· Private foundation
Defense Against Thought Control Foundation Inc C/O Lee Goldstein
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of DEFENSE AGAINST THOUGHT CONTROL FOUNDATION INC C/O LEE GOLDSTEIN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $265k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $400k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE | $1,500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD | $75,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| SURVIVORS INC | $50,000 |
| THE INTERCEPT FIRST LOOK MEDIA WORKS | $40,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE CONFERENCE OF THE NAACP | $30,000 |
| GREENPEACE | $25,000 |
| FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING | $20,000 |
| FREE SPEECH TV | $20,000 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND | $20,000 |
| NAACP LEGAL DEFENCE FUND | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATIONAL FUND | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
52 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- WSWESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $450k · revenue +12% · 48% of their budget
- NLNATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $450k · revenue +125% · 45% of their budget
- HRHuman Rights Defense Center Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $300k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- UFUNITED FARM WORKERS OF AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +29%
- OMOpen Media Engagement Networkone grant, 2019 · $1k
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +79%
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.
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The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resist Inc and the most unlike its peers is Western States Legal Foundation. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 56 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 FREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER INC ↗
- Who funds Human Rights Defense Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC ↗
- Who funds RESIST INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds Education For Just Peace in Middle East ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR BLACK STRUGGLE ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Catching the Dream ↗
- Who funds FOUR CORNERS HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIS-PUTTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED FARM WORKERS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · The Winky Foundation Co Wilmington Trust Co · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The New World Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Defense Against Thought Control Foundation Inc C/O Lee Goldstein 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.
- Masscreative Inc — 26% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- A Far Cry Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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.