· Private foundation
The Allan S Gordon Foundation
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $563k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE TRUST | $350,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY | $150,991 |
| TREVOR DAY SCHOOL | $113,615 |
| AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY | $90,000 |
| FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION | $83,333 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $75,000 |
| MT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE- JAFFE FOOD ALLERGY | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY | $45,187 |
| SILVER HILL HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| MANHATTAN INSTITUE FOR POLICY RESEARCH | $25,000 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| WESTCHESTER LAND FUND | $5,000 |
| EAST 86TH STREET MERCHANTSRESIDENTS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| BROTHERHOOD SYNAGOGUE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of The Allan S Gordon Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 45% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 41%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FFFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +147%
- TDTrevor Day School9× · 2017–2025 · $606k · revenue +29%
- FAFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $481k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES-SAFETY FUNDone grant, 2019 · $50k
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%- TQTHE QUAD PREPARATORY SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +206%
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 42 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 Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
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- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds WRITOPIA LAB INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP BLUE SPRUCE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE QUAD PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK MATH CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds KITTYKIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION AGAINST INTOLERANCE & RACISM INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROADWAY LEAGUE FOUNDATION 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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Allan S Gordon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Allan S Gordon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Silver Hill Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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