How much did THE GORDON CHARTER FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of THE GORDON CHARTER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

meetingtherapeuticrecoverylearning labralstonfreshbound

2020

patron subsidyresearch approachescounselingemergency sheltershelter hotlinevalleycapital

2021

adult activitymercygirlsmusic therapyfacefuturescancer

2022

advocacymain linevalleycapitalmedical

2023

depauldirectnorthfaceactivitiesmercyfutures

2024

linedeafvalleycoatesvilleseniorsoutreachdental

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k6 grants · $37k
$10k–50k70 grants · $1.0M
$50k–250k2 grants · $110k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$27M

Total assets

Largest grants

LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$60,000
THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$50,000
PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$26,000
BAKER INDUSTRIES INC$25,000
BETHESDA PROJECT$25,000
SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC$25,000
NORTHERN CHILDRENS SERVICES$25,000
OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$25,000
ALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC$25,000
MAINE LINE MEALS ON WHEELS$25,000
HOME OF THE SPARROW$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA$25,000
THE PHILADELPHIA ACADEMIES INC$20,000
SHARING EXCESS$20,000
PAR RECYCLE-WORKS$20,000

02The need

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 (FY19–24, $997k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 42% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.6M · 124 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

124 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

124

Total granted

$4.6M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+48%

Still filing today

70%

61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $360k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther

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

LI
LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
3× · 2019–2022 · $125k · revenue +31%
BP
BETHESDA PROJECT
3× · 2019–2024 · $75k · revenue +19%
FT
FACE TO FACE
3× · 2019–2023 · $65k · revenue +64%

Funded once

OM
OLD MANS HOME OF PHILADELPHIA DBA SAUNDERS HOUSE
one grant, 2021 · $36k
WC
WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES
one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -53%
UC
UPLIFT CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDRENgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +75%

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.

Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. strives to build a stronger workforce through career, skills training, employment services for career seekers, business services for employers, and labor market insights for smart workforce solutions and innovation.

Employment

Philadelphia Chinatown Development

Pcdc provides bilingual, culturally sensitive assistance and services to clients in philadelphia's chinatown neighborhood

Community Improvement

The Baptist Home of Philadelphia

Dedicated to providing quality continuing care living facilities and support services in a christian environment respecting the dignity and sanctity of all individuals.

Human Services

Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Fighting hunger, improving lives, strengthening communities.

Food & Nutrition

The Philadelphia Center

Empower those living with hiv, eliminate new hiv transmissions, and enhance community wellness.

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Connections Work

Provides services, support and community reintegration to individuals in the justice system

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The Philadelphia School

See schedule o the philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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Northeast Community Center for

Deliver mental health/intellectual disability services to the people of northeast philadelphia. the organization services approximately 1,854 clients.

Human Services

Hospice of Central Pennsylvania

The mission of hospice of central pennsylvania is to provide the highest quality of emotional, physical, and spiritual support with compassion and respect.

Human Services

Community Action Commission

Community action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.

Human Services

Action Wellness

Provide broad range of services to people in philadelphia infected and affected by the hiv disease and other chronic illnesses.

Health

Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation

Pvcc's mission is to enhance the experience to visitors to philadelphia by providing exceptional customer service and access to all that the city has to offer.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pathways to Housing - Pa and the most unlike its peers is Drexel University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/164

the rest of the field

12%

2,131/18,086

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

163 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

162/163

Grantees still filing

137/163

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,084,000Human Services$1,061,500Health$815,000Education$558,500Housing & Shelter$237,500Youth Development$182,500Food & Nutrition$137,000

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

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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA153.7× affinity112 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · Phillies Charities Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation THE GORDON CHARTER FOUNDATION 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: IHM CENTER FOR LITERACY AND GED.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~17 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 232642548 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on IHM CENTER FOR LITERACY AND GED, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 17 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Gordon Charter Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Gordon Charter Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE GORDON CHARTER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

163 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Gordon Charter Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE GORDON CHARTER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

163 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Gordon Charter Foundation?

More from the funding graph