· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE | $2,500 |
| NORTHEAST BULLDOGS YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION INC | $2,500 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| TEMPLE BRITH KODESH | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Michael and Deborah Gordon Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 85%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 UKRAINIAN PATRIOT INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Center for Youth Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Michael and Deborah Gordon Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael and Deborah Gordon Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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