Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Joseph N Gorson 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.
- $35k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $464k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Joseph N Gorson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $32k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $37k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $37k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $37k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $18k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $25k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $30k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $28k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Har Zion Temple | $27,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Congregation Beth El Ner Tamid | $24,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Jewish Family & Children's Service of Greater Philadelphia | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $9,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish Relief Agency | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends Central School Corporation | $5,200 | 3 | n/a |
| American Heart Association Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Jack M Barrack Hebrew Academy | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Philabundance | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($148k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joseph N Gorson Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Joseph N Gorson Foundation
- How much does Joseph N Gorson Foundation give?
- Joseph N Gorson Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $35,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Joseph N Gorson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (34%), Religion (21%), Education (14%).
- Who are Joseph N Gorson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Har Zion Temple ($27k), Congregation Beth El Ner Tamid ($25k), Jewish Family & Children's Service of Greater Philadelphia ($10k).
- Does Joseph N Gorson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joseph N Gorson 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 Joseph N Gorson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Erlbaum Family Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Joseph N Gorson Foundation based?
- Joseph N Gorson Foundation is based in PA.
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