Tom Gores
American businessman and investor
Source: Wikidata — retrieved 10/11/2026 (wikidata)Dispute
Profile Summary
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Tom Gores is an American businessman and investor in California, born in 1964, with an estimated net worth of ~$10.1B Wikidata. SEC records identify him as associated with Platinum Equity, LLC and list filings connected to companies including Verra Mobility, Vertiv Holdings, Ryerson Holding, and Yatra Online SEC EDGAR.
Business & SEC Activity
SEC EDGAR lists 70 insider ownership filings for Gores, including recent Form 4 filings dated June 17, May 8, March 31, and March 11, 2026 SEC EDGAR. Form 4 reports changes in an insider's ownership of a public company's securities, while Form 3 is an initial statement of beneficial ownership; his recent filings also include Form 3 reports on January 20, 2026, July 23, 2025, and October 23, 2024 SEC EDGAR.
Philanthropy
The Gores Foundation reported $622 in grants paid, $5,084 in assets, $1 in revenue, and $622 in expenses for tax year 2024 ProPublica 990. The Tom Gores Family Foundation reported $75,000 in grants paid, $2,031 in assets, $75,000 in revenue, and $75,253 in expenses for tax year 2023; together, the two foundations reported $75,622 in grants paid and $7,115 in assets ProPublica 990.
Political Activity
FEC records show 36 contributions totaling $108,062.50 between October 22, 1996, and May 26, 2016 FEC. The party breakdown was $52,143.75 to Democratic recipients, $50,000 classified as Unknown, $5,400 to Republican recipients, and $518.75 to Democratic–Farmer–Labor recipients FEC. The largest listed recipients were Hillary Victory Fund ($50,000), DNC Services Corp./Democratic National Committee ($33,400), the Republican National Committee ($5,400), Hillary for America ($2,700), and Swett for Senate ($1,000) FEC.
These donations are matched to this person by name only, so some may belong to a different person with the same name: FEC filings can include a donor's employer and city, but our matching does not check them against what we know about this person.
In the News
July 2026 local news reports said Gores contributed or pledged $20 million toward construction of the Brennan Community Center at Rouge Park on Detroit's west side NewsAPI. The reports said the project broke ground on June 25 and described it as District 7's first indoor recreation center NewsAPI.
U.S. Presence
Philanthropy
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Political Contributions
By Party
Every party on file is listed here. The bars are rounded for display; unrounded they total exactly $108,062.50.
Top Recipients
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SEC Filings
Associated Companies
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Recent Insider Filings
Score Breakdown
The giving score is a weighted average of 2 components. The formula is open and versioned — the weight percentages below show how much each component contributes to the final score.
Evidenced charitable giving — built on what they actually give each year, not parked assets. Dominated by generosity (annual giving relative to net worth — the share of your fortune you give), plus the absolute scale of that giving, plus a small nudge for signing the Giving Pledge (a commitment, not a realized action).
Data: ProPublica 990 charitable disbursements, net worth, The Giving Pledge registry
How much sourced public record we hold about this person — net worth, SEC filings, foundation 990s, news coverage, Wikidata. It measures our coverage, not how open the person is. Each further kind of record scores higher, up to eight. Political donation records matched to a person by name alone are not counted: they may belong to someone else with the same name. From October 7, 2026, our own AI-written summary and the profile photo are not counted either — neither is a public record — so grades that leaned on them moved down that day.
Data: SEC EDGAR, ProPublica 990s, GDELT / NewsAPI, Wikidata
Formula (v2): Giving score = 65% x Philanthropy + 35% x Data coverage
Scored on 10/16/2026 on a 0–100 scale. The score uses only the signals we have populated data for. Goal Impact, Controversy, and Community Approval are deferred until that data exists — Phase 1 goal adoption, controversy detection, and community votes respectively.
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