· Private foundation
Edward W Golden Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| MORRIS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| THE LILY POND SANCTUARY INC | $10,000 |
| CHATHAM RESCUE SQUAD | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCOLUMBIA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +49%
- CHCOLUMBIA-GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +79%
- MMMORRIS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +118%
Funded once
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Family Resource Centers of Columbia County ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MORRIS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · T Backer Fund Inc · Hrbt Foundation · Evelyn Bordewick Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edward W Golden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward W Golden Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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