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The Donald E Gordon Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$81k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0169% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$190kHuman Services$121kCommunity Improvement$120kHousing & Shelter$38kHealth$5kOther$212k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$616k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$20,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY$20,000
JARC$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE INC$5,000
BETH EL CONGREGATION$5,000
KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE$5,000
HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND$5,000
ROSIE'S PLACE$5,000
BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC$2,500
THE JACOB ISAAC RAPPAPORT FOUNDATION$2,500
THANK ISRAELI SOLDIERS$500
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC: $10k → 11%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC: $8k → 11%House of Ruth Maryland: $5k → 19%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $5k → 19%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC: $5k → 11%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $5k → 19%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC: $5k → 11%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $5k → 19%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC: $3k → 11%House of Ruth Maryland: $5k → 19%Baltimore Hunger Project LLC: $2k → 11%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $5k → 19%Baltimore Hunger Project LLC: $2k → 11%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $5k → 19%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC: $2k → 11%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $5k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE INC: $5k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE INC: $5k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE INC: $5k → 19%Ronald McDonald House Charities of Baltimore Inc: $5k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE INC: $5k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE INC: $5k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE INC: $5k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE INC: $5k → 19%Ronald McDonald House Charities of Baltimore Inc: $5k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 16% of The Donald E Gordon Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Donald E Gordon Charitable Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$495k · 10 repeat orgs$1k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
1

Total granted

$495k
$500

Still filing today

60%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterHealthOther

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

  • TH
    THE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +26%
  • RP
    ROSIE'S PLACE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +93%
  • BH
    BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue ×14

Funded once

  • BF
    BIRTHRIGHT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $500

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Ronald Mcdonald House of New York Inc

Our mission is to provide a strong, caring and seamless circle of support for patients of pediatric cancer and other complex illnesses and their families. in recent years rmhny has expanded its footprint across the boroughs and extended…

Health
2
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte (RMHC of GC) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. Charlotte is recognized as a leading destination…

Human Services
3
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Nashville Tennessee Inc

To keep families close by providing essential resources and a home-away-from-home for families of critically ill children receiving inpatient or outpatient medical care at a nashville area hospital.

Health
4
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Wichita Inc

To provide vital resources and compassionate care to children and their families being served by community health care providers.

Health
5
Ronald Mcdonald House of Central & Northern New Jersey Inc

Provide a "home away from home" for the families of seriously ill children receiving care at medical facilities near their locations in new brunswick, neptune and long branch, new jersey.

6
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Oregon and Southwest Washington

The organization provides a "home away from home" to families with seriously ill children, and supports initiatives to improve pediatric health.

Health
7
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Greater Washongton Dc Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

Health
8
Ronald McDonald House Charities - Upper Midwest

We, in partnership with our community, provide a comfortable and caring home away from home that supports keeping families together and reduces stress during a child's serious illness.

Health
9
Ronald McDonald House Charities New York Metro Inc

Our Mission is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

10
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of the Inland Northwest

Ronald mcdonald house charities of the inland northwest provides temporary lodging, social and emotional support, at no charge, for families of children accessing medical services.

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Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Jacksonville Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of jacksonville is a 501(c3) organization that supports the health and well-being of children by providing lodging, meals, transportation and a community of compassionate care to critically ill children and…

Health
12
Rogers Behavioral Health System Inc

Our vision:we envision a future where people have the tools to rise above the challenges of mental illness, addiction, and stigma to lead healthy lives. we bring this vision to life by constantly elevating the standard for behavioral…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rosie's Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jacob Isaac Rappoport Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

7 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
3/7
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JARC — $82,500 · OtherJARCBETH EL CONGREGATION — $75,000 · OtherBETH EL CONGREGATIONKENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE INC — $45,000 · OtherKENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE INCISRAEL TENNIS & EDUCATION CENTER — $8,000 · Other+2 more — $1,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $190,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUS…THE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MA…BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC — $36,000 · Human ServicesBALTIMORE HUNGER PRO…Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc — $120,000 · Community ImprovementBoca Raton Regional…ROSIE'S PLACE INC — $38,000 · Housing & ShelterJACOB ISAAC RAPPOPORT FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Health
Other$211,500Philanthropy$190,000Human Services$121,000Community Improvement$120,000Housing & Shelter$38,000Health$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $190,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc — $120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC — $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $38,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC — $36,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budget
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC
  • Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC
  • Who funds THE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC
  • Who funds BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC
  • Who funds JACOB ISAAC RAPPOPORT FOUNDATION INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Donald E Gordon Charitable Foundation Inc 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 31%
  • The House of Ruth Maryland Inc31% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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