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The Samuel & Margaret Gorn Foundation Attn David Goldner

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.

$628k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2024
18
Organizations funded FY2023
22%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$77,500
Organizations funded a year
16 to 20
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$7.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations The Samuel & Margaret Gorn Foundation Attn David Goldner funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationCrime & LegalHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving21$628k10%
FY202318$566k22%
FY202219$647k16%
FY202116$455k25%
FY202020$479kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$908kHealth$651kHousing & Shelter$260kArts & Culture$225kFood & Nutrition$165kYouth Development$160kHuman Services$144kCrime & Legal$100kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Harford Family House Inc$260,00054%
Saint Ignatius Loyola Academy$256,5004n/a
North Carroll Community School Inc$227,00054%
Itineris Foundation Inc$200,00056%
The Maryland Food Bank Inc$165,00050%
Jewels School Inc$160,00033%
Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc$157,86540%
Nolan Robison Foundation Inc$120,000515%
Center for Hope Inc$100,00040%
Missionfit$90,279516%
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All grantees of The Samuel & Margaret Gorn Foundation Attn David Goldner by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Harford Family House Inc$260,00054%
Saint Ignatius Loyola Academy$256,5004n/a
North Carroll Community School Inc$227,00054%
Itineris Foundation Inc$200,00056%
The Maryland Food Bank Inc$165,00050%
Jewels School Inc$160,00033%
Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc$157,86540%
Nolan Robison Foundation Inc$120,000515%
Center for Hope Inc$100,00040%
Missionfit$90,279516%
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc$85,00040%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$75,00020%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Chesapeake Inc$70,0003n/a
St Francis Neighborhood Center$68,00031%
The Seed School of Maryland$63,95820%
Maryland Academy of Sciences$60,00030%
The Highlands School Inc$54,82921%
Banner Neighborhoods Community Corp$50,00022%
Children's Scholarship Fund Baltimore$50,00023%
Kennedy Krieger Foundation Inc$50,00010%
Levindale Auxiliary Inc$39,745248%
The Family Tree Inc$35,00020%
Gateway Maryland Inc$20,00020%
Maryland Institute$8,33310%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($308k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Samuel & Margaret Gorn Foundation Attn David Goldner supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHarford Family House Inc: $260,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetNorth Carroll Community School Inc: $227,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetItineris Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetThe Maryland Food Bank Inc: $165,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJewels School Inc: $160,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetGilchrist Hospice Care Inc: $157,865 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNolan Robison Foundation Inc: $120,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetCenter for Hope Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMissionfit: $90,279 over 5y, 16% of budgetBaltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis Neighborhood Center: $68,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetThe Seed School of Maryland: $63,958 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMaryland Academy of Sciences: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Highlands School Inc: $54,829 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBanner Neighborhoods Community Corp: $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetChildren's Scholarship Fund Baltimore: $50,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetKennedy Krieger Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLevindale Auxiliary Inc: $39,745 over 2y, 48% of budgetThe Family Tree Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGateway Maryland Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMaryland Institute: $8,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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 United Way of Central Maryland IncMD29.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Abell Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Aaron & Lillie Straus Fdn Inc 9830002 · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc

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.

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About The Samuel & Margaret Gorn Foundation Attn David Goldner

How much does The Samuel & Margaret Gorn Foundation Attn David Goldner give?
The Samuel & Margaret Gorn Foundation Attn David Goldner reported 21 grants totaling $627,768 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Samuel & Margaret Gorn Foundation Attn David Goldner fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Health (23%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
Who are The Samuel & Margaret Gorn Foundation Attn David Goldner's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Harford Family House Inc ($260k), Saint Ignatius Loyola Academy ($257k), North Carroll Community School Inc ($227k).
Does The Samuel & Margaret Gorn Foundation Attn David Goldner fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Samuel & Margaret Gorn Foundation Attn David Goldner accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Samuel & Margaret Gorn Foundation Attn David Goldner?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The United Way of Central Maryland Inc, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc, Baltimore Community Foundation Inc.
Where is The Samuel & Margaret Gorn Foundation Attn David Goldner based?
The Samuel & Margaret Gorn Foundation Attn David Goldner is based in MD.

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 33 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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