· Private foundation
Edward W Golden Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORRIS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| COLUMBIA GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| TRI-VILLAGE FIRE COMPANY | $10,000 |
| COLUMBIA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIET | $10,000 |
| FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS OF COL CTY | $10,000 |
| CHATHAM AREA SILENT FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| COLUMBIA GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| COLUMBIA CO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HUDSON YOUTH INC | $10,000 |
| CHATHAM CENTER CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| GHENT FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| ZION COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| THE LILY POND SANCTUARY INC | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOSPICE OF COLGREENE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CHCOLUMBIA-GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +79%
- MMMORRIS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +118%
- CCCOLUMBIA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +49%
Funded once
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.
To provide temporary, humane care, food, water, shelter and medical attention for stray, homeless, abandoned, neglected and abused animals
Friends for animal rescue ny, inc. is a nonprofit organization that furthers the interest of animals in the new york state area and improves their quality of life by supporting medical care, enrichment activities, training and…
The purpose of the organization shall be to provide fire protection, ambulance, and other emergency service protection to the colton fire district and the territory in which the operations of the organization are principally conducted, the…
Prevention of cruelty to animals
To promote the adoption of animals, prevent all forms of animal cruelty and neglect and shelter
distribute petfood to the needy
Provide fire protection, emergency medical services and all other emergency responses as dispatched by columbia county 911.
To help with feral cats in chatham co
The prevention of cruelty and neglect of animals; the enforecement of all laws which are now or may hereafter be enacted for the protection of animals; the lawful prosecution and conviction of any person or persons violating such laws; the…
Enforce NYS laws against animal cruelty and abuse. Promote animal welfare and find homes for abandoned and unwanted pets.
Columbia Gorge Humane Society is committed to promoting healthy, safe and lifelong relationships between people and their pets through sustainable programs of education, adoption and spay/neutering. We will endeavor to fight for the abused…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chatham Rescue Squad Inc and the most unlike its peers is Family Resource Centers of Columbia County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 18 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 Family Resource Centers of Columbia County ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MORRIS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-VILLAGE FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HUDSON YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds GHENT FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM AREA SILENT PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE LILY POND SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds EQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED ↗
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.
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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 Edward W Golden 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.