· Private foundation
The Michael 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $558k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FONTBONNE HALL ACADEMY (RC) | $30,000 |
| XAVERIAN SCHOOL | $28,125 |
| ST EDMUND PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL | $28,000 |
| NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MANHATTAN | $27,500 |
| NOTRE DAME ACADEMY | $27,500 |
| LA SALLE ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| CARDINAL SPELLMAN HIGH SCHOOL | $21,050 |
| BAY RIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL (IND) | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| ST JOHN'S PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| STATEN ISLAND ACADEMY (IND) | $15,000 |
| SAINT SAVIOUR HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CRISTO REY BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL (RC) | $13,200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CRCRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $90k · revenue +37%
- BRBAY RIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL4× · 2019–2022 · $60k · revenue +42%
- SISTATEN ISLAND ACADEMY6× · 2019–2024 · $58k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- RERYKEN EDUCATIONAL CENTERone grant, 2019 · $18k
- HAHEBREW ACADEMY FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN INCone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +6%
- GBGILLEN BREWER SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -22%
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.
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.
Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage. located in the prospect heights neighborhood of brookly, luria academy is a jewish…
The Vincent Smith School is a co-ed, independent, special education school for grades ones through twelve, serving Nassau, Suffolk, and New York City students. The School specializes in students with various learning issues.
Students are prepared to meet the needs of an ever changing technological and global society. we use the latest technology in our classrooms as an integral part of its curriculum approach. this approach is based on the latest research in…
We create confident learners who lead lives of intellectual curiosity, self-knowledge, and social responsibility.
The robert louis stevenson school's mission is to provide a college preparatory program for bright adolescents who have not reached their potential in more traditional school settings. the program provides every student individually…
To provide an academically exceptional education to students grade 9 through 12 in a warm, supportive, and nurturing environment.
Compass charter school is a safe and nurturing educational environment that honors the individuality of each learner. by engaging in a process of inquiry, our graduates will be equipped with the necessary skills to lead fulfilling personal…
Brooklyn independent is a 6th-8th private middle school with a fierce belief in diversity and inclusion. we specialize in middle school learning by balancing high rigor and high experiential learning. our sliding-scale tuition model…
Education - private school grades preschool through twelfth
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 59 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Partnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools · Brooklyn Benevolent Society · Mutual of America Foundation · The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Theresa & Edward O'Toole Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Richmond County Savings Foundation · Al & Peggy Dematteis Family Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Michael Gordon Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Michael Gordon Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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