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The Gordon Fund
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $236k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY | $51,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK TRACK CLUB | $30,000 |
| NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS CLUB | $30,000 |
| CHAPIN SCHOOL | $27,000 |
| BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK | $25,000 |
| PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF MILTON ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| OUR LADY OF GRACE | $14,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| CARL SCHURZ PARK CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MAKE THE ROAD NEW JERSEY | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
24 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CPCENTRAL PARK TRACK CLUB CORPORATION6× · 2019–2024 · $185k · revenue +93%
- TCTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD6× · 2019–2024 · $156k · revenue +9%
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE6× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- ACAUSABLE CLUB PRESERVATIONone grant, 2019 · $2k
- FOFRIEND OF HARVARD TRACKone grant, 2019 · $2k
- AIAchilles International Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +34%
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.
The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Barnard college aims to provide the highest quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women, offering the unparalleled advantages of an outstanding residential college in partnership with a major research…
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
Marymount manhattan college is an urban, independent, liberal arts college (see schedule o).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alcove Learning. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 31 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 BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK TRACK CLUB CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CARL SCHURZ PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EVERY MOTHER COUNTS ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOMO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ALCOVE LEARNING ↗
- Who funds THE ARMORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORKEESWA INC ↗
- Who funds Achilles International Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Henry L Ferguson Museum ↗
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: The Warburg Pincus Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Fund 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 0% of income from government
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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