How much does The Gordon Foundation give?

The Gordon Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $128,949 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does The Gordon Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Health (17%), Philanthropy (12%).

Who are The Gordon Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Keep Memory Alive ($37k), Tyler Robinson Foundation ($35k), Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada Inc ($19k).

Does The Gordon Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Gordon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Gordon Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Shuster Family Foundation, NV Energy Charitable Foundation, Nevada Community Foundation Inc.

Where is The Gordon Foundation based?

The Gordon Foundation is based in NV.

Foundation Dossiers

Nevada · Private foundation

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 FY2025(still arriving): 29
Grants FY2025: 27
Organizations funded FY2024: 41%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $1,750
Largest grant, FY2025: $31,250
Organizations funded a year: 27 to 42; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 7
Total assets, FY2025: $2.7M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 41% of the organizations The Gordon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	25	$88k	52%
FY2024	27	$80k	41%
FY2023	28	$81k	39%
FY2022	42	$101k	57%
FY2021	41	$112k	76%
FY2017	36	$60k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Keep Memory Alive	$37,000	4	n/a
Tyler Robinson Foundation	$35,250	5	1%
Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada Inc	$18,500	4	0%
Ole Health	$18,000	1	0%
The Just One Project	$16,250	3	0%
The Shaquille O'Neal Foundation	$15,000	1	1%
Friendship Circle	$11,500	4	n/a
Breakaway Cycling Inc	$11,000	2	n/a
Israeli-American Council	$10,500	3	0%
Friendship Circle of Las Vegas Inc	$10,000	2	2%

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All grantees of The Gordon Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Keep Memory Alive	$37,000	4	n/a
Tyler Robinson Foundation	$35,250	5	1%
Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada Inc	$18,500	4	0%
Ole Health	$18,000	1	0%
The Just One Project	$16,250	3	0%
The Shaquille O'Neal Foundation	$15,000	1	1%
Friendship Circle	$11,500	4	n/a
Breakaway Cycling Inc	$11,000	2	n/a
Israeli-American Council	$10,500	3	0%
Friendship Circle of Las Vegas Inc	$10,000	2	2%
Honor Flight Southern Nevada	$9,000	3	3%
Chase Rauchle Ptsd Now	$7,750	5	1%
Theta Phi Lambda Foundation	$7,500	3	7%
Vista del Mar Child and Family Services	$7,000	3	0%
Las Vegas Rescue Mission	$6,600	5	0%
Anti-Defamation League	$6,000	2	0%
Trini Foundation	$5,730	3	3%
Three Square	$5,450	3	0%
American Heart Association Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Yoga Haven	$5,000	4	8%
Dova Inc	$5,000	3	1%
Junipero Serra Catholic High School	$5,000	1	0%
Nellis Support Team	$4,500	1	3%
The Unforgettables Foundation	$4,500	3	1%
Klothes 4 Kids	$3,500	2	n/a
Opportunity Village	$3,250	2	0%
Serving Our Kids Foundation Inc	$3,000	2	1%
Raise the Future	$3,000	1	0%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society	$2,750	2	0%
Create a Change Now	$2,500	1	2%
Help of Southern Nevada	$2,500	1	0%
Nevada Broadcasters Foundation	$2,500	1	1%
Nevada Center for Humanity	$2,500	1	1%
Communities in Schools of Nevada Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Community Initiatives	$2,500	1	0%
Hollywood Schoolhouse Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Give-Mentor-Love Foundation	$2,500	1	n/a
Foundation for Recovery Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Nathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc	$2,200	2	0%
Awaken Church Las Vegas	$2,000	1	n/a
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Las Vegas	$2,000	2	n/a
The Shade Tree Inc	$2,000	2	0%
Beauty Bus Foundation	$2,000	3	0%
Blood Cancer United Inc	$2,000	2	0%
National Brain Tumor Society Inc	$1,768	2	0%
Period Inc	$1,500	2	0%
Michigan B'Nai B'Rith Hillel Foundation Inc	$1,500	1	0%
Ole Health Foundation	$1,300	1	0%
Cope Family Center	$1,300	1	0%
Cmb Hockey Foundation Inc	$1,250	1	n/a
Notre Dame Club of Los Angeles	$1,250	1	n/a
Hope for Prisoners Inc	$1,250	1	0%
Heaven Can Wait Animal Society	$1,000	1	0%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Las Vegas	$1,000	1	0%
Project 150	$1,000	1	0%
Noah's Animal House Foundation	$1,000	1	0%
Barkmerica	$1,000	1	0%
Joyce Straus Foundation for the Arts	$1,000	1	3%
Global Grins	$1,000	1	9%
Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network	$1,000	2	0%
Clark County Optimist Boys Home and Ranch Inc	$1,000	1	n/a
Las Vegas Fashion Council Foundation	$1,000	1	2%
Mission Plasticos	$1,000	1	0%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$875	2	0%
Harold Robinson Foundation	$750	2	0%
Las Vegas Breast Cancer Warriors	$750	1	n/a
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces	$680	1	0%
Prevent Child Trafficking Nevada Dba Alliance for Child Protection	$500	1	0%
The Cupcake Girls	$500	1	0%
Give Tribe Inc	$500	1	n/a
The Napa Institute	$500	1	0%
Successful Survivors Foundation Inc	$500	1	0%
Burly Cares	$500	1	n/a
National Mill Dog Rescue	$500	1	0%
Unique Projects Inc	$500	1	0%
American Friends of Batsheva Dance Company	$500	1	n/a
Street Dogz	$500	1	0%
Donorschooseorg	$500	1	0%
University of Michigan	$500	1	0%
Love Yourself Foundation	$500	1	n/a
Bark for a Cause	$500	1	n/a
Giving Hearts Yoga Inc Co Laura Maynard	$500	1	3%
Olive Crest	$500	1	0%
Candlelighters for Childhood Cancer	$500	1	0%
Hoag Hospital Foundation	$500	1	0%
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Inc	$100	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($171k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gordon Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 70.

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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.

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

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.

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About The Gordon Foundation

How much does The Gordon Foundation give?: The Gordon Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $128,949 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Gordon Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Health (17%), Philanthropy (12%).
Who are The Gordon Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Keep Memory Alive ($37k), Tyler Robinson Foundation ($35k), Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada Inc ($19k).
Does The Gordon Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Gordon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Gordon Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Shuster Family Foundation, NV Energy Charitable Foundation, Nevada Community Foundation Inc.
Where is The Gordon Foundation based?: The Gordon Foundation is based in NV.