· Private foundation
Peggy & Yale Gordon Charitable Trust
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $336k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALTIMORE HEBREW CONGREGATION | $35,000 |
| JCC OF GREATER BALTIMORE | $32,500 |
| PEABODY INSTITUTE AT JOHNS HOPKINS | $30,000 |
| SHRIVER HALL CONCERT SERIES | $30,000 |
| BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $30,000 |
| HAR SINAI-OHEB SHALOM CONGREGATION | $28,000 |
| HAR SINAI-OHEB SHALOM CONGREGATION | $28,000 |
| TOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PIKESVILLE ARMORY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| PIKESVILLE ARMORY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BACH CONCERT SERIES | $12,000 |
| IRIS MUSIC PROJECT | $10,000 |
| STEVENSON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| MARYLAND OPERA COMPANY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $400k · revenue +49%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BALTIMORE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $215k · revenue +32%
- TUTOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $187k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMOREone grant, 2023 · $25k
- CACHIZUK AMUNO CONGREGATIONone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
Opera baltimore creates a thrilling, meaningful shared experience between our audience and our artists. our streamlined format focuses on the primary element of opera: the unamplified human voice. featuring top flight professional opera…
Candlelight concerts mission is to enrich the quality of life by presenting world class concerts and educational programs in howard county as maryland's premier performing arts series.
Columbia Orchestra's mission is to foster lifelong appreciation of, enthusiasm for, and participation in music.
The Maryland Choral Society strives to be a leading force in the advocacy and enhancement of the choral arts, to cultivate educational opportunities, to nurture intergenerational experiences, and to create musical excellence throughout…
To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…
The mission of maryland opera, inc is (1) the promotion, production and performance in a variety of venues, of live opera experiences to audiences of all ages and backgrounds, (11) the creation and continuation of opera education and…
None
The primary purpose of the Art Music Society is to support musicians at the start of their professional careers by creating performing, recording, and publishing opportunities for performing artists, composers, theorists, musicologists,…
To engage our community in a life more beautiful through the shared experience and transformative impact of chamber music, by arranging diverse and compelling programs by exceptional artists at affordable prices, and by presenting new…
The organization performs choral and choral-orchestral music of highest artistic integrity, specializing in baroque, classical and early romantic styles, to sustain the art form and enrich the lives of baltimore area residents through…
The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 24 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 BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds TOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHRIVER HALL CONCERT SERIES INC ↗
- Who funds Bach Concert Series Inc ↗
- Who funds PIKESVILLE ARMORY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEVENSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STEINWAY SERIES AT SILO HILL INC ↗
- Who funds HAVRE DE GRACE ARTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds IRIS MUSIC PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONCERTS AT SECOND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CHORUS OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 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: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The William G Baker Jr Memorial Fund · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Arthur F and Isadora Dellheim Foundation Inc · Herbert Bearman Foundation · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · Center for Jewish Education Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Peggy & Yale Gordon Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peggy & Yale Gordon Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pikesville Armory Foundation Inc: 39% of income from government
- Havre De Grace Arts Collective Inc: 21% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
- Community Concerts at Second Inc: 9% of income from government
- Shriver Hall Concert Series Inc: 9% of income from government
- Stevenson University: 6% of income from government
- Iris Music Project: 3% of income from government
- Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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