· Private foundation
The Edward 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
97% of The Edward S Gordon Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Edward S Gordon Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $93k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $40,000 |
| YOUNG ISRAEL OF HARRISON | $20,000 |
| Duvdevan Foundation | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NJOP | $5,000 |
| Gilda's Club Westchester | $4,750 |
| Mesivta Yeshiva R Chaim Berlin | $1,000 |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research | $1,000 |
| The Good Dog Foundation | $900 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE4× · 2018–2021 · $138k · revenue +29%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES7× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +53%- GEGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC3× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
- TMTenement Museumone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.
We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
The fund's primary exempt mission is to solicit grants and contributions to support the educational mission of the bar-ilan university's azrieli faculty of medicine in the galilee.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Friends of united hatzalah, inc .(fouh) raises and provides funding to not-for-profit organizations that provide medical and trauma-related first responder services in israel and around the world. fouh focuses the majority of its support…
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
To support, benefit, and assist yeshivat netiv hadaat- jerusalem
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 47 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 JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds HARRISON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER NY & CT INC ↗
- Who funds New England College ↗
- Who funds DANNY & RONS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds AVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SALLIE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GVNGorg ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER 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: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Edward S Gordon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edward S Gordon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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