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Bruce K Gould Foundation Inc at a glance

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Bruce K Gould Foundation Inc

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.

$432k
Granted FY2023
18
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$388kEducation$147kReligion$71kPhilanthropy$24kHealth$18kInternational$17kHuman Services$8kCommunity Improvement$4kOther$0
02FY2023 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k13 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $87k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $303k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ohr Hatzfun Hidden Light Institute$200,000
Holocaust Center$103,172
Touro College and University$41,755
University of Central Florida$27,500
Orlando Torah Academy$18,000
United Arts of Central Florida$7,500
Alzheimer's Assn$5,050
Ne'eman Foundation$5,000
Giving Back Fund$5,000
Chabad of North Orlando$3,960
Faena Arts$3,109
American Diabetes Assn$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,680
Jewish Funders Network$1,817
Orlando Shakes Theater$1,350
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Sunrise Day Camp: $250 → 6%Sunrise Day Camp: $250 → 6%Jewish Family Services: $2k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$625k · 14 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
12

Total granted

$625k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+6%

Still filing today

50%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OH
    OHR HATZAFUN PRODUCTIONS D/B/A HIDDEN LIGHT INSTITUTE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $260k · revenue +65% · 44% of their budget
  • OT
    ORLANDO TORAH ACADEMY INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +60%
  • UA
    UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • II
    INTERNATIONAL ISRAEL ALLIES CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +0%
  • HO
    Hillel of Central Florida
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k
  • GF
    Ginsburg Family Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +242%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
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
The Goldenberg Family Foundation
Philanthropy
5
University of Judaism Foundation
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6
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
7
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
8
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
9
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
10
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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11
Gainesville Jewish Student Foundation Inc

The gainesville jewish student foundation, inc. (known as schilit hillel at uf) mission: schilit hillel at uf enriches the lives of jewish students, inspiring them to make an enduring commitment to jewish life, learning, and israel

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12
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Holocaust Center: $109,714 · OtherHolocaust CenterTouro College and University: $82,545 · OtherTouro College and UniversityUniversity of Central Florida: $61,700 · OtherUniversity of Central FloridaJewish Federation of GO: $34,972 · OtherJewish Federation of GO+15 more: $44,319 · Other+15 moreOHR HATZAFUN PRODUCTIONS D/B/A HIDDEN LIGHT INSTITUTE: $260,000 · Arts & CultureOHR HATZAFUN PRODUCTIONS D/B/A HIDDEN LIGHT IN…UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $12,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $5,109 · Arts & CultureORLANDO TORAH ACADEMY INC: $25,308 · Education+1 more: $360 · EducationINTERNATIONAL ISRAEL ALLIES CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · InternationalNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $6,800 · InternationalGinsburg Family Foundation Inc: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $5,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $4,015 · PhilanthropyAmerican Diabetes Association: $10,500 · HealthJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER ORLANDO INC: $1,869 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 · Human Services
Other$333,250Arts & Culture$277,609Education$25,668International$16,800Philanthropy$14,015Health$10,500Human Services$2,369

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOHR HATZAFUN PRODUCTIONS D/B/A HIDDEN LIGHT INSTITUTE: $260,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetORLANDO TORAH ACADEMY INC: $25,308 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ISRAEL ALLIES CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $6,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGinsburg Family Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $4,015 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAENA ARTS INC: $3,109 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER ORLANDO INC: $1,869 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMAN'S CLUB OF WINTER PARK INC: $892 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds OHR HATZAFUN PRODUCTIONS D/B/A HIDDEN LIGHT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ORLANDO TORAH ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL ISRAEL ALLIES CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NE EMAN FOUNDATION USA ↗
  • Who funds Ginsburg Family Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds FAENA ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER ORLANDO INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMAN'S CLUB OF WINTER PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds MACCABI USA INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Central Florida Found…Ginsburg Family Found…Elizabeth Morse Geniu…Universal Orlando Fou…The Dr P Phillips Fou…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Central Florida FoundationFL15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Florida Foundation · Ginsburg Family Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · The Dr P Phillips Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bruce K Gould Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bruce K Gould Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Orlando Science Centerinc: 4% of income from government
  • United Arts of Central Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Ginsburg Family Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Bruce K Gould Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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