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Edwin Gould Foundation for Children

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$5.1M
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$8.5MHuman Services$547kEmployment$502kPhilanthropy$120kPublic Benefit$99kScience & Tech$91kHealth$55kCommunity Improvement$47kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $346k
  • $250k+2 grants · $5.4M
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY$5,122,500
GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES$265,000
GENESYS WORKS$75,000
THE ART OF PROBLEM SOLVING FOUNDATION-BEAM$75,000
UASPIRE$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
TEACH FOR AMERICA$5,000
GLOBAL GLIMPSE$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $30k → 16%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $265k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $100k → 17%THE INSPIRED COMMUNITY PROJECT: $5k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $100k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $80k → 17%GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT: $1k → 17%GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT: $1k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NJ
CA
DE
AZ
DC
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.6M · 38 repeat orgs$444k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
64

Total granted

$9.6M
$361k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+5%

Still filing today

58%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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

  • SF
    SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +313%
  • GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES
    4× · 2017–2024 · $545k · revenue +33%
  • GW
    GENESYS WORKS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $402k · revenue +302%

Funded once

  • INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +9%
  • BA
    BEAM-THE ART OF PROBLEM SOLVING FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $13k
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
Futures Ignite Inc

We amplify youth and community power by inspiring, guiding, and advocating for youth to determine their college, career, and leadership futures.

Human Services
2
Inroads Inc

To deliver innovative leadership development programs and creative solutions that identify, accelerate, and elevate underrepresented talent throughout their careers.

Education
3
The Urban Assembly Inc

To advance students' economic and social mobility by improving public education.

International
4
The Teak Fellowship Inc

To help academically talented new york city students from low-income families earn admission into the most selective secondary schools and colleges.

Human Services
5
Reach Prep Inc

Provide transformative educational experiences that empower underserved students

Education
6
Equal Opportunity Schools

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…

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
The Partnership for After School Education Inc

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…

Education
9
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

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…

Education
10
New York Hall of Science

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Ie New York College

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Education
12
AI4ALL

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.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network; 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.
04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 121 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/54
Grantees still filing
31/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $5,780,310 · EducationSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INCUASPIRE INC: $454,625 · EducationUASPIRE INCGENESYS WORKS: $402,450 · EducationGENESYS WORKS+26 more: $568,945 · Education+26 moreEDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION: $387,500 · OtherEDUCATION WRITERS ASSOC…THE ART OF PROBLEM SOLVING FOUNDATION-BEAM: $299,659 · OtherTHE ART OF PROBLEM SOLV…HECHINGER INSTITUTE TEACHERS COLLEGE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $210,000 · OtherHECHINGER INSTITUTE TEA…THE BRONX INSTITUTE: $175,000 · OtherTHE BRONX INSTITUTEGLOBAL GLIMPSE: $154,500 · OtherGLOBAL GLIMPSEONEGOAL: $152,695 · OtherONEGOALTEACHERS COLLEGE HECHINGER INSTITUTE: $105,000 · OtherLAST MILE TALENT DEVELOPMENT INC: $100,000 · OtherHISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY: $99,757 · Other+67 more: $424,250 · Other+67 moreGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $545,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC: $30,000 · Human Services+2 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $91,500 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,030 · PhilanthropySAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Crime & LegalNew Pathways For Youth: $10,000 · Crime & LegalFUTURE LEADERS IN ACTION INC: $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentSPEAKHIRE INC: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentNAVIGATE THE MAZE TO ACHIEVEMENT INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentEXALT YOUTH: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentMUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET: $10,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND CENTER INC DBA NYC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS: $5,000 · Environment
Education$7,206,330Other$2,108,361Human Services$582,000Philanthropy$107,530Crime & Legal$20,000Youth Development$19,000Environment$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $5,780,310 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $545,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUASPIRE INC: $454,625 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetGENESYS WORKS: $402,450 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetEDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION: $387,500 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetCollegespring Inc: $126,685 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetLATINO U COLLEGE ACCESS INC: $100,657 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetKURA LABS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetHISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY: $99,757 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $91,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Education Trust Inc: $57,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $39,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICA NEEDS YOU: $20,160 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC: $19,330 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $14,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLEGAL OUTREACH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA ON TECH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNew Pathways For Youth: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL COLLEGE ATTAINMENT NETWORK: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFUTURE LEADERS IN ACTION INC: $7,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetLIBERATED SUCCESS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetGlobal Glimpse: $6,313 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPEAKHIRE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND CENTER INC DBA NYC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCLE MATCH A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetSTART LIGHTHOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDYSLEXIA ALLIANCE FOR BLACK CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNAVIGATE THE MAZE TO ACHIEVEMENT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBROOKLYN DEBATE LEAGUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetReplications Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANARSIE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 73% of budgetREADWORKSINC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALMOST FUN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC: $4,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE ENGINE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTEGRATENYC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMERCY UNIVERSITY: $1,000 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 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 SAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA ON TECH INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET ↗
  • Who funds New Pathways For Youth ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COLLEGE ATTAINMENT NETWORK ↗

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.

Pinkerton FoundationRobin Hood FoundationThe New York Communit…The Heckscher Foundat…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Brooklyn Community Fo…The Hyde and Watson F…The Keith Haring Foun…Gates FoundationTiger FoundationGray FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…
Pinkerton FoundationNY23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Edwin Gould Foundation for Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edwin Gould Foundation for Children. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Uaspire Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 Edwin Gould Foundation for Children 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 121 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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