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The Tom Gores Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$180k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Youth Development$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.1MHealth$800kEducation$150kFood & Nutrition$75kRecreation & Sports$50kHuman Services$30kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY$100,000
NF FORWARD$50,000
TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS$30,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%WORLD OF CHILDREN INC: $10k → 10%LEARNING LAB VENTURES: $50k → 14%TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $25k → 13%FORGOTTEN HARVEST: $50k → 8%FRIENDS OF FLINT FARMERS: $25k → 16%CFSEM - COVID 19: $100k → 21%RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST: $25k → 9%DON'T EVER GIVE UP INC: $500k → 8%STERLING DONOR ADVISED FUND: $1.0M → 6%TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS: $30k → 7%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $25k → 13%MICHIGAN JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $25k → 8%NF FORWARD: $50k → 21%STERLING DONOR ADVISED FUND: $6k → 6%UCLA MATTEL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $25k → 14%NF FORWARD DETROIT: $25k → 21%2021 NF beNeFit IX: $25k → 21%2020 NFF GALA: $25k → 21%THE YUNION: $75k → 21%ILITCH CHARITIES: $25k → 21%Operation Graduation: $1.0M → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

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The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
2
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

The foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with parkinson's today.

Health
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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6
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
7
Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation

To fund research to discover cures and more effective treatments for neuroendocrine cancers. the netrf is committed to improving the lives of those affected by neuroendocrine cancer by providing information & educational resources.

Health
8
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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9
Lymphoma Research Foundation

To eradicate lymphoma and serve those touched by this disease.

Health
10
The V Foundation

We fund game-changing research and all-star scientists to accelerate victory over cancer and save lives.

Health
11
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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12
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Don't Ever Give Up Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors 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

15 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. 15 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OPERATION GRADUATION — $1,000,000 · EducationOPERATION GRADUATIONCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY — $100,000 · EducationCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY+1 more — $25,000 · EducationTHE STERLING DONOR ADVISED FUND — $1,006,000 · PhilanthropyTHE STERLING DONOR ADVISED FUNDPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC — $500,000 · HealthDON'T EVER GIVE UP INCNFX — $50,000 · HealthNFXTOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC — $50,000 · HealthTOURETTE ASSOCIATION O…TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC — $30,000 · HealthRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC — $25,000 · HealthCFSEM - COVID 19 — $100,000 · OtherCFSEM - C…LEARNING LAB VENTURES INC — $50,000 · OtherLEARNING …Individual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherIndividua…FRIENDS OF FLINT FARMERS — $25,000 · OtherFRIENDS O…2021 NF beNeFit IX — $25,000 · Other2021 NF b…2020 NFF GALA — $25,000 · Other2020 NFF …ILITCH CHARITIES — $25,000 · OtherILITCH CH…WORLD OF CHILDREN INC — $10,000 · Other+1 more — $2,500 · OtherTHE YUNION — $75,000 · AnimalsFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $50,000 · Food & NutritionTHE MICHIGAN JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC — $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,125,000Philanthropy$1,056,000Health$655,000Other$287,500Animals$75,000Food & Nutrition$50,000Arts & Culture$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE STERLING DONOR ADVISED FUND — $1,006,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetOPERATION GRADUATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC — $500,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YUNION — $75,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNFX — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLEARNING LAB VENTURES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MICHIGAN JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC — $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD OF CHILDREN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Tom Gores Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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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    How do I get to The Tom Gores Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Tom Gores Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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