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Steven Gordon Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
32%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,801,627
Organizations funded a year
18 to 23
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$15k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 32% of the organizations Steven Gordon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalHealthCivil RightsArts & CultureEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving16$2.1M25%
FY202322$2.2M32%
FY202220$578k30%
FY202118$729k33%
FY202019$1.4M37%
FY201921$1.4M67%
FY201820$1.9M55%
FY201723$1.1Mn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$9.3MPhilanthropy$577kScience & Tech$343kReligion$330kHealth$329kHuman Services$277kArts & Culture$143kInternational$86kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
SC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Regents Univ of California$2,278,5472n/a
Wilshire Boulevard Temple$210,0004n/a
American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc$150,00020%
Women's Guild Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$66,00052%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$50,00020%
Anti-Defamation League$50,00030%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc$50,00020%
Jazz at Aspen-Snowmass$47,10020%
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$46,50030%
Tower Cancer Research Foundation$37,50070%
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All grantees of Steven Gordon Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Regents Univ of California$2,278,5472n/a
Wilshire Boulevard Temple$210,0004n/a
American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc$150,00020%
Women's Guild Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$66,00052%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$50,00020%
Anti-Defamation League$50,00030%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc$50,00020%
Jazz at Aspen-Snowmass$47,10020%
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$46,50030%
Tower Cancer Research Foundation$37,50070%
Hillel at Ucla$20,00010%
American Youth Symphony Inc$20,00041%
Vista del Mar Child and Family Services$20,00020%
Washington Institute for Near East Policy$20,00010%
The Maple Counseling Center$15,00030%
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service$15,00060%
Beit T'Shuvah$15,00020%
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America$13,00030%
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc$10,50070%
Central Fund of Israel$10,00010%
Phase One Foundation$10,00010%
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts$7,50010%
Jewish Free Loan Association$5,50020%
Los Angeles Police Foundation$5,16010%
Los Angeles Waterkeeper$5,00010%
Children's Burn Foundation$5,00010%
Friends of Elnet$5,00010%
Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging$5,00010%
Exceptional Children's Foundation$5,00010%
College Match$5,0001n/a
Ubuntu Pathways Inc$5,00010%
Our House$4,5003n/a
Students Run America$2,50010%
Chp 11-99 Foundation$2,5001n/a
Concern Foundation$2,50020%
The Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Awareness$2,00020%
Rotary International District 5130$2,00010%
Camp Ramah in California Inc$1,50010%
Los Angeles Police Museum$1,00010%
Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills$1,0001n/a
One Family Fund$1,00010%
Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc$1,00010%
The Los Angeles Free Clinic$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Steven Gordon Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Guild Cedars-Sinai Medical Center: $66,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJazz at Aspen-Snowmass: $47,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $46,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTower Cancer Research Foundation: $37,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHillel at Ucla: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Youth Symphony Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetVista del Mar Child and Family Services: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Institute for Near East Policy: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Maple Counseling Center: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDidi Hirsch Psychiatric Service: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Shalom Hartman Institute of North America: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc: $10,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhase One Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Free Loan Association: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles Police Foundation: $5,160 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLos Angeles Waterkeeper: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Burn Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Elnet: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetExceptional Children's Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUbuntu Pathways Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStudents Run America: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConcern Foundation: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Awareness: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRotary International District 5130: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCamp Ramah in California Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Police Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOne Family Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeart of Los Angeles Youth Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Los Angeles Free Clinic: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 37.

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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.

California Community FoundationCA21.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation · Hyman Levine Family Foundation L'Dor V'Dor · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · The Ahmanson Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · David & Janet Polak Foundation · David & Sylvia Weisz Foundation · The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Group

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.

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How do I get to Steven Gordon Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Steven Gordon Family 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.

About Steven Gordon Family Foundation

How much does Steven Gordon Family Foundation give?
Steven Gordon Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $2,060,227 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Steven Gordon Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (80%), Philanthropy (5%), Science & Tech (3%).
Who are Steven Gordon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Regents Univ of California ($2.3M), Wilshire Boulevard Temple ($210k), American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc ($150k).
Does Steven Gordon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Steven Gordon Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Steven Gordon Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation.
Where is Steven Gordon Family Foundation based?
Steven Gordon Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 79 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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