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The Goodtreegordon Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$106k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
41%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$76,967
Organizations funded a year
9 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 41% of the organizations The Goodtreegordon Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesInternationalEducationArts & CultureHealthCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$86k0%
FY202317$34k41%
FY202212$29k25%
FY20219$11k11%
FY20209$18k11%
FY201913$34k23%
FY201812$34k33%
FY201710$36kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$183kCommunity Improvement$157kInternational$77kEducation$33kReligion$28kHuman Services$20kHealth$6kArts & Culture$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Masschallenge Inc$156,96771%
Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston$16,00030%
Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel$16,0003n/a
Hebrew College$10,00010%
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston Inc$9,20080%
Boston University Hillel Inc$7,00070%
Itrek Inc$4,00040%
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc$3,00060%
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger$2,08060%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$2,00020%
Show all 22 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Goodtreegordon Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMasschallenge Inc: $156,967 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Greater Boston: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston Inc: $9,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBoston University Hillel Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetItrek Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMiddle East Media and Research Institute Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $2,080 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrothers for Life: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIsraeli-American Council: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnitarian Universalist Action New Hampshire: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKav LNoar Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUyghur Human Rights Project: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerica Gives Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charitable Bureau of the Archdiocese of Boston Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shalom Hartman Institute of North America: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHonestreportingcom Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New England Friends of the March of the Living: $360 over 1y, 0.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · One8 Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Jewish Communal Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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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About The Goodtreegordon Charitable Foundation

How much does The Goodtreegordon Charitable Foundation give?
The Goodtreegordon Charitable Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $106,147 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Goodtreegordon Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (36%), Community Improvement (31%), International (15%).
Who are The Goodtreegordon Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Masschallenge Inc ($157k), Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston ($16k), Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel ($16k).
Does The Goodtreegordon Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Goodtreegordon Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Goodtreegordon Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, One8 Foundation.
Where is The Goodtreegordon Charitable Foundation based?
The Goodtreegordon Charitable Foundation is based in MA.

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 33 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.

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