How much does Myron L and Claire B Gordon Foundation Inc give?

Myron L and Claire B Gordon Foundation Inc reported 32 grants totaling $476,740 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 37 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does Myron L and Claire B Gordon Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), Education (30%), Public Safety & Disaster (18%).

Who are Myron L and Claire B Gordon Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: The Trustees of Princeton University ($8k), Back to School Shop Inc ($5k), Sandy Hook Promise Foundation ($3k).

Does Myron L and Claire B Gordon Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Myron L and Claire B Gordon Foundation Inc 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 Myron L and Claire B Gordon Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.

Where is Myron L and Claire B Gordon Foundation Inc based?

Myron L and Claire B Gordon Foundation Inc is based in CT.

Myron L and Claire B Gordon Foundation Inc

Myron L and Claire B Gordon Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Myron L and Claire B Gordon Foundation Inc

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.

$477k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$413k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$417kEducation$261kPublic Safety & Disaster$153kHealth$15kHousing & Shelter$7kCivil Rights$4kInternational$4kCrime & Legal$3kOther$0

02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k27 grants · $14k
$10k–50k4 grants · $50k
$250k+1 grant · $413k

$500

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FAIRFIELD COUNTY COMMUNITY FNDTN	$412,740
FAIRFIELD WARDE HIGH SCHOOL	$15,000
FAIRFIELD LUDLOWE HIGH SCHOOL	$15,000
BASSICK HIGH SCHOOL	$10,000
JOEL BARLOW HIGH SCHOOL	$10,000
BRIDGEPORT AREA FOUNDATION RESCUE MISSION	$1,500
STAMFORD HOSPITAL FNDTN	$1,450
ST CATHERINE ACADEMY	$1,000
SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION	$1,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY	$1,000
BACK TO SCHOOL SHOP	$1,000
YALE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL	$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA	$600
AMERICARES	$500
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS	$500

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$857k · 35 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$857k

$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+38%

Still filing today

57%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationEnvironmentInternationalCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther

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

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BACK TO SCHOOL SHOP INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +28%
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +50%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +26%

Funded once

MR
MILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +86%
IM
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS
one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +7%
EC
EASTON COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $600 · revenue +44%

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.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

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

Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Easton Senior Center 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

30 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. 30 of the 60 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/30

Grantees still filing

18/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$833,990Education$18,700Health$6,450Crime & Legal$4,500International$3,500Environment$1,700Civil Rights$1,500

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.

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Myron L and Claire B Gordon Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Myron L and Claire B Gordon Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely 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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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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