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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
CLACKAMAS WOMENS SERVICES$110,000
METROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATION$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
OUR RESCUE$25,000
FAMILIES ADVOCATING FOR CAMPUS EQU$25,000
LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE$25,000
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
OR
OH
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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.

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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 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 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 PERRYSBURG HEIGHTS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗

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 Foun…The O-I Charities Fou…Toledo Community Foun…United Way of Greater…John Henry Eldred Jr …Toledo Classic IncToledo Community Foun…The Andersons Fund Su…Robert C and Susan M …Premier Bank Foundati…Walter E Terhune Memo…The Stranahan Support…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gorski Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gorski Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Friends of Trees: 100% of income from government
  • Clackamas Women's Services: 33% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 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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