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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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of PEGGY & YALE GORDON CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $30,000 |
| PEABODY INSTITUTE AT JOHNS HOPKINS | $30,000 |
| SHRIVER HALL CONCERT SERIES | $30,000 |
| HAR SINAI-OHEB SHALOM CONGREGATION | $28,000 |
| HAR SINAI-OHEB SHALOM CONGREGATION | $28,000 |
| PIKESVILLE ARMORY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| TOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| PIKESVILLE ARMORY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BACH CONCERT SERIES | $12,000 |
| MARYLAND OPERA COMPANY | $10,000 |
| STEVENSON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| IRIS MUSIC PROJECT | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- 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
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Chamber Orchestra Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Maryland Food Bank Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Peggy & Yale Gordon Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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