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Goal Foundation Giving Opportunities for Adv in Life at a glance

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Goal Foundation Giving Opportunities for Adv in Life

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$225k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Education$942kArts & Culture$312kYouth Development$82kReligion$66kPhilanthropy$50kHealth$47kCivil Rights$25kEnvironment$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $128k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$50,552
EPIC CHURCH SAN FRANCISCO$29,585
Individual grant recipient$25,400
SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS$25,000
MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$18,017
Individual grant recipient$10,105
Individual grant recipient$10,000
ALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
DOG IS MY COPILOT$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Lake Tahoe Community Communication: $55k → 8%Segerstrom Center for Arts: $25k → 10%JIMMY WEHSENER: $25k → 10%Sacramento Youth Center: $10k → 12%CCEMC DUAL ENROLLMENT: $10k → 12%FOUNDATION FOR LA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 14%DESTINY RESCUE FORT: $10k → 12%TAHOE RIM TRAIL: $10k → 8%Lake Tahoe College Promise: $55k → 8%Segerstrom Center For: $25k → 10%MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $18k → 10%TAHOE RIM TRAIL: $10k → 8%Thunderbird Tahoe Preservation Soci: $10k → 10%LAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $51k → 8%Segerstrom Center for the Arts: $25k → 10%MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%EPIC CHURCH SAN FRANCISCO: $30k → 10%LAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $50k → 8%Segerstrom Center for the Arts: $25k → 10%Mammoth Mountain Community Foundati: $10k → 10%EPIC CHURCH SAN FRANCISCO: $21k → 10%Lake Tahoe Community Communication: $50k → 8%SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $25k → 10%FRSTGVGMAMMOTH MOUNTAINCO: $10k → 10%LAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $50k → 8%SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $25k → 10%Mammoth Mountain Community Foundati: $10k → 10%Lake Tahoe College Promise: $20k → 8%Segerstrom Center for the Arts: $15k → 10%Mammoth Mountain Community Foundat: $10k → 10%Lake Tahoe College Promise: $20k → 8%Segerstrom Center for the Arts: $15k → 10%Cerro Coso Community College: $10k → 10%Lake Tahoe College Promise: $10k → 8%Segerstrom Center For The Arts: $15k → 10%Lake Tahoe College Promise: $10k → 8%SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $13k → 10%SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $13k → 10%SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $13k → 10%SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $13k → 10%Segerstrom Center For The Arts: $10k → 10%Segerstrom Center For the Arts: $10k → 10%Segerstrom Center for the Arts: $10k → 10%Unity Middle College: $10k → 10%ALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%Kathleen C Moore Private Foundation: $25k → 10%Orange County Community Foundation: $25k → 10%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.
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 40 repeat orgs$401k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
153

Total granted

$1.1M
$365k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-5%

Still filing today

13%
3%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsAnimalsYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SC
    Segerstrom Center for the Arts
    8× · 2018–2025 · $250k · revenue +34%
  • TA
    TAHOE ARTS PROJECT
    2× · 2024–2025 · $9k · revenue +6%
  • TR
    Tahoe Rim Trail Association
    2× · 2018–2019 · $8k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • WN
    WESTERN NEVADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -23%
  • KC
    Kathleen C Moore Private Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +138% · 33% of their budget
  • SC
    Segerstrom Center For
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
Sierra Stages

Enrich the culture of Nevada County by providing high quality, affordable, and accessible performances for everyone.

Arts & Culture
2
San Lorenzo Valley Mountain Community Theater
Arts & Culture
3
Sierra State Parks Foundation

The Sierra State Parks Foundation provides critically needed financial and professional support to the Lake Tahoe-Donner Sierra State Parks for Education, Restoration, and Cultural and Environmental Preservation in partnership with…

Recreation & Sports
4
Midsummer Mozart Festival

The only music festival in North America dedicated to Mozart, our mission embraces both performance of highest artistic excellence and cultivation of new potential audience, including young people to assure the future appreciation of great…

Arts & Culture
5
The Sea Ranch Thespians
Arts & Culture
6
Tahoe Maritime Foundation
Philanthropy
7
The Stanford Theatre Foundation
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8
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
9
Silicon Valley Shakespeare

Silicon valley shakespeare is innovating the classics through unique and relevant theatrical experiences that illuminate and inspire modern audiences.

Arts & Culture
10
Ross Mckee Foundation for the Musical Arts
—
11
Monterey County Symphony Assoc Inc

Entertain and engage our community through musical performance and education.

Arts & Culture
12
Marin Theatre Company

Marin theatre company is the bay area's premier mid-size theater and the leading professional theater in the north bay. mtc produces a six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in an…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Kathleen C Moore Private Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 217 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $150,680 · OtherLAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGELake Tahoe College Promise: $117,500 · OtherLake Tahoe College PromiseLake Tahoe Community Communication: $106,738 · OtherLake Tahoe Community CommunicationIndividual grant recipient: $88,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEPIC CHURCH SAN FRANCISCO: $50,885 · OtherWESTERN NEVADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION: $45,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $40,005 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · Other+182 more: $499,212 · Other+182 moreSegerstrom Center for the Arts: $250,000 · Arts & CultureSegerstrom Center …+2 more: $6,500 · Arts & CultureMammoth Mountain Community Foundation Inc: $81,755 · Youth DevelopmentSacramento Youth Center: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyKathleen C Moore Private Foundation: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTahoe Rim Trail Association: $8,000 · Recreation & SportsDOG IS MY COPILOT: $4,065 · Animals
Other$1,188,920Arts & Culture$256,500Youth Development$91,755Philanthropy$50,000Recreation & Sports$8,000Animals$4,065

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts: $250,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMammoth Mountain Community Foundation Inc: $81,755 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetWESTERN NEVADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKathleen C Moore Private Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetSacramento Youth Center: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTAHOE ARTS PROJECT: $9,185 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTahoe Rim Trail Association: $8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDOG IS MY COPILOT: $4,065 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPORTOLA VALLEY THEATRE CONSERVATORY INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $407 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 Segerstrom Center for the Arts ↗
  • Who funds Mammoth Mountain Community Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN NEVADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Kathleen C Moore Private Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Sacramento Youth Center ↗
  • Who funds TAHOE ARTS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Tahoe Rim Trail Association ↗

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Goal Foundation Giving Opportunities for Adv in Life funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Goal Foundation Giving Opportunities for Adv in Life. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Goal Foundation Giving Opportunities for Adv in Life?

    Find your warmest path to Goal Foundation Giving Opportunities for Adv in Life 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 217 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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