Texas · Private foundation
Meyer and Ida Gordon Foundation 2
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.
- $56k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
54% of Meyer and Ida Gordon Foundation 2’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Greater Houston, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Meyer and Ida Gordon Foundation 2 named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $56k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $12,638
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Meyer and Ida Gordon Foundation 2 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 10 | $56k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $153k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $88k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $54k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $55k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $69k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $75k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holocaust Museum Houston | $107,625 | 6 | 1% |
| Jewish Community Center of Dallas | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Covenant House Texas | $37,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Salesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc | $24,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Remind | $21,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation Beth Israel | $19,260 | 2 | n/a |
| The Forge for Families | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| MD Anderson Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Minds Matter of Houston Inc | $8,500 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($254k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Meyer and Ida Gordon Foundation 2 supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Daniel P & Annette B Gordon Foundati · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Sherry & Gerald Merfish Family Foundation · Hurwitz Family Foundation · Sally & Bernard Fuchs Charitable Foundation · Adler Foundation · The Stanford & Joan Alexander Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation
How this is measured
About Meyer and Ida Gordon Foundation 2
- How much does Meyer and Ida Gordon Foundation 2 give?
- Meyer and Ida Gordon Foundation 2 reported 10 grants totaling $56,438 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Meyer and Ida Gordon Foundation 2 fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (46%), Arts & Culture (13%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Meyer and Ida Gordon Foundation 2's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Holocaust Museum Houston ($108k), Jewish Community Center of Dallas ($60k), Covenant House Texas ($37k).
- Does Meyer and Ida Gordon Foundation 2 fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Meyer and Ida Gordon Foundation 2 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 Meyer and Ida Gordon Foundation 2?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Daniel P & Annette B Gordon Foundati.
- Where is Meyer and Ida Gordon Foundation 2 based?
- Meyer and Ida Gordon Foundation 2 is based in TX.
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