· Private foundation
Edwin Gould Foundation for Children
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $346k
- $250k+2 grants · $5.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY | $5,122,500 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES | $265,000 |
| UASPIRE | $75,000 |
| GENESYS WORKS | $75,000 |
| THE ART OF PROBLEM SOLVING FOUNDATION-BEAM | $75,000 |
| FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $70,500 |
| LATINO U COLLEGE ACCESS | $50,000 |
| HECHINGER INSTITUTE TEACHERS COLLEGE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| EDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION | $35,000 |
| ST PAUL & ST ANDREW UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| EGF FELLOWS PROGRAM - INSPIRING FUTURES INC | $7,500 |
| EGF FELLOWS PROGRAM - ADMISSIONSQUAD INC | $7,000 |
| EGF FELLOWS PROGRAM - NEW NEIGHBORS PARTNERSHIP ASSOCIATION | $7,000 |
| EGF FELLOWS PROGRAM - AUXILIARY POLICE SUPER BEN ASSOC OF THE CITY OF NY | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL GLIMPSE | $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 (FY17–24, $582k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 19 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
- SFSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +313%
GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES4× · 2017–2024 · $545k · revenue +33%- GWGENESYS WORKS7× · 2018–2024 · $402k · revenue +302%
Funded once
INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +9%- BABEAM-THE ART OF PROBLEM SOLVING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $13k
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.
We amplify youth and community power by inspiring, guiding, and advocating for youth to determine their college, career, and leadership futures.
To deliver innovative leadership development programs and creative solutions that identify, accelerate, and elevate underrepresented talent throughout their careers.
To advance students' economic and social mobility by improving public education.
To help academically talented new york city students from low-income families earn admission into the most selective secondary schools and colleges.
Provide transformative educational experiences that empower underserved students
Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The partnership for after school education is a child-focused organization that promotes and supports quality after school programs, particularly those serving young people from underserved communities. the partnership for after school…
To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
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Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network and the most unlike its peers is Speakhire Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 121 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 SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds GENESYS WORKS ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Collegespring Inc ↗
- Who funds LATINO U COLLEGE ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds KURA LABS INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds The Education Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA NEEDS YOU ↗
- Who funds YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LEGAL OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA ON TECH INC ↗
- Who funds New Pathways For Youth ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COLLEGE ATTAINMENT NETWORK ↗
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: Pinkerton Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Heckscher Foundation for Children · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Keith Haring Foundation Inc · Gates Foundation · Tiger Foundation · Gray Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
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 Edwin Gould Foundation for Children 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.
- United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% 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.
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