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The Ida and Robert Gordon Family Foundation Inc

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.

$627k
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Environment$715kFood & Nutrition$568kEducation$312kHealth$188kInternational$87kHuman Services$80kArts & Culture$64kScience & Tech$50kAnimals$45kOther$509k
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $518k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EARTHJUSTICE$50,000
SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE$35,000
AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST$35,000
SYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM$30,000
ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC$30,000
THE SAFINA CENTER$27,500
ORGANIC FARMING RESEARCH FOUNDATION$25,000
CIVIL EATS$25,000
GALLERY NORTH INC$25,000
SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION$25,000
CERES INC$25,000
GREEN AMERICA$20,000
U C SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION$20,000
FOOD PROJECT ASSOCIATION$20,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE MARION AND AARON GURAL JCC INC: $10k → 6%THE REBOLI CENTER FOR ART AND HISTORY: $5k → 7%NEW MEXICO RELIGIOUS COALITION FOR REPRODUCTIVE CH: $15k → 14%THE MARION AND AARON GURAL JCC INC: $10k → 6%THE MARION AND AARON GURAL JCC INC: $10k → 6%THE REBOLI CENTER FOR ART AND HISTORY: $5k → 7%THE MARION AND AARON GURAL JCC INC: $10k → 6%THE MARION AND AARON GURAL JCC INC: $5k → 6%THE REBOLI CENTER FOR ART AND HISTORY: $5k → 7%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
CT
CA
CO
KY
DE
NM
NC
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 35 repeat orgs$446k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
27

Total granted

$2.2M
$284k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+15%

Still filing today

89%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionEnvironmentEducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthOther

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

  • US
    UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $263k · revenue +8%
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $165k · revenue +16%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST
    5× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF LAW
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • PR
    POINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +83%
  • CI
    CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +319%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Zero Foodprint

Zero foodprint is mobilizing the food world around agricultural climate solutions. our work aims to create a circular economy that incentivizes practices that actively draw down carbon dioxide and offer our best hope of addressing the…

Food & Nutrition
2
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
3
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
4
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
5
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
6
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research

Foundation for food and agriculture research connects funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges.

Food & Nutrition
7
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
8
The Hudson Carbon Research Foundation in

Hudson carbon is dedicated to catalyzing the adoption of regenerative organic agriculture by advancing our scientific understanding of its practices and systems, and their potential to radically reverse climate change and environmental…

Environment
9
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

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…

International
10
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
11
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
12
Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Refed Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Place Players New York Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsLocal Food System Organizat…Community Arts CentersWomen & Girls Leadership De…Food Banks and PantriesDance Arts OrganizationsPregnancy Support ServicesLocal History MuseumsJewish Community Organizati…Community Food PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Community College Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%45%35–55yr16%13%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/75
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,490

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.

04the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 78 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/72
Grantees still filing
44/72
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EARTHJUSTICE — $165,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICESOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE — $155,000 · EnvironmentSOIL HEALTH INSTITUTECERES INC — $100,000 · EnvironmentCERES INCENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC — $95,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INCSustainable Conservation — $50,000 · EnvironmentSustainable ConservationScenic Hudson Inc — $50,000 · EnvironmentScenic Hudson IncTHE CARL SAFINA CENTER INC THE SAFINA CENTER — $48,700 · EnvironmentTHE CARL SAFINA CENTER INC THE…CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC — $25,000 · Environment+4 more — $26,641 · EnvironmentAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST — $160,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUSTSYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM INC — $122,475 · Food & NutritionSYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIO…Civil Eats — $65,000 · Food & NutritionCivil EatsREFED INC — $60,000 · Food & NutritionREFED INCNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC — $35,000 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS C…REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Food & NutritionREGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE…CITY GROWERS INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC — $20,000 · Food & Nutrition+5 more — $46,000 · Food & Nutrition+5 moreORGANIC FARMING RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $85,000 · OtherORGANIC FARMING RESEARCH FOU…THE SAND COUNTY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · OtherTHE SAND COUNTY FOUNDATION I…ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE — $36,000 · OtherORGANIC SEED ALLIANCEYALE UNIVERSITY - YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRO — $35,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY — $35,000 · OtherCROSSING POINT ARTS INC — $31,500 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · OtherNEW YORK UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF LAW — $25,000 · OtherGALLERY NORTH INC — $35,357 · OtherWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc — $50,000 · OtherWoodwell Climate Research Ce…POINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY — $25,000 · OtherMeridian Institute — $25,000 · OtherFoodWhat Incorporated — $30,000 · Other+20 more — $174,500 · Other+20 moreUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION — $263,000 · EducationUC SANTA CRUZ…Cornell University — $25,000 · EducationCornell Unive…+5 more — $24,000 · Education+5 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC — $151,000 · HealthHEARTLAND HEALTH RESEARCH ALLIANCE LTD — $15,000 · HealthMARBLESEED INC — $12,000 · HealthKentucky Health Justice Network Inc — $10,000 · HealthTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $55,000 · InternationalTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS — $20,000 · InternationalGroundswell International Inc — $10,000 · International+2 more — $2,000 · InternationalTHE MARION AND AARON GURAL JCC INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesTHE REBOLI CENTER FOR ART AND HISTO — $15,000 · Human ServicesFAITH ROOTS REPRODUCTIVE ACTION — $15,000 · Human ServicesLong Island Cares Inc — $5,000 · Human Services
Environment$715,341Food & Nutrition$568,475Other$667,357Education$312,000Health$188,000International$87,000Human Services$80,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION — $263,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $165,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST — $160,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE — $155,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC — $151,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM INC — $122,475 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCERES INC — $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC — $95,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetORGANIC FARMING RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCivil Eats — $65,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetREFED INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSustainable Conservation — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAND COUNTY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CARL SAFINA CENTER INC THE SAFINA CENTER — $48,700 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTHE MARION AND AARON GURAL JCC INC — $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE — $36,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGALLERY NORTH INC — $35,357 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFoodWhat Incorporated — $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMeridian Institute — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCITY GROWERS INC — $25,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCornell University — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGREEN AMERICA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOOD PROJECT ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION — $15,641 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUtopian Seed Project Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE REBOLI CENTER FOR ART AND HISTO — $15,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT 100 NYC INC — $15,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAITH ROOTS REPRODUCTIVE ACTION — $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetHEARTLAND HEALTH RESEARCH ALLIANCE LTD — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMARBLESEED INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSMILE FARMS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MEMORY PROJECT PRODUCTIONS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetKentucky Health Justice Network Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Clif Family FoundationImpactassetsincPatagoniaorgThe Schmidt Family Fo…Rsf Social Finance IncThe Chicago Community…The Nell Newman Found…Silicon Valley Commun…The McKnight Foundati…Walton Family Foundat…UNFI FoundationThe Rockefeller Found…
Clif Family FoundationCA29.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Clif Family Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Patagoniaorg · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Nell Newman Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · UNFI Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation

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 Ida and Robert Gordon Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Grow Food Northampton Inc — 25% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to The Ida and Robert Gordon Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Ida and Robert Gordon Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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