· Private foundation
Irving & Arline Gordon Memorial Fdn
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Players Foundation | $15,000 |
| Wild Bird Fund | $3,000 |
| Eleventh Hour Rescue | $3,000 |
| Whispering Willows Senior Dog sanct | $3,000 |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation | $2,500 |
| Foundation for Indiv Rights Express | $2,500 |
| American Research Center in Egypt | $2,500 |
| Desert Foothills Land Trust | $2,500 |
| University of Rochester | $1,500 |
| Muttville | $1,000 |
| Phoenix Zoo | $1,000 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| American Research Center in Egypt | $1,000 |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $600 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TPThe Players Foundation for Theatre Education7× · 2018–2024 · $51k · revenue +41%
- BHBROWN HILLEL FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +74%
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE6× · 2017–2022 · $10k · revenue +116%
Funded once
Foothills Food Bankone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%- TATHE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +233%
- N(NCJW (ARIZONA SECTION) INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +52%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
Chm decodes technology - its computing past, digital present, and future impact on humanity.
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
*increase and diffusion of knowledge* is the mission set forth by james smithson. the smithsonian endeavors to shape the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world.
The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…
Phoenix art museum creates spaces of exchange and belonging for all audiences through dynamic exhibitions, collections, and experiences with art. this mission is supported by seven strategic pillars:(continued on schedule o)1. be a space…
Impart knowledge and appreciation of humanity's relationship with wildlife through art.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Field Museum of Natural History and the most unlike its peers is Archon Foundation. 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
65 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 89 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 The Players Foundation for Theatre Education ↗
- Who funds BROWN HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DESERT FOOTHILLS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RESEARCH CENTER IN EGYPT INC ↗
- Who funds MCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEARD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Archaeology Southwest ↗
- Who funds DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Saguaro National Park ↗
- Who funds WILD BIRD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE 11TH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE INC T/A ELEVENTH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Arizona Jewish Historical Society ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Foothills Food Bank ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NCJW (ARIZONA SECTION) INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX HERPETOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Foothills Caring Corps Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Robert D Fisher Foundation Inc · Strong Foundation of New York · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · The New York Community Trust · L Roy Papp Charitable Trust · Kiwanis Club of Carefree Benefit Fd · The Jack Ingebritson Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · AbbVie Foundation
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 Irving & Arline Gordon Memorial Fdn 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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- The 11TH Hour Animal Rescue Inc T/a Eleventh Hour Animal Rescue — 0% of income from government
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.