· Private foundation
The Winifred M Gordon Foundation Inc Anne Dierdorff Thomas President
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICA | $58,500 |
| TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| HAMMOND HARWOOD HOUSE | $5,500 |
| ST ANNE'S CHURCH | $4,100 |
| MACGUFFIN THEATRE AND FILM COMPANY | $3,900 |
| ANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL | $3,900 |
| FORSTER WOODS ADULT DAY SERVICES | $3,400 |
| ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| ST PAUL'S CHURCH | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL ACCESSIBLE BOATING | $3,000 |
| SOUTH FELLOWSHIP CHURCH | $1,700 |
| SERVANTS OF CHRIST INTERNATIONAL | $1,700 |
| SPA CREEK CONSERVANCY | $1,500 |
| THE ANNAPOLIS CHORALE DBA LIVE ARTS MARYLAND | $1,400 |
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 (FY23–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
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.
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 +58% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- MIMaryland Institute6× · 2017–2022 · $318k · revenue +1%
- MIMICA INC3× · 2023–2025 · $171k · revenue +5%
- Y4YOGA 4 CHANGE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $32k · revenue +555%
Funded once
- NLNEW LIFE MINISTRY (ECHO REACH)one grant, 2020 · $2k
- AVASPEN VALLEY TRUST (FOR HIGHWATER FARM)one grant, 2020 · $2k
- ESEWE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +12%
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.
To provide strong advocacy for businesses, vibrant networking that helps businesses expand their customer base, and unparalleled access to resources important for businesses to grow and succeed throughout anne arundel co
The annapolis waterfront center is dedicted to celebrating, sharing and enhancing the maritime heritage of annapolis by inclusively engaging residents, students, visitors, and the entire community in universally accessible boating,…
To promote business and economic development through network opportunities, community involvement, education and legislative liaison.
The mission of aedc is to grow a prosperous, sustainable and diverse economy. aedc has been in operation since 1987 as a private nonprofit corporation (irs code 501(c)(6). it exists to encourage economic growth and diversity in anchorage,…
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
The mission of the annapolis opera company is to be a cultural touchstone for the community, which delights audiences with musical storytelling engages new audiences with diverse programming that inspires curiosity for opera and attracts…
To conserve and restore the natural and cultural resources of the chesapeake bay watershed for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations. we serve as a catalyst for change, advancing strong public and private…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
To develop and operate innovative reuse, recycling, and zero-waste programs that improve the environmental quality of our community.
The mission of chesapeake charities, inc. is to provide innovative leadership and quality services that encourage charitable giving, build community resources, and enable donors continued on schedule o
To create an entrepreneurial and innovative environment, nurturing business to launch, grow, and thrive.
To identify and support opportunities that expand the city's business tax base and promote job growth in Anna.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co and the most unlike its peers is Mica Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 44 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 Maryland Institute ↗
- Who funds MICA INC ↗
- Who funds YOGA 4 CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds MACGUFFIN THEATRE AND FILM COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds FORSTER WOODS ADULT DAY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE REGION ACCESSIBLE BOATING INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS 4 SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds SPA CREEK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSBURG EMERGENCY SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE ANNAPOLIS CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds Servants of Christ International ↗
- Who funds New Life Advance International Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL CO ↗
- Who funds Women's Center of Greater Lansing ↗
- Who funds EWE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Woods Community Center Inc dba Severna Park Community Center ↗
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: Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · William J and Dorothy K O'Neill Foundation Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Dea Code Family Foundation Inc · Arundel Community Development Services Inc · The Laurie & John Hopkins Charitable Trust · Edward Freitag & Martha Haley Fdn Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · Anne Arundel Economic Development Corporation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Winifred M Gordon Foundation Inc Anne Dierdorff Thomas President 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.
- Seeds 4 Success Inc — 48% of income from government
- Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc — 2% 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.