· Private foundation
The David and Lauren Gorter 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $37,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $42,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lake Forest College | $15,000 |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago Foundation | $10,000 |
| Lake Forest Academy | $2,500 |
| Church of the Holy Spirit | $2,000 |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $1,500 |
| Northwestern Memorial Foundation | $1,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Martin County Inc | $1,000 |
| The Ragdale Foundation | $1,000 |
| Lake Forest Country Day School | $1,000 |
| National Outdoor Leadership School | $1,000 |
| Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Foundation | $1,000 |
| American Writers Museum | $500 |
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.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
Lake Forest College2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +29%- LFLAKE FOREST ACADEMY3× · 2019–2024 · $8k · revenue +45%
- LFLAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL2× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- LCLURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $13k
- TOTHE OVERLAKE SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +107%
- COCHURCH OF HOLY SPIRITone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
We create confident learners who lead lives of intellectual curiosity, self-knowledge, and social responsibility.
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…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
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.
We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The waldorf school of lexington nurtures each child's curiosity, ingenuity, and love of learning so that they can meet the future with wonder, confidence, and resilience.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Forest College and the most unlike its peers is Bissell Pet Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 28 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 Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation ↗
- Who funds Lake Forest College ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE OVERLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds Almost Home Kids ↗
- Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds Ragdale Foundation ↗
- Who funds BISSELL Pet Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST LACROSSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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.
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