Colorado · Private foundation
The Gordon Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $11k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2024
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 11
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $89k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations The Gordon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitOther
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 10 | $11k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $7k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $7k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $7k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $11k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $7k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $8k | 60% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $10k | n/a |
98% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Environment$27kAnimals$23kHealth$8kReligion$3kEducation$2kInternational$1kPhilanthropy$1kHuman Services$1kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Defenders of Wildlife | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
| National Park Foundation | $2,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Hawkquest | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Rails to Trails Conservancy | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| National Parks Conservation Association | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $750 | 3 | 0% |
| Dallas Parks Foundation | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc | $400 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Defenders of Wildlife | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
| National Park Foundation | $2,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Hawkquest | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Rails to Trails Conservancy | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| National Parks Conservation Association | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $750 | 3 | 0% |
| Dallas Parks Foundation | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc | $400 | 4 | 0% |
| North Texas Food Bank | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $150 | 2 | 0% |
| Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
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 13.
About The Gordon Foundation
- How much does The Gordon Foundation give?
- The Gordon Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $10,850 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Gordon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (39%), Animals (33%), Health (12%).
- Who are The Gordon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Defenders of Wildlife ($20k), World Wildlife Fund Inc ($7k), Smile Train Inc ($7k).
- Does The Gordon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gordon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is The Gordon Foundation based?
- The Gordon Foundation is based in CO.
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More from the funding graph
The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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