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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$1.1MFood & Nutrition$611kEducation$356kHealth$176kArts & Culture$105kHuman Services$60kScience & Tech$55kCivil Rights$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST$35,000
SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE$35,000
ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC$30,000
SYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM$30,000
THE SAFINA CENTER$27,500
GALLERY NORTH INC$25,000
SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION$25,000
CIVIL EATS$25,000
CERES INC$25,000
ORGANIC FARMING RESEARCH FOUNDATION$25,000
FOOD PROJECT ASSOCIATION$20,000
U C SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION$20,000
GREEN AMERICA$20,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$20,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
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

  • 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%
  • Cornell University
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +15%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Refed Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 78 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/72
Grantees still filing
44/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 INCScenic Hudson Inc: $50,000 · EnvironmentScenic Hudson IncSustainable Conservation: $50,000 · EnvironmentSustainable ConservationTHE 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 ServicesFAITH ROOTS REPRODUCTIVE ACTION: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE REBOLI CENTER FOR ART AND HISTO: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTHE SAND COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSustainable Conservation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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 budgetCITY GROWERS INC: $25,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCornell University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMeridian Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREEN AMERICA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOOD PROJECT ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION: $15,641 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH ROOTS REPRODUCTIVE ACTION: $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUtopian Seed Project Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE REBOLI CENTER FOR ART AND HISTO: $15,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetIMPACT 100 NYC INC: $15,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEARTLAND HEALTH RESEARCH ALLIANCE LTD: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMARBLESEED INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MEMORY PROJECT PRODUCTIONS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL MOMENTUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKentucky Health Justice Network Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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

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 Ida and Robert Gordon Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ida and Robert Gordon Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 78 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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