Illinois · Private foundation
Michael and Pamela Gordon Family Foundation
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.
- $46k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2024
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 13
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $132k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Michael and Pamela Gordon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 | 9 | $46k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $104k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $112k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $25k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $9.4M | 77% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $95k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| President and Trustees of Bates College | $1,875,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Wellesley College | $1,875,000 | 1 | 1% |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $1,875,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Williams College | $1,875,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Carleton College | $1,875,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Northwestern University | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| High Jump | $83,600 | 5 | 1% |
| American Jewish Committee | $25,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Francis W Parker School | $23,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Temple Sholom of Chicago | $21,900 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($68k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Michael and Pamela Gordon Family 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: The Sidley Austin Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Michael and Pamela Gordon Family Foundation with peer funders
About Michael and Pamela Gordon Family Foundation
- How much does Michael and Pamela Gordon Family Foundation give?
- Michael and Pamela Gordon Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $46,367 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Michael and Pamela Gordon Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (97%), Recreation & Sports (1%), Arts & Culture (0%).
- Who are Michael and Pamela Gordon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: President and Trustees of Bates College ($1.9M), Wellesley College ($1.9M), President and Fellows of Middlebury College ($1.9M).
- Does Michael and Pamela Gordon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Michael and Pamela Gordon Family 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 Michael and Pamela Gordon Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sidley Austin Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Michael and Pamela Gordon Family Foundation based?
- Michael and Pamela Gordon Family Foundation is based in IL.
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