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The Gorfine Foundation Inc

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.

$45k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
26%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 28
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$372k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations The Gorfine Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
AnimalsFood & NutritionHealthCrime & LegalHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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
FY2025still arriving21$41k10%
FY202419$45k26%
FY202322$49k9%
FY202221$46k0%
FY202126$48k19%
FY202028$52kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$150kHealth$22kInternational$20kEducation$14kFood & Nutrition$12kHuman Services$12kCrime & Legal$7kCivil Rights$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc$170,40060%
Casey Cares Foundation Inc$10,00050%
The Jemicy School Inc$7,50060%
Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia$7,00040%
Legal Aid Bureau Inc$6,00060%
Channel One Inc$6,00030%
Torah Institute of Baltimore Inc$4,0506n/a
Minnesota Well Owners Organization$4,0002n/a
Edward a Myerberg Senior Center Inc$4,00060%
Mercy Health Foundation$3,00030%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($28k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc: $170,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCasey Cares Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Jemicy School Inc: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFoodbank of Southeastern Virginia: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Aid Bureau Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChannel One Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEdward a Myerberg Senior Center Inc: $4,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Health Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Humane Society of Baltimore County Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDisability Rights Maryland Inc dba Maryland Disability Law Center Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Manatee County: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGlaad Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Service Rochester Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Central Marylandinc: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHoward County Youth Program Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDamascus Way Re-Entry Center Inc: $1,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMinnesota Indian Women's Resource Center: $1,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban League Twin Cities: $1,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United Way of Central Maryland Inc: $1,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnterprise Community Partners Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% 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 26.

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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.

Associated Jewish Charities of BaltimoreMD17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Greenbaum Family Foundation · Herbert Bearman Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Mayo Clinic · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings 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 Gorfine Foundation Inc

How much does The Gorfine Foundation Inc give?
The Gorfine Foundation Inc reported 22 grants totaling $45,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Gorfine Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (57%), Health (8%), International (8%).
Who are The Gorfine Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc ($170k), Casey Cares Foundation Inc ($10k), The Jemicy School Inc ($8k).
Does The Gorfine Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Gorfine Foundation Inc 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 Gorfine Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore, Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, Otto Bremer Trust.
Where is The Gorfine Foundation Inc based?
The Gorfine Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 45 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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