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The Gorfine Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% 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
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$372k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore$25,000
Jewish National Fund$4,000
Channel One Food Bank$2,000
Project Legacy$2,000
Jemicy School$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Shriners Hospital for Children$1,000
Lakewood Ranch High School$1,000
Edward Myerburg Senior Center$1,000
Disability Rights Maryland Inc$1,000
Legal Aid Bureau$1,000
Casey Cares Foundation$1,000
Torah Institute of Baltimore$600
American Red Cross$500
FIDF$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Family Service Rochester: $2k → 9%Minneapolis Urban Leage: $1k → 11%Project Legacy: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$263k · 31 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
9

Total granted

$263k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
-12%

Still filing today

58%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthFood & NutritionCrime & LegalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    CASEY CARES FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +109%
  • TJ
    THE JEMICY SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +44%
  • FO
    FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA
    4× · 2020–2023 · $7k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • MC
    Marine Corps Assoc Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • TH
    THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +39%
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE ROCHESTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -23%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
3
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
4
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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5
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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6
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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7
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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8
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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9
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
10
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
11
University of Maryland Medical System Corporation

Umms provides a variety of inpatient/outpatient services to people in the maryland area regardless of their ability to pay. revenues are used to help defray the costs of services.

Health
12
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 45 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
19/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC: $170,400 · PhilanthropyTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC+2 more: $5,200 · PhilanthropyLakewood Ranch High School: $6,000 · OtherLakewood Ranch High Sch…Individual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipi…TORAH INSTITUTE OF BALTIMORE INC: $4,050 · OtherTORAH INSTITUTE OF BALT…MINNESOTA WELL OWNERS ORGANIZATION: $4,000 · OtherMINNESOTA WELL OWNERS O…EDWARD A MYERBERG SENIOR CENTER INC: $4,000 · OtherEDWARD A MYERBERG SENIO…Marine Corps Assoc Fund: $3,000 · OtherEd Block Courage Award: $2,500 · OtherJohn Hopkin Children Center: $2,400 · OtherTHE JEMICY SCHOOL INC: $7,500 · OtherTHE JEMICY SCHOOL INCTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC: $2,500 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF MANATEE COUNTY: $2,500 · Other+15 more: $20,900 · Other+15 moreJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $23,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,500 · InternationalFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: $7,000 · Food & NutritionCHANNEL ONE INC: $6,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC: $1,500 · Food & NutritionCASEY CARES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLEGAL AID BUREAU INC: $6,000 · Crime & LegalDisability Rights Maryland Inc dba Maryland Disability Law Center Inc: $2,500 · Crime & LegalDAMASCUS WAY RE-ENTRY CENTER INC: $1,350 · Crime & LegalMercy Health Foundation: $3,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $2,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $2,000 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 · HealthUniversity of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc: $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 · Health+1 more: $200 · Health
Philanthropy$175,600Other$65,350International$24,500Food & Nutrition$14,500Arts & Culture$10,000Crime & Legal$9,850Health$9,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $23,000 over 6y, 0.0% 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 budgetROCHESTER AREA FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 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 budgetMAYO CLINIC: $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
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.

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 Cha…Baltimore Community F…Otto Bremer TrustGreenbaum Family Foun…Herbert Bearman Found…T Rowe Price Program …Mayo ClinicThe United Way of Cen…American Endowment Fo…Mightycause Charitabl…Baird Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings F…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Gorfine Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gorfine Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Disability Rights Maryland Inc dba Maryland Disability Law Center Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Legal Aid Bureau Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in 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
where grant money is based, and what stays home