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The David and Lauren Gorter Foundation at a glance

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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.

$42k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$41kHealth$32kHuman Services$15kReligion$5kEnvironment$2kArts & Culture$2kRecreation & Sports$1kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $41,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $42,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lake Forest College$15,000
Ann & Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago Foundation$10,000
Lake Forest Academy$2,500
Lake Forest Academy$2,500
Church of the Holy Spirit$2,000
Children's Hospital Corporation$1,500
Lake Forest Country Day School$1,000
National Outdoor Leadership School$1,000
Lake Forest Country Day School$1,000
The Ragdale Foundation$1,000
Boys & Girls Club of Martin County Inc$1,000
Northwestern Memorial Foundation$1,000
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Foundation$1,000
American Writers Museum$500
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$68k · 6 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
16

Total granted

$68k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+35%

Still filing today

83%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’22’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Lake Forest College
    2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +29%
  • LF
    LAKE FOREST ACADEMY
    3× · 2019–2024 · $10k · revenue +45%
  • LF
    LAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    2× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • LC
    LURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $13k
  • TO
    THE OVERLAKE SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +107%
  • NM
    NORTHWESTERN MEDICINE LAKE FOREST HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
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.

03Its field

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.

1
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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2
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Breck School

We create confident learners who lead lives of intellectual curiosity, self-knowledge, and social responsibility.

Education
5
University of New Haven

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…

Education
6
Marine Biological Laboratory

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…

Science & Tech
7
Furman University

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.

Education
8
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

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…

Health
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
The Waldorf School Inc

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.

Education
11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
Washburn University Foundation

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Forest College; 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.
03the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Lake Forest College: $19,500 · EducationLake Forest CollegeLAKE FOREST ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationLAKE FOREST ACADEMYTHE OVERLAKE SCHOOL: $6,000 · EducationTHE OVERLAKE SCHOOL+2 more: $2,000 · EducationAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $27,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's H…Children's Hospital Corporation: $1,500 · Health+3 more: $2,500 · Health+3 moreLURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $12,500 · OtherLURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONLAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $7,000 · OtherLAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLCHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $3,500 · OtherCHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT+9 more: $9,000 · Other+9 moreTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM: $1,000 · Arts & CultureRagdale Foundation: $1,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $1,000 · EnvironmentLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $250 · EnvironmentBISSELL Pet Foundation: $1,000 · PhilanthropyAlmost Home Kids: $1,000 · Human Services
Education$37,500Health$31,000Other$32,000Arts & Culture$2,000Environment$1,250Philanthropy$1,000Human Services$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $27,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLake Forest College: $19,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE FOREST ACADEMY: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OVERLAKE SCHOOL: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRagdale Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBISSELL Pet Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlmost Home Kids: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE FOREST LACROSSE ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Chicago Community…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Ayco Charitable F…AbbVie FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…The Bank of America C…
The Chicago Community TrustIL13.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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Find your warmest path to The David and Lauren Gorter 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.

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 28 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $45k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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