How much did GOLDEN FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of GOLDEN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

children'ssan diego

2019

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2020

san diego

2021

sun valley

2022

luke's woodwood riversun valley

2023

sun valley

2024

sun valleywood

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k9 grants · $26k
$10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$839k

Total assets

Largest grants

SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL$12,000
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BIGWOOD$10,000
WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST$5,000
SAWTOOTH BOTANICAL GARDEN$4,000
SUN VALLEY WRITERS CONFERENCE$4,000
BALLET SUN VALLEY$3,310
THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL$3,000
SWIFTSURE EQUESTRIAN CENTER$3,000
CHILDHELP$2,000
SUN VALLEY MUSEUM OF ART$1,000
KETCHUM SUN VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT$500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 10%. 35% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$618k · 19 repeat orgs$923k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$618k

$858k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+24%

Still filing today

58%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentEducationOther

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

SL
ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION
2× · 2022–2023 · $180k · revenue +9%
SD
SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA
3× · 2017–2019 · $55k · revenue +108%
AF
ANGEL FACES
3× · 2017–2020 · $35k · revenue +9%

Funded once

KF
KELLEY FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND
one grant, 2021 · $668k
TC
THE COMMUNITY LIBRARY
one grant, 2021 · $20k
SD
SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY
one grant, 2020 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Zoological Society of San Diego

An international, nonprofit conservation organization with two front doors: the san diego zoo and the san diego zoo safari park, we integrate wildlife health and care, science, and education to develop sustainable conservation solutions.

Animals

San Diego Opera Association

The mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community engagement and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as part of its…

Arts & Culture

San Diego Biomedical Research Institute

The SDBRI mission is to find new ways to predict and prevent cancer, diabetes, autoimmune disease, neurological disorders and HIV infection, and to accelerate medical advances that maintain health and improve quality of life.

Health

San Diego Society of Natural History

To interpret the natural world through research, education and exhibits; to promote understanding of the evolution and diversity of southern california and the peninsula of baja california; and to inspire in all a respect for nature and…

Arts & Culture

San Diego Ballet

Excite, entertain and enrich diverse audiences.

Unclassified

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Basic research in the following: molecular biology & genetics, neuroscience, and plant biology.

Science & Tech

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

The museum inspires a thirst for discovery and a passion for the natural world.

Arts & Culture

San Diego Automotive Museum

San Diego Automotive Museum's mission is to tell the story of the social and technological past, present and future of the automobile through its collections, exhibitions, and educational programs.

Arts & Culture

San Diegans for Health Care Coverage

Promote Access to Health Care For All San Diegans

Health

The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation improves the quality of life within all of our communities.

Philanthropy

Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy provided expertise, advocacy and resources to envision, enhance and sustain Balboa Park (the "Park") for all visitors in partnership with the City of San Diego and in collaboration with other organizations in the…

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The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo

|to conserve and care for wildlands, farms, and ranches, and connect people to the land.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elderhelp of San Diego and the most unlike its peers is San Diego Museum of Art. 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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/31

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,534

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.

05the grantee network

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/27

Grantees still filing

18/27

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,107,171Health$213,515Human Services$78,000Animals$57,865Civil Rights$30,000Religion$29,000Philanthropy$25,000

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.

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.

The San Diego FoundationCA24.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Heller Foundation of San Diego · Dr Seuss Foundation · Spur Community Foundation Inc · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Pesky Family Foundation Inc · Pratt Memorial Fund · David C Copley Foundation · Price Philanthropies 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 organisation GOLDEN FOUNDATION 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: POINT LOMA ASSOCIATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~12 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 952537997 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on POINT LOMA ASSOCIATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 12 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Golden Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Golden Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

GOLDEN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Golden Foundation?

More from the funding graph

GOLDEN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Golden Foundation?

More from the funding graph