k
$13,300
Median grant
10
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH$115,000
METROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATION$110,000
CLACKAMAS WOMENS SERVICES$110,000
TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION INC$105,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA$60,000
ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL$50,000
MAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$45,500
CANBY HIGH SCHOOL$30,000
VALENTINE THEATRE$30,000
GREATER TOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$28,500
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY$25,000
LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE$25,000
OUR RESCUE$25,000
FAMILIES ADVOCATING FOR CAMPUS EQU$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $528k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CLACKAMAS WOMENS SERVICES: $110k → 8%MERCY CHEFS: $2k → 20%Clackamas Womens Services: $100k → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMENS SERVICES: $100k → 8%COMMUNITY REFUGEE & IMMIGRATION SERVICES: $1k → 15%Clackamas Womens Services: $100k → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMENS SERVICES: $100k → 8%GIRLS WHO CODE: $8k → 17%Beach House: $3k → 18%Beach House: $3k → 18%Beach House: $2k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.9M · 59 repeat orgs$426k to everyone else

59 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
44

Total granted

$4.9M
$369k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+127%

Still filing today

49%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TO
    TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $757k · revenue +27%
  • CW
    CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES
    5× · 2021–2025 · $510k · revenue +139%
  • MT
    METROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $490k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • SA
    St Ann Catholic Church
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
  • UC
    UT Center for Family Business
    one grant, 2021 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
5
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
6
United Way of Greater Toledo

United way of greater toledo unites the caring power of people to improve lives.

Philanthropy
7
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
11
Ohio State Bar Association

The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.

12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLand Conservation Organizat…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Public University Foundatio…Community Arts OrganizationsIndependent K-8 SchoolsAffordable Housing Developm…Animal Rescue and AdoptionFood Pantries & AssistanceCancer Support OrganizationsLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Community Health CentersElementary Literacy TutoringWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Ice Hockey ProgramsCommunity FoundationsClassical Music Ensembles
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 51 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%47%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%43%35–55yr16%43%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,515

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.

04the grantee network

45 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 110 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/45
Grantees still filing
29/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

METROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATION — $490,000 · OtherMETROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA — $365,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDAST JOSEPH HOSPITAL OF EUREKA — $260,000 · OtherST JOSEPH HOSPITAL OF EUREKACOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH — $245,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACHCanby High School — $220,000 · OtherCanby High SchoolValentine Theatre — $171,500 · OtherValentine TheatreCHILDREN ADVOCACY CENTER — $116,000 · Other+74 more — $1,233,632 · Other+74 moreTOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION — $757,262 · Arts & CultureTOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIAT…THE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE — $140,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSETHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART — $62,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF …LAGUNA ART MUSEUM — $50,000 · Arts & CultureOUR RESCUE — $37,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES — $510,000 · Human ServicesCLACKAMAS …+4 more — $18,400 · Human ServicesMAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $142,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION — $80,168 · EducationProject Hope Alliance — $58,500 · EducationJohn Carroll University — $55,000 · EducationNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $25,000 · Education+6 more — $39,000 · EducationTOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $292,365 · PhilanthropyFriends of Trees — $90,000 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA — $35,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF OKEEHEELEE NATURE CENTER INC — $29,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE — $76,500 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $8,300 · Food & Nutrition
Other$3,101,132Arts & Culture$1,071,762Human Services$528,400Education$400,168Philanthropy$292,365Environment$154,000Food & Nutrition$84,800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetTOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $292,365 over 7y, 0.2% 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 budgetTOLEDO SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetChicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for — $12,000 over 3y, 0.6% 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 budgetQUILLIAM FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY REFUGEE & IMMIGRATION SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES
  • Who funds METROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds TOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL OF EUREKA
  • Who funds MAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
  • Who funds THE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE
  • Who funds Friends of Trees
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE
  • Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds FAMILIES ADVOCATING FOR CAMPUS EQUALITY
  • Who funds Project Hope Alliance
  • Who funds John Carroll University
  • Who funds LAGUNA ART MUSEUM
  • Who funds OUR RESCUE
  • Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF OKEEHEELEE NATURE CENTER INC
  • Who funds RALLYCAP SPORTS INC
  • Who funds WOMEN WHO CODE INC CASE #24-51556
  • Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
  • Who funds PERRYSBURG HEIGHTS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
  • Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE

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.

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

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 Gorski Family Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 100%
  • Friends of Trees100% of income from government
  • Clackamas Women's Services33% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Gorski Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gorski Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 110 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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