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The Margie M Gordon Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Margie M Gordon 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.

$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$3k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$18kHuman Services$13kFood & Nutrition$9kEducation$7kHealth$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kRecreation & Sports$4kYouth Development$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$245k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alamogordo Tiger Band Booster$3,000
Feeding America$500
Volunteer Firefighter Alliance Inc$350
National Police Support Fund$100
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 (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMPANIONS FOR HEROES: $1k → 14%COMPANIONS FOR HEROES: $500 → 14%BURBANK TEMPORARY AID CENTER: $500 → 14%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

IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
CA
MO
KY
VA
NM
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36k · 14 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
27

Total granted

$36k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+25%

Still filing today

64%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • GC
    Glendale College Foundation
    2× · 2017–2020 · $7k · revenue +162%
  • Feeding America
    2× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +17%
  • MW
    MUTTS WITH A MISSION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • TC
    The CA Wildlife Center
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • BF
    BURBANK FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • KC
    KIDS COMMUNITY CLINIC OF BURBANKgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +46%
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
United States War Dogs Association Inc

The mission of the corporation is to provide support for the war dogs of the united states military. the organization provides care packages to war dogs and their handlers serving overseas. the organization also provides support for…

Animals
2
Patriot K9 Rescue Inc

Our mission is to provide retirement and adoption services to our retired military and police K9's. Including but not limited to veterinary care, transportation services, training, safe, clean housing, rehabilitation, and to provide life…

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3
Pets for Vets Inc

Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…

Public Benefit
4
Paws Need People

Paws need people strive to rescue pets from shelters and provide a place they can stay until they are adopted. they provide pets to veterans through its therapy pet program.

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5
Black Ops Rescue

Transforming the lives of shelter pets and veterans through compassionate assessment, compatible adoptions, and ongoing support.

Animals
6
Project 2 Heal

The mission is to increase the availability of service dogs for veterans, children with special needs, and adults with disabilities. We breed, nurture, donate, and in some cases, train Labrador Retriever puppies to ensure they become…

Animals
7
Veteran Service Dogs Organization

Provide service dogs to us military veterans

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8
A Cause to Give Us Paws

Service Dog training for Disabled Veterans

Animals
9
Hero Dogs Inc

Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.

Human Services
10
Patriot Paws Service Dogs

To train and provide service dogs of the highest quality at no cost to disabled american veterans and others with mobile disabilities in order to help restore their physical and emotional independence.

Human Services
11
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
12
Pets for Patriots Inc

The organization's mission is to transform the lives of veterans by helping them save an at risk shelter dog or cat, and to end all animal homelessness in the us and enrich the lives of men and women who serve, and have served our country.…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project K9 Hero; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 44 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MANNA CONEJO VALLEY FOOD BANK: $5,500 · OtherMANNA CONEJO VALLEY FOOD BANKBURBANK TEMP AID CENTER: $5,500 · OtherBURBANK TEMP AID CENTERThe CA Wildlife Center: $5,000 · OtherThe CA Wildlife CenterBURBANK FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $4,600 · OtherBURBANK FAMILY SERVICE AGENCYAlamogordo Tiger Band Booster: $3,000 · OtherAlamogordo Tiger Band BoosterBURBANK FAMILY SERVICES: $3,000 · OtherBURBANK FAMILY SERVICESBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF BURBANK: $2,500 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF BURBANK+18 more: $10,914 · Other+18 moreMUTTS WITH A MISSION: $3,000 · AnimalsMUTTS WITH A MI…FixNation Inc: $1,500 · AnimalsFixNation IncPAWS OF WAR INC: $1,000 · AnimalsPAWS OF WAR INCPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc: $1,000 · AnimalsPeaceful Valley…PROJECT K9 HERO: $1,000 · AnimalsPROJECT K9 HEROSPEAK UP FOR HORSES: $816 · AnimalsSPEAK UP FOR HO…WILDLIFE WAYSTATION: $500 · AnimalsPAWS OF HONOR INC: $500 · Animals+1 more: $300 · AnimalsGlendale College Foundation: $7,000 · EducationGlendale Co…+1 more: $200 · EducationKIDS COMMUNITY CLINIC OF BURBANK: $3,000 · HealthCHOC FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $300 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $200 · HealthFeeding America: $3,000 · Food & NutritionADOPT A PLATOON SOLDIER SUPPORT EFFORT INC: $2,720 · PhilanthropyCompanions for Heroes: $1,500 · Human ServicesBURBANK TEMPORARY AID CENTER INC: $500 · Human Services
Other$40,014Animals$9,616Education$7,200Health$4,500Food & Nutrition$3,000Philanthropy$2,720Human Services$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGlendale College Foundation: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS COMMUNITY CLINIC OF BURBANK: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFeeding America: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTS WITH A MISSION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADOPT A PLATOON SOLDIER SUPPORT EFFORT INC: $2,720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCompanions for Heroes: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFixNation Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS OF WAR INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT K9 HERO: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEROBOX INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPEAK UP FOR HORSES: $816 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWILDLIFE WAYSTATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS OF HONOR INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBURBANK TEMPORARY AID CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER ALLIANCE INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKato Foundation Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $200 over 1y, 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.

The Bettie Gordon Nea…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bettie Gordon Neale Foundation IncCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bettie Gordon Neale Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Margie M Gordon Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Margie M Gordon Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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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    How do I get to The Margie M Gordon Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Margie M Gordon 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 44 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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