Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Gordon Charter Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 77
- Grants FY2025
- 77
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 62 to 78
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Gordon Charter Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 75 | $1.2M | 24% |
| FY2024 | 77 | $1.1M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $987k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 67 | $1.0M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 78 | $1.1M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 62 | $938k | 98% |
| FY2019 | 75 | $883k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lankenau Medical Center Foundation | $390,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lankenau Institute for Medical Research | $125,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Hickman Friends Senior Community of West Chester | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Face to Face Inc | $90,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Project Home | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Family Promise Montco Pa | $80,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Breastcancerorg | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pa | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 220 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($775k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gordon Charter Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Connelly Foundation · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Barra Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Gordon Charter Foundation
- How much does The Gordon Charter Foundation give?
- The Gordon Charter Foundation reported 77 grants totaling $1,234,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 62 and 78 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Gordon Charter Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Human Services (23%), Education (15%).
- Who are The Gordon Charter Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Lankenau Medical Center Foundation ($390k), Blood Cancer United Inc ($150k), Lankenau Institute for Medical Research ($125k).
- Does The Gordon Charter Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gordon Charter Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Gordon Charter Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, W W Smith Charitable Trust, Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw.
- Where is The Gordon Charter Foundation based?
- The Gordon Charter Foundation is based in PA.
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