· Private foundation
The Harold and Marion Gordon Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of The Harold and Marion Gordon Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Harold and Marion Gordon Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $107k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k7 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION | $31,667 |
| PASSAGEWAY RESIDENTS OF DADE COUNTY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,333 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TARA PERFORMING ART HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE EINSTEIN METHOD | $5,000 |
| MACKINTOSH ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| TEAM PARADISE SAILING INC | $1,667 |
| EVANESCENT MUSTANG RESCUE & SANCTUA | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2021, 12 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- PRPASSAGEWAY RESIDENCE OF DADE COUNTY INC2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +27%
- CGCOMMON GROUND2× · 2022–2023 · $24k · revenue +42%
- TMThe Musical Arts Association2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- NWNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +12%
- TCthe cleveland orchestra miamione grant, 2017 · $10k
MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -23%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Simon wiesenthal center, inc. (the center) is a global jewish human rights activist organization that confronts anti-semitism, hate, stands with israel, defends the safety of jews worldwide, and teaches the lessons of the holocaust for…
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mad About Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 55 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 GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds PASSAGEWAY RESIDENCE OF DADE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds THE EINSTEIN METHOD FKA EINSTEIN EDUCATION ECOSYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Team Paradise Sailing Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MAD ABOUT ART ↗
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MACKINTOSH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds EXTENDED HANDS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CHARLIES GUYS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOULDER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · The Denver Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Community Foundation Boulder County · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Harold and Marion Gordon Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc — 4% of income from government
- New World Symphony Inc — 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.