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Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation

The organization's primary mission is to support children battling cancer by funding programs that improve patients' quality of life, treatment programs that increase survivorship, and pediatric medical research dedicated to finding a cure.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$7.9MAnimals$10k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $500k
  • $250k+3 grants · $850k
$225,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cincinnati Childrens Hosp$300,000
V Foundation$300,000
NMDP Foundation$250,000
PTCTC$225,000
University of Texas Health Sc$200,000
CureSearch for Childrens Can$75,000
American Society for Transpla$30,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Phoenix Childrens Hosp Found: $250k → 11%Be The Match Foundation: $350k → 11%University of Pittsburgh: $747k → 11%Childrens Hospital of Philad: $300k → 22%Memorial Sloan Kettering Ctr: $750k → 17%Dell Childrens Medical Cente: $25k → 10%University of Texas Health Sc: $200k → 16%Childrens Natl Health System: $250k → 14%PTCTC: $225k → 12%Kansas University Cancer Cent: $500k → 16%V Foundation: $308k → 8%NorthEast Foundation: $15k → 8%Atrium Health Foundation: $1.0M → 10%Riley Childrens Hospital: $561k → 16%Cincinnati Childrens Hosp: $300k → 16%American Society for Transpla: $30k → 14%Be The Match Foundation: $250k → 11%Dell Childrens Medical Ctr: $9k → 10%Childrens Natl Health System: $250k → 14%PTCTC: $100k → 12%V Foundation: $300k → 8%NorthEast Foundation: $10k → 8%Atrium Health Foundation: $50k → 10%Cincinnati Childrens Hosp: $246k → 16%NMDP Foundation: $250k → 11%PTCTC: $10k → 12%Atrium Health Foundation: $25k → 10%Be The Match Foundation: $220k → 11%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

MN
IL
NY
IN
OH
PA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
DC
TX
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 9 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$4.5M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+31%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • AH
    ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +151%
  • NF
    NMDP FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +104%
  • TV
    THE V FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $608k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $750k · revenue +82%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    one grant, 2021 · $747k · revenue +11%
  • James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $561k · revenue +82%
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
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
2
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
3
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
4
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
5
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
6
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
7
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Inc

Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…

Health
8
Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health
9
Pediatric Physician Services Inc

The corporation is organized for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, and to provide healthcare services of pediatric specialty physicians and other personnel to the patients of johns hopkins all children's hospital and…

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10
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
11
Children's Research Institute

Children's research institute dba children's national research institute conducts and promotes translational and clinical medical research and education programs that lead to improved understanding, prevention, treatment, and care of…

Health
12
Johns Hopkins All Children's Foundation Inc

Johns hopkins all children's foundation, inc. supports the mission of johns hopkins all children's hospital, inc., all children's health system, inc., all children's research institute, inc. and other 501(c)(3) organizations through…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center; the most unlike its peers is Cabarrus Healthcare Foundation. 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

17 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. 17 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,075,000 · HealthATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATIONMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $750,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERTHE V FOUNDATION: $607,900 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATIONCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $546,216 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTERCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $500,005 · HealthCHILDREN'S NATIONALUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $499,737 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTEPEDIATRIC BLOOD AND MARROW TRANSPLANT FOUNDATION INC: $335,000 · HealthPEDIATRIC BLOOD AND MARROW TRANSPLANT FOUNDATION INCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $300,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $250,000 · Health+3 more: $130,000 · HealthNMDP FOUNDATION: $1,070,000 · PhilanthropyNMDP FOUNDATIONJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: $560,646 · PhilanthropyJames Whitcomb Riley Me…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $747,273 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $284,273 · EducationARIZONA STATE …THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON: $200,000 · OtherDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $34,400 · Other
Health$4,993,858Philanthropy$1,630,646Education$1,031,546Other$234,400

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 budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,075,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION: $1,070,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $750,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $747,273 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $607,900 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: $560,646 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $546,216 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $500,005 over 2y, 35% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $499,737 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEDIATRIC BLOOD AND MARROW TRANSPLANT FOUNDATION INC: $335,000 over 3y, 57% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $284,273 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER: $75,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $34,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TRANSPLANTATION & CELLULAR THERAPY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCABARRUS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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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    Find your warmest path to Jeff Gordon Childrens 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 18 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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