· Private foundation
The Nancy H and William J Gordon Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT | $10,000 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| COVENANT SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| ALSAC-ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $4,000 |
| CROSSNORE SCHOOL & CHILDREN'S HOME | $4,000 |
| THE JEFFERSON COUNCIL | $4,000 |
| GEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC | $4,000 |
| FOCUS | $4,000 |
| MOCKINGBIRD MINISTRIES INC | $4,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $4,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
11 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT5× · 2020–2025 · $54k · revenue +822%
- TCTHE COVENANT SCHOOL INC4× · 2022–2025 · $44k · revenue +32%
- WFWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL4× · 2022–2025 · $19k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- CECHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $65k
- VAVIRGINIA ATHLETIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k
- LFLINVILLE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +44%
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.
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
Regents' mission is to provide a classical and christian education, founded upon and informed by a biblical worldview, that equips our students to know, love, and practice that which is true, good, and the beautiful and challenges them to…
Provide an education to children in lower and middle school using classical christian methodology.
The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…
The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…
Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
See schedule o.in partnership with committed parents, our mission is to provide a purpose-driven college preparatory program, within a vibrant christ-centered environment that empowers students to discover their passions and to develop…
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
The mission of Good Shepherd Episcopal School is to inspire each child to achieve academic excellence within a diverse, nurturing community that builds character and fosters respect for one another and our shared environment, locally and…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 15 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.
- Who funds BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT ↗
- Who funds THE COVENANT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MOCKINGBIRD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEFFERSON COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Nancy H and William J Gordon Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nancy H and William J Gordon Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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