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Golden Family Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$36k
Granted FY2018
2
Grants FY2018
2
Organizations funded FY2018
0%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$17,757
Largest grant, FY2018
$17,757
Organizations funded a year
2 to 10
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 0% of the organizations Golden Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20182$36k0%
FY201710$7.3Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Arts & Culture$3.7MEnvironment$3.6MEducation$28kHuman Services$5kAnimals$1kRecreation & Sports$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Museum of Natural History$3,660,79321%
Black Rock Forest Consortium Inc$3,600,77320%
Barnard College$27,50010%
Open Space Institute Inc$9,80010%
Hebrew Free Loan Society Inc$5,00010%
Catskill Center for Conservation & Development Inc$5,00010%
New Yorkers for Parks$1,00010%
Hudson Highlands Nature Center$50010%
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Inc$22510%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($1k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Golden Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $3,660,793 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBlack Rock Forest Consortium Inc: $3,600,773 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBarnard College: $27,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Space Institute Inc: $9,800 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHebrew Free Loan Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCatskill Center for Conservation & Development Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNew Yorkers for Parks: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHudson Highlands Nature Center: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Inc: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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How do I get to Golden Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Golden Family Foundation 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.

About Golden Family Foundation

How much does Golden Family Foundation give?
Golden Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $35,514 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Golden Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (50%), Environment (49%), Education (0%).
Who are Golden Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: American Museum of Natural History ($3.7M), Black Rock Forest Consortium Inc ($3.6M), Barnard College ($28k).
Does Golden Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Golden Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Golden Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Golden Family Foundation based?
Golden Family Foundation is based in NJ.

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 10 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2019) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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