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The Gordon Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$129k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$279kHealth$146kPhilanthropy$108kReligion$102kYouth Development$67kHuman Services$63kEnvironment$18kRecreation & Sports$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $67k
$1,750
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$31,250
OLE HEALTH$18,000
TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM$18,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN NEVADA$8,500
GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA$8,000
JEWISH NEVADA$5,250
ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL$5,000
TYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION$5,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS$5,000
NELLIS SUPPORT TEAM$4,500
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$2,500
GIVE MENTOR LOVE FDN$2,500
NEVADA CENTER FOR HUMANITY$2,500
USHMM$2,000
TRINI FOUNDATION$1,750
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE UNFORGETTABLES FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 14%THE UNFORGETTABLES FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%THE UNFORGETTABLES FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 14%GIVE MENTOR LOVE FDN: $3k → 14%HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $3k → 13%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE FDN: $1k → 13%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE FDN: $1k → 13%HOPE FOR PRISONERS: $1k → 13%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA: $3k → 13%PROJECT 150: $1k → 13%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS: $5k → 13%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS: $5k → 13%RAISE THE FUTURE: $3k → 13%THE CUPCAKE GIRLS: $500 → 13%SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
KS
DC
GA

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.

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$374k · 41 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
72

Total granted

$374k
$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+24%

Still filing today

68%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TR
    TYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +11%
  • TJ
    THE JUST ONE PROJECT
    3× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +84%
  • IC
    ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL
    3× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +64%
  • TF
    THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +10%

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.

1
Healthy Nevada
Health
2
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Northern Nv

Our mission is to be an innovative regional leader in responsible treatment of homeless dogs and cats, primarily through their rescue and placement in forever loving homes and by promoting spaying and neutering to control pet…

Unclassified
3
Safe Nesttemporary Assistance for

Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.

Human Services
4
Children's Advocacy Center

Our mission is to help and heal children and their families who have been traumatized by abuse and neglect. because every child deserves a voice, we provide vital services when they need it the most.

Human Services
5
Community Action Against Rape

Offering hope, help and healing to those affected by sexual violence and exploitation. making an impact in the core services of: prevention, education, advocacy and counseling.

Crime & Legal
6
Womens Resource Medical Centers

Women's resource medical centers of southern nevada (wrmcsn) is a community-based, faith-driven not for profit 501 (c) 3 organization that exists to support pregnant women with medical care and resources to ensure healthy and thriving…

Health
7
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

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.

Health
8
Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas

Habitat for humanity las vegas, inc. (habitat) a not-for-profit organization located in las vegas, nevada was established in 1990. habitat's purpose is to build low cost houses with the help of the homeowner families, which are transferred…

Housing & Shelter
9
Bikur Cholim

Bikur cholim organizes and subsidizes medical treatment, speech and physical therapy, medication, durable medical equipment, blood products, homecare, transportation, housing for patients and family-members, meals, and diagnostics while…

Health
10
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service

The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…

Health
11
The Heart Foundation

The heart foundation (thf) was created to save lives from heart disease by increasing awareness, educating the public, and supporting innovative research at smidt heart institute at cedars-sinai medical center in los angeles, california.…

Philanthropy
12
New Vista Ranch Inc

New vista is committed to providing people of all ages with intellectual and developmental disabilities, equitable opportunities, and supported living arrangements so that they may experience life to the fullest.

Human Services

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

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIsrael-Focused Jewish Organ…Community Health CentersSupportive Housing & Commun…Cancer Research and SupportBuddhist Temples and Monast…Law Enforcement Mutual AidDog and Cat Rescue Organiza…At-Risk Youth & Vulnerable …Family Foundations & Charit…Performing Arts Organizatio…Community Support ServicesCharter Schools and Stem Ed…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number35%6%<5yr17%12%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr14%21%20–35yr7%20%35–55yr8%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value35%1%<5yr17%6%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr14%7%20–35yr7%18%35–55yr8%52%55yr+

The field is 35% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 20% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/91
the rest of the field
20%
2,502/12,284

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.

04the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 131 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/82
Grantees still filing
47/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS SIGESMUND CENTER — $88,594 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS SIGESMUND CENTERTEMPLE BETH SHOLOM — $88,500 · OtherTEMPLE BETH SHOLOMKEEP MEMORY ALIVE — $37,000 · OtherKEEP MEMORY ALIVEGIVE - MENTOR - LOVE — $12,750 · Other+74 more — $154,848 · Other+74 moreUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $246,800 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA+9 more — $20,750 · Education+9 moreTYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION — $35,250 · HealthTYLER ROBIN…OLE HEALTH — $18,000 · HealthOLE HEALTHCHASE RAUCHLE PTSD NOW — $7,750 · HealthCHASE RAUCH…TRINI FOUNDATION — $5,730 · HealthTRINI FOUND…American Heart Association Inc — $5,000 · HealthAmerican He…Yoga Haven — $5,000 · HealthYoga Haven+10 more — $14,000 · Health+10 moreISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL — $10,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $7,000 · Human ServicesLAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION — $6,600 · Human ServicesTHE UNFORGETTABLES FOUNDATION — $4,500 · Human ServicesRAISE THE FUTURE — $3,000 · Human ServicesSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesHELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $2,500 · Human ServicesGive-Mentor-Love Foundation — $2,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesNathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc — $2,200 · Human Services+3 more — $2,750 · Human ServicesGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA INC — $18,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentKLOTHES 4 KIDS — $3,500 · Youth Development+1 more — $750 · Youth DevelopmentTHE JUST ONE PROJECT — $16,250 · PhilanthropyNEVADA CENTER FOR HUMANITY — $2,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $2,500 · PhilanthropyOLE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,300 · PhilanthropyJOYCE STRAUS FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS — $1,000 · PhilanthropyBarkmerica — $1,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $500 · PhilanthropyHONOR FLIGHT SOUTHERN NEVADA — $9,000 · Public BenefitNELLIS SUPPORT TEAM — $4,500 · Public Benefit
Other$381,692Education$267,550Health$90,730Human Services$57,050Youth Development$37,750Philanthropy$25,050Public Benefit$13,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $246,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS SIGESMUND CENTER — $88,594 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION — $35,250 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA INC — $18,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOLE HEALTH — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JUST ONE PROJECT — $16,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL — $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT SOUTHERN NEVADA — $9,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCHASE RAUCHLE PTSD NOW — $7,750 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTheta Phi Lambda Foundation — $7,500 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION — $6,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRINI FOUNDATION — $5,730 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTHREE SQUARE — $5,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIPERO SERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoga Haven — $5,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOVA INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE UNFORGETTABLES FOUNDATION — $4,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNELLIS SUPPORT TEAM — $4,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE — $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAISE THE FUTURE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR RECOVERY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCreate a Change Now — $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNEVADA BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHollywood Schoolhouse Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEVADA CENTER FOR HUMANITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc — $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHADE TREE INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC — $1,768 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPERIOD INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCope Family Center — $1,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOLE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR PRISONERS INC — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 Shuster Family Fo…NV Energy Charitable …Nevada Community Foun…Wynn Resorts Foundati…Mgm Resorts FoundationMondays DarkEngelstad Family Foun…Vegas Golden Knights …United Way of Souther…Canarelli Family Foun…Three SquareThe Boyd Family Found…
The Shuster Family FoundationNV64.1× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Shuster Family Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Mondays Dark · Engelstad Family Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · United Way of Southern Nevada · Canarelli Family Foundation · Three Square · The Boyd Family 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Period Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 131 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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