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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of THE SAMUEL & MARGARET GORN FOUNDATION ATTN DAVID GOLDNER’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $389
- $10k–50k16 grants · $395k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $233k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| JEWELS SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| NORTH CARROLL COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| ARTS FOR LEARNING | $30,000 |
| BALTIMORE CHILD ABUSE CENTER | $25,000 |
| ITINERIS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SINAI HOSPITAL PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY | $25,000 |
| NOLAN ROBISON FOUNDATION | $24,000 |
| BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $20,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- HFHARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $260k · revenue +178%
- NCNORTH CARROLL COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $227k · revenue +239%
- IFItineris Foundation Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- SIST IGANTIUS LOYOLA ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $44k
- MIMaryland Instituteone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -13%
- MCMYERBERG CENTERone grant, 2020 · $6k
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.
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.
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
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…
Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gateway Maryland Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 33 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 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 KENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BANNER NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY CORP ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds LEVINDALE AUXILIARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Maryland Institute ↗
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: 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
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 Samuel & Margaret Gorn Foundation Attn David Goldner 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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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