Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable
Palm Beach, FL · EIN 04-3434410. Reported 73 grants totalling $930,491 to 43 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
3 of the organizations Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable funded make grants themselves, and it reported 6 grants totalling $135,976 to them. That is 36% of the $379,199 of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc | federated giving programme | Florida | $95,868 | 4 | 3 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| United Way of Palm Beach County Inc | federated giving programme | Florida | $20,108 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | Its form does not ask |
| Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc | federated giving programme | Florida | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $5,027. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $108 and the largest $101,100.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $201,466 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Yale University Donated Securities Account | New Haven, CT | $100,261 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County | West Palm Beach, FL | $95,508 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boston Children's Hospital | Boston, MA | $83,148 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Palm Beach Synagogue | Palm Beach, FL | $81,662 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $50,178 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Temple Emanu-El of Palm Beach | Palm Beach, FL | $31,843 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee | New York, NY | $30,054 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Town in Palm Beach United Way | West Palm Beach, FL | $29,544 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pine Crest School | Boca Raton, FL | $25,588 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pine Crest Preparatory School Development | Boca Raton, FL | $25,492 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Red Sneakers for Oakley Inc | Palm Beach, FL | $21,821 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc | Palm Beach, FL | $20,651 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| United Way of Palm Beach County | West Palm Beach, FL | $20,108 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Palm Beach United Way | Palm Beach, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Town of Palm Beach United Way | West Palm Beach, FL | $15,107 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Israel Tennis Centers Foundation | New York, NY | $15,060 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| United Way (ukraine Emergency) | Gaithersburg, MD | $10,053 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| South Florida Science Museum | West Palm Beach, FL | $9,953 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Baptist Health South Florida Foundation | Gables, FL | $5,092 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Promise Fund of Floria | Palm Beach, FL | $5,027 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| South Florida Science Musuem | West Palm Beach, FL | $5,027 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jewish National Fund | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Alliance for Eating Disorders | West Palm Beach, FL | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Middle East Forum | Philadelphia, PA | $3,112 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $2,143 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc #5 | New York, NY | $2,018 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pbcc Foundation | Weston, MA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alzheimers Foundation | New York, NY | $1,097 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| America Israel Democracy Coalition | Bryn Mawr, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Foundation for the Middle East Forum | Philadelphia, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Opportunity Inc | West Palm Beach, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Palm Beach Country Club Foundation | Palm Beach, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Palm Beach Freedom Institute | Palm Beach, FL | $595 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School | Chicago, IL | $540 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Alpert Jewish Family Service | West Palm Beach, FL | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Georgia Innocence Project | Atlanta, GA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Memri | Washington, DC | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Middle East Media Research Institute (memri) | Washington, DC | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Latin School of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $375 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jewish Federation of Palm Beach | West Palm Beach, FL | $360 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Touro Synagogue | Wellington, FL | $108 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
15 of 43 (35%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 55%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Yale University
TO SUPPORT IMPROVING THE WORLD TODAY AND FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS THROUGH OUTSTANDING RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP, EDUCATION, PRESERVATION, AND PRACTICE. - Yale University Donated Securities Account
TO FUND CHARITABLE PURPOSE OF ORGANIZATION - The Palm Beach Synagogue Inc
TO SUPPORT A WELCOMING COMMUNITY FOR JEWS OF ALL BACKGROUNDS - Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc
TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT, INTELLECTUALLY INSPIRED STUDENTS WHO ARE PREPARED TO CHANGE THE WORLD. - Boston Children's Hospital
TO SUPPORT PROVIDING THE HIGHEST QUALITY HEALTHCARE; ENHANCE THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES LOCALLY, REGIONALLY, NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY. - Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County
TO SUPPORT TRANSFORMING, INSPIRING, AND SAVING LIVES IN THE PALM BEACHES, ISRAEL, AND 70 COUNTRIES GLOBALLY.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 43 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 18 | $121,339 | $3,793 |
| 2022 | 24 | $267,167 | $3,467 |
| 2023 | 13 | $279,335 | $15,107 |
| 2024 | 18 | $262,650 | $4,250 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
50% of its giving went to organizations in Florida.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Benjamin and Elizabeth Gordon Charitable's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 260 Dunbar Road, Palm Beach, FL, 33480. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
EIN 04-3434410 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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