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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 FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$77k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $77k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASS CHALLENGE$76,967
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES$20,000
GANN ACADEMY$2,500
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL$1,500
UN WATCH$1,000
BROTHERS FOR LIFE$1,000
ITREK$1,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON$1,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL$1,000
Individual grant recipient$180
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL: $1k → 14%ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL: $500 → 14%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $10k → 8%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $5k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON: $1k → 8%UYGHUR HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$258k · 16 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
13

Total granted

$258k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+52%

Still filing today

63%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON
    3× · 2018–2024 · $16k · revenue +5%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +6%
  • BU
    BOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • HC
    HEBREW COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +17%
  • JG
    JEWISH GW
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +11%
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.

04Its 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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
3
Sherit Isroel
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4
Better Future for Israel

To strengthen israel's future in these areas: 1)providing new immigrants with assistance in a few key areas: representing them as they navigate government ministries and assisting them with their challenges as new immigrants to israel.…

Philanthropy
5
Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
6
The Jerusalem Connection
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7
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
8
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
9
University of Judaism Foundation
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10
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

Hillel's mission is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

Religion
11
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
12
New Israel Fund

The new israel fund (nif) helps israel live up to its founders' vision of a society that ensures complete equality to all its inhabitants. our aim is to advance liberal democracy, including freedom of speech and minority rights, and to…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
21/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $181,600 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater…+3 more: $5,860 · PhilanthropyMASSCHALLENGE INC: $156,967 · Community ImprovementMASSCHALLENGE INCGANN ACADEMY: $20,000 · OtherGANN ACADEMYMASORTI FOUNDATION FOR CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM IN ISRAEL: $16,000 · OtherMASORTI FOUNDATI…UN WATCH: $8,000 · OtherUN WATCHBOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INC: $7,000 · OtherBOSTON UNIVERSIT…ISRA AID: $5,860 · OtherISRA AIDJEWISH GW: $5,000 · OtherJEWISH GWTAMID GROUP: $3,500 · Other+6 more: $7,800 · Other+6 moreJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $41,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATION…JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $9,200 · InternationalJEWISH COMMUN…ITREK INC: $4,000 · InternationalITREK INCMIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $3,000 · International+2 more: $1,800 · InternationalJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $16,000 · Human ServicesISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $1,500 · Human ServicesUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ACTION NEW HAMPSHIRE: $1,000 · Human ServicesUYGHUR HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT: $1,000 · Human ServicesHEBREW COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $1,000 · EducationBrothers for Life: $2,000 · Arts & CultureHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC: $500 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$187,460Community Improvement$156,967Other$73,160International$59,000Human Services$19,500Education$13,000Arts & Culture$2,500

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 budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $181,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMASSCHALLENGE INC: $156,967 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $41,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $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
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.

Combined Jewish Phila…Jewish Federation of …One8 FoundationJewish Community Foun…Jewish Communal FundBoston Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Goodtreegordon Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Goodtreegordon Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Masschallenge Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Goodtreegordon Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Goodtreegordon Charitable 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 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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