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The Gordon Foundation Inc

$5k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
7
Organizations funded FY2022
14%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$250
Largest grant, FY2022
$3,325
Organizations funded a year
6 to 16
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
4

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 14% of the organizations The Gordon Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20227$5k14%
FY20216$4k17%
FY20208$5k50%
FY201911$8k36%
FY20188$3k38%
FY201716$7kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Religion$15kHealth$5kEnvironment$3kRecreation & Sports$1kEducation$1kFood & Nutrition$1kCommunity Improvement$1kHuman Services$780Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees
All grantees of The Gordon Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sepsis Alliance Inc$4,45140%
Kehilat Romemu$2,5001n/a
Clean Water Fund$2,15050%
Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc$1,07560%
Spark Friends Inc$1,00053%
Ironbound Community Corporation$75020%
New York Shakespeare Festival$50010%
Sam & Devorah Foundation For Trans Youth$28020%
West Orange Scholarship Fund$2503n/a
Clinton Hill Community Action Inc$25010%
Eastern Environmental Law Center Inc$25010%
Somerset County Park Foundation$20010%
Equal Justice America Inc$1001n/a
The World Union for Progressive Judaism Ltd$721n/a
Millburn Short Hills Volunteer First Aid Squad Inc$2510%
The Short Hills Association$2510%

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($18k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSepsis Alliance Inc: $4,451 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetClean Water Fund: $2,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $1,075 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSpark Friends Inc: $1,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetIronbound Community Corporation: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Shakespeare Festival: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSam & Devorah Foundation For Trans Youth: $280 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetClinton Hill Community Action Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEastern Environmental Law Center Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSomerset County Park Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMillburn Short Hills Volunteer First Aid Squad Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Short Hills Association: $25 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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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 12.

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.

Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Inc

How much does The Gordon Foundation Inc give?
The Gordon Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $4,926 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does The Gordon Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Religion (45%), Health (16%), Environment (9%).
Who are The Gordon Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Sepsis Alliance Inc ($4k), Kehilat Romemu ($3k), Clean Water Fund ($2k).
Does The Gordon Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Gordon Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, Verizon Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is The Gordon Foundation Inc based?
The Gordon Foundation Inc is based in NJ.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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