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Michael S Gordon Md Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Michael S Gordon Md Charitable 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.

$1k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$260kYouth Development$221kEducation$195kRecreation & Sports$110kHealth$15kReligion$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kHuman Services$5k
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GUITARS OVER GUNS$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%FALCON SOUND ALLIANCE: $5k → 13%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MIAMI-DADE: $110k → 15%FLORIDA OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $5k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $50k → 19%TEMPLE BETH EMET: $5k → 13%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MIAMI-DADE: $60k → 15%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MIAMI-DADE: $50k → 15%LAUREN'S LIGHT: $5k → 15%MIAMI FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: $10k → 15%GUITARS OVER GUNS: $1k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - ATHLETICS: $110k → 15%FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC - UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $100k → 15%ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT - UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $55k → 15%ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT - UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $55k → 15%DONNA E SHALALA MUSICREACH PROGRAM: $50k → 15%FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC - UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $50k → 15%FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC - UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $50k → 15%THE AGAPE NETWORK: $10k → 15%ARCHDIOSESE OF MIAMI: $25k → 15%ARCHDIOSESE OF MIAMI: $10k → 15%ARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI: $5k → 15%ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$565k · 4 repeat orgs$261k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +246% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$565k
$260k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+246%
+46%

Still filing today

25%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’22
Youth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIAMI INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $220k · revenue +246%
  • FS
    FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC - UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
    3× · 2017–2019 · $200k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2019–2020 · $110k

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - ATHLETICS
    one grant, 2017 · $110k
  • DE
    DONNA E SHALALA MUSICREACH PROGRAM
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • University of Illinois Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +127%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Miami
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2
University of Florida Alumni Association Inc

The mission of the university of florida alumni association, inc. ("association") is to exclusively support and enhance the mission of the university of florida ("university") of pursuing "excellence in education and research and shaping a…

Education
3
University of South Florida Alumni Association Inc

The mission of the usf alumni association is to foster a mutually beneficial, lifelong relationship between the university and its alumni; to inspire loyalty and pride among current and future alumni; and to advocate for excellence in…

Education
4
Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc

The mission of the florida atlantic university foundation inc. is to encourage, promote, and provide funds and other resources for the benefit of florida atlantic university (a part of the florida state university system) in furtherance of…

Education
5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
Florida High School Athletic Association Inc

Operation, promotion, direction, supervision, and regulation of interscholastic athletics of member high schools in florida.

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7
Florida Medical Association Inc

The florida medical association exists to help physicians practice medicine. their goals are public policy advocacy, practice viability, being the voice of medicine, increasing value to members, and optimizing effectiveness.

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8
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
9
Florida Association of the Aia Institute of Architects Inc

Aia florida is the voice of the architecture profession.

Arts & Culture
10
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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11
Florida Grand Opera Inc

The mission of florida grand opera is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera while supporting the operations of the greater miami opera and the opera guild, inc. by expanding its reach to diverse…

Arts & Culture
12
Florida Society of Anesthesiologists

To raise the standards, public awareness, and encourage research and publications in anesthesiology

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc; the most unlike its peers is Falcon Sound Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC - UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $200,000 · OtherFROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC - UNIVERSITY OF MIAMIUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - ATHLETICS: $110,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - ATHLETICSIndividual grant recipient: $110,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDONNA E SHALALA MUSICREACH PROGRAM: $50,000 · OtherDONNA E SHALALA MUSICREACH PROGRAMIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+4 more: $20,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIAMI INC: $220,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIAMI IN…+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $50,000 · EducationFalcon Sound Alliance Inc: $5,000 · EducationMIAMI FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureAGAPE NETWORK INC: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$525,000Youth Development$221,000Education$55,000Arts & Culture$15,000Crime & Legal$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIAMI INC: $220,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGAPE NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFalcon Sound Alliance Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFLORIDA OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Michael S Gordon Md Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael S Gordon Md Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Agape Network Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Michael S Gordon Md Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Michael S Gordon Md Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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