· Private foundation
The Gordon 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC | $65,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC | $25,000 |
| YESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| CONGREGATION SHIR HA-MA'ALOT | $5,000 |
| OCEANAORG | $5,000 |
| HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $1,540 |
| LIVE LIKE NOAH FOUNDATION | $1,041 |
| ORANGE COUNTY UNITED WAY | $1,040 |
| CONGREGATION SHIR HA-MA'ALOT | $1,000 |
| LION'S HEART | $1,000 |
| JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DTCARE | $250 |
| ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION | $88 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SHSAGE HILL SCHOOL5× · 2017–2022 · $168k · revenue +70%
- CFCHOC FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2023 · $16k · revenue +53%
- OFORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- HHHARKHAM HILLEL HEBREW ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $18k
- TBTEMPLE BETH EL OF LAGUNA NIGUELone grant, 2021 · $15k
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +41%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To nurture, advance and protect the health and well-being of children.
Octane connects people and ideas with capital and resources to fuel technology growth in orange county. our members represent orange county technology executive leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, venture capitalists, academicians, and…
The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Live Like Noah Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SAGE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds SAMUELI ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds Live Like Noah Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds TILLY'S LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Lion's Heart ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds PATRICK'S PURPOSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DTCare ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County · Samueli Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organization The Gordon 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.
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 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.
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