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The Nathan & Priscilla Gordon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOUISIANA MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS INC | $50,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS INC | $50,000 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND | $5,000 |
| THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY A COLORADO NON-PROFIT CO | $5,000 |
| LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS JAZZ CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION INC | $4,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC | $1,500 |
| NEW ORLEANS JAZZ CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION INC | $1,000 |
| ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of The Nathan & Priscilla Gordon Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $357k · revenue +36%
- TLThe Louisiana Museum Foundation5× · 2020–2025 · $142k · revenue +106%
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $5k
- AFAmerica First Legal Foundationone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.
Jazz st louis is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to lead our community in advancing the uniquely american art of jazz through performance, education, and community engagement.
The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.
See Disclosure Above.
The foundation for sfjazz is a ca non-for-profit corporation organized on september 14, 2011. the foundation, whose sole member is san francisco jazz organization, was specifically organized for the exclusive benefit of the organization.…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
36 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. 36 of the 39 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Louisiana Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of New Orleans Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS JAZZ ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS JAZZ CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION INC ↗
- Who funds America First Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds WARREN EASTON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC DBA WARREN EASTON CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUE THE VOTE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL AND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO JAZZ INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds RENO JAZZ ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Colorado Conservatory For the Jazz Arts ↗
- Who funds CITY PARK JAZZ INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH QUARTER FESTIVALS INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Beauregard-Keyes House Inc ↗
- Who funds VIEUX CARRE COMMISSION FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ella West Freeman Foundation · The Helis Foundation · New Orleans Theatre Association Inc · Goldring Family Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · The Alex Berger Foundation · Gia Maione Prima Foundation · Leslie Fund Inc · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Bentson Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher 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 Nathan & Priscilla Gordon Foundation 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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