· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $236k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY | $51,000 |
| NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS CLUB | $30,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK TRACK CLUB | $30,000 |
| CHAPIN SCHOOL | $27,000 |
| BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK | $25,000 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF MILTON ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| OUR LADY OF GRACE | $14,000 |
| CARL SCHURZ PARK CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- AIAchilles International Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +34%
- FOFRIEND OF HARVARD TRACKone grant, 2019 · $2k
- ACAUSABLE CLUB PRESERVATIONone grant, 2019 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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).
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- 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 THE ARMORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALCOVE LEARNING ↗
- Who funds ORKEESWA INC ↗
- Who funds Achilles International Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Henry L Ferguson Museum ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gordon Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gordon Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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