· Private foundation
Thomas J Gordon Foundation
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAS CAMPANAS COMMUNITY FUNDS | $10,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $3,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY USA | $1,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH SANTA FE | $500 |
| THE MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART | $100 |
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 (FY17–17, $275) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- SVST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2022 · $39k · revenue +55%
- MHMemorial Hermann Foundation2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +13%
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D3× · 2019–2021 · $950 · revenue +26%
Funded once
- BGBIGHORN GOLF CLUB CHARITIES INCone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -17%
- HFHONORHEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- TNTHE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUMone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.
The tmc health foundation supports the charitable mission of tucson medical center and is dedicated to improving the health and quality of life in our community.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
We, saint agnes medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint agnes medical foundation is a member of saint agnes medical…
The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…
The heard museum connects indigenous creativity to the world by presenting the voice and vision of american indian artists.
Phoenix art museum creates spaces of exchange and belonging for all audiences through dynamic exhibitions, collections, and experiences with art. this mission is supported by seven strategic pillars:(continued on schedule o)1. be a space…
The mission of st. vincent foundation ("the foundation") was to develop partnerships to support the philanthropic needs of st. vincent medical center ("svmc") by raising funds through grants, special events and donors.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Hermann Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Peace of Mind 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 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 12% 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.
21 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. 21 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 ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Museum of Western Art ↗
- Who funds BIGHORN GOLF CLUB CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
- Who funds PEACE OF MIND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIRLFRIEND FACTOR ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC ↗
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: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · 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 Thomas J Gordon 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.
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.