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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 FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$78k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $389
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $395k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $233k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMY$77,500
HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE$55,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$50,000
KENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION$50,000
HIGHLANDS SCHOOL$38,429
GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE$37,450
NORTH CARROLL COMMUNITY SCHOOL$30,000
ARTS FOR LEARNING$30,000
JEWELS SCHOOL$30,000
MARYLAND FOOD BANK$30,000
BALTIMORE CHILD ABUSE CENTER$25,000
SINAI HOSPITAL PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY$25,000
ITINERIS FOUNDATION$25,000
NOLAN ROBISON FOUNDATION$24,000
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$20,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $50k → 17%NORTH CARROLL COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $60k → 6%HIGHLANDS SCHOOL: $38k → 7%GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE: $67k → 11%BALTIMORE CHILD ABUSE CENTER: $25k → 19%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $25k → 17%NORTH CARROLL COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $60k → 6%GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE: $42k → 11%SAINT IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMY: $78k → 19%NORTH CARROLL COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $40k → 6%HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE: $65k → 7%GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE: $37k → 11%BALTIMORE CHILD ABUSE CENTER: $25k → 19%NORTH CARROLL COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $37k → 6%HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE: $55k → 7%SAINT IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMY: $70k → 19%NORTH CARROLL COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $30k → 6%HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE: $55k → 7%JEWELS SCHOOL: $100k → 11%BALTIMORE CHILD ABUSE CENTER: $25k → 19%HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE: $55k → 7%JEWELS SCHOOL: $30k → 11%SAINT IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMY: $57k → 19%HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE: $30k → 7%JEWELS SCHOOL: $30k → 11%BALTIMORE CHILD ABUSE CENTER: $25k → 19%SAINT IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMY: $53k → 19%ST IGANTIUS LOYOLA ACADEMY: $44k → 11%MARYLAND FOOD BANK: $60k → 11%MARYLAND FOOD BANK: $30k → 11%ITINERIS FOUNDATION: $50k → 19%MARYLAND FOOD BANK: $25k → 11%ITINERIS FOUNDATION: $50k → 19%MARYLAND FOOD BANK: $25k → 11%ITINERIS FOUNDATION: $50k → 19%MARYLAND FOOD BANK: $25k → 11%MISSION FIT: $34k → 19%ITINERIS FOUNDATION: $25k → 19%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER CHESAPEAKE INC: $25k → 19%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER CHESAPEAKE INC: $25k → 19%ITINERIS FOUNDATION: $25k → 19%THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND: $34k → 19%THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND: $30k → 19%KENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION: $50k → 19%ARTS FOR LEARNING: $30k → 19%ARTS FOR LEARNING: $30k → 19%YOUNG AUDIENCES: $40k → 19%BANNER NEIGHBORHOODS: $30k → 19%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 28 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -13% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
3

Total granted

$2.6M
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
-13%

Still filing today

71%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
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

  • HF
    HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $260k · revenue +178%
  • NC
    NORTH CARROLL COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $227k · revenue +239%
  • IF
    Itineris Foundation Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • SI
    ST IGANTIUS LOYOLA ACADEMY
    one grant, 2020 · $44k
  • MI
    Maryland Institute
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -13%
  • MC
    MYERBERG CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
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
The Mclean School of Maryland Inc

Mclean school's small classes and abilities model prepare bright students in kindergarten through twelfth grade, including those with dyslexia, anxiety, and attention issues, for college success.

Education
2
The Maryland School for the Blind

As a statewide resource center, the school provides outreach, educational and residential services for students to reach their fullest potential by preparing them to be as successful, independent, and well-rounded contributing members of…

Education
3
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
4
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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5
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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6
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
7
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
8
Capitol Hill Day School

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…

Education
9
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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10
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
11
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
12
Hh Medstar Health Inc

Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gateway Maryland Inc; the most unlike its peers is Itineris Foundation Inc. 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, 2017–2025.

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. 23 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC: $260,000 · OtherHARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INCSAINT IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMY: $256,500 · OtherSAINT IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMYTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $165,000 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INCGILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC: $157,865 · OtherGILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INCYOUNG AUDIENCES: $80,000 · OtherYOUNG AUDIENCESBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CHESAPEAKE INC: $70,000 · OtherST FRANCIS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $68,000 · OtherARTS FOR LEARNING: $60,000 · Other+9 more: $223,486 · Other+9 moreNORTH CARROLL COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $227,000 · EducationNORTH CARROLL COMMUNITY…JEWELS SCHOOL INC: $160,000 · EducationJEWELS SCHOOL INCTHE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND: $63,958 · EducationTHE SEED SCHOOL OF MARY…THE HIGHLANDS SCHOOL INC: $54,829 · EducationTHE HIGHLANDS SCHOOL IN…CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND BALTIMORE: $50,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP …+1 more: $8,333 · EducationItineris Foundation Inc: $200,000 · HealthItineris Foundati…NOLAN ROBISON FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · HealthNOLAN ROBISON FOU…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $75,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'…LEVINDALE AUXILIARY INC: $39,745 · HealthLEVINDALE AUXILIA…BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $85,000 · Arts & CultureMARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $60,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR HOPE INC: $100,000 · Crime & LegalMISSIONFIT: $90,279 · Youth DevelopmentBANNER NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY CORP: $50,000 · Community ImprovementKENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,340,851Education$564,120Health$434,745Arts & Culture$145,000Crime & Legal$100,000Youth Development$90,279Community Improvement$50,000Philanthropy$50,000

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

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
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 HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CARROLL COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Itineris Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWELS SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds NOLAN ROBISON FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSIONFIT ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds THE HIGHLANDS SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BANNER NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY CORP ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND BALTIMORE ↗
  • Who funds KENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LEVINDALE AUXILIARY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAY MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds Maryland Institute ↗

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 Cen…The Harry and Jeanett…Baltimore Community F…Annie E Casey Foundat…T Rowe Price Program …The Marion I & Henry …T Rowe Price Foundati…The Abell Foundation …Associated Jewish Cha…The Aaron & Lillie St…The Joseph Meyerhoff …France-Merrick Founda…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Samuel & Margaret Gorn Foundation Attn David Goldner funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Samuel & Margaret Gorn Foundation Attn David Goldner. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Harford Family House Inc: 14% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Maryland Academy of Sciences: 9% of income from government
  • The Family Tree Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Banner Neighborhoods Community Corp: 6% of income from government
  • Jewels School Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Center for Hope Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report 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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Find your warmest path to The Samuel & Margaret Gorn Foundation Attn David Goldner 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 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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