· Private foundation
Michael and Deborah Gordon Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of MICHAEL AND DEBORAH GORDON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
Anchored by a single position — about 98% of reported assets are held in Cnb.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ROCHESTER | $8,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE | $7,000 |
| WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL OF ROCHESTER | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER | $5,000 |
| EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES | $3,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER | $3,000 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE | $2,500 |
| TEMPLE BRITH KODESH | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| NORTHEAST BULLDOGS YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION INC | $2,500 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Michael and Deborah Gordon Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +65% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- WPWXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +31%
EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +92%- JSJEWISH SENIOR LIFE2× · 2021–2022 · $4k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- FOFOUNDATION OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTERone grant, 2020 · $25k
- RROCSTRONGone grant, 2021 · $5k
- TBTEMPLE B'RITH KODESH - PRESIDENTone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
To improve the health, well being, and quality of life of our jewish community's elderly, as well as that of our general community, being mindful of the values implicit in our jewish heritage.
Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.
Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.
To empower new yorkers, providing integrated mental health and social services with compassion and expertise.
To enrich lives, build community, and inspire jewish journeys.
Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.
Westchester jewish community services (wjcs) is a non-sectarian, not for profit, broad based human service agency dedicated to helping people of all ages cope with emotional, cognitive, environmental, physical, social, and educational…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
To enrich the lives of individuals and families from all backgrounds and strengthen the community by providing compassionate, collaborative human services, guided by jewish values.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
Jewish Family Service of Rockland County, Inc., doing business as Rockland Jewish Family Service (The Agency), located in West Nyack, New York, provides counseling services, support groups, family life education, holocaust support…
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of Greater Rochester Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ukrainian Patriot Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 33 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER NY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC ↗
- Who funds WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SENIOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SENIOR LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds UKRAINIAN PATRIOT INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Center for Youth Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc ↗
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: Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Myron S & Helen K Silver Family Foundation · CornellWeinstein Family Foundation · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Gordon & Marjorie Present Charitable Foundation · Louis S & Molly B Wolk Foundation · Harold & Joan Feinbloom Family 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 Michael and Deborah Gordon Charitable Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% 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.