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Golden Peacock Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$395k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Health$305kReligion$72kEducation$60kCivil Rights$50kPublic Benefit$30kArts & Culture$7kRecreation & Sports$2k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $320k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$610k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAFE HANDS FOR GIRLS$120,000
THE OPEN INSULIN FOUNDATION$100,000
PUBLIC RIGHTS PROJECT$50,000
CIRCLE OF INSPIRATION$50,000
BALSA POLICY INSTITUTE$30,000
TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$20,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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 (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%POWDERHOUSE STUDIOS: $50k → 8%JANET OLIVER: $4k → 9%THE CRUCIBLE: $7k → 10%PSYCHCRISIS: $4k → 10%360 PLUS ORG: $2k → 18%BALSA POLICY INSTITUTE: $30k → 17%TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20k → 16%ROSE CITY GAME ORGANIZATION: $2k → 8%SAFE HANDS FOR GIRLS: $120k → 13%BRIAN GIBBONS O'DEA: $4k → 9%THE OPEN INSULIN FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%PUBLIC RIGHTS PROJECT: $50k → 10%DAVID B HASSALL: $4k → 10%DONNA DAVIS: $4k → 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.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$128k · 5 repeat orgs$398k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$128k
$73k

Still filing today

0%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthScience & TechCivil RightsPublic BenefitInternationalEducationOther
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

  • CO
    CIRCLE OF INSPIRATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $72k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2022–2024 · $14k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2022–2024 · $14k

Funded once

  • PS
    POWDERHOUSE STUDIOS LIMITED
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • KH
    KENYA HELPgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +48%
  • TC
    THE CRUCIBLEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +34%
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
Technology Policy Institute
International
2
Bitcoin Policy Institute

Bitcoin policy institute (bpi) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that conducts research on bitcoin and emerging technologies, provides charitable legal support to defend bitcoin users and developers' rights, and educates the…

Public Benefit
3
Blueprint Biosecurity

Blueprint biosecurity is a nonprofit that conducts and supports research to identify, evaluate, and promote technical countermeasures against emerging airborne pathogen threats, helping to prevent future pandemics by strengthening…

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Institute for Progress

The institute for progress (ifp) is a non-partisan think tank focused on innovation policy. our organization works to accelerate and shape the direction of scientific, technological and industrial progress.

Social Science
5
Redwood Research Group Inc

Ai research - redwood research conducted research on ai interpretability and adversarial training techniques. as part of the research, we published blog posts and laid the foundation for research projects.

Science & Tech
6
The Berkeley Policy Institute Inc
Social Science
7
Center for Public Policy Studies

Research on public policy issures

Social Science
8
Plextech

Software Consulting and Education for Students at UC Berkeley.

Science & Tech
9
What Works Association Inc

Advance use of health policies and progr

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10
Ipti Research Org for Tech and Inno Technology and Innovation Inc
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11
Lawfare Institute

The lawfare institute is an independent and nonpartisan organization dedicated to the hard choices in national security, law, and policy. we produce academic-quality analysis with magazine-level readability at the pace of news to enable…

Public Benefit
12
Ibis Reproductive Health Inc

Ibis reproductive health drives change through bold, rigorous research and principled partnerships that advance sexual and reproductive autonomy, choices and health worldwide.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Public Rights Project; the most unlike its peers is Kenya Help. 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

9 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. 9 of the 17 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CIRCLE OF INSPIRATION: $71,830 · OtherCIRCLE OF INSPIRATIONPOWDERHOUSE STUDIOS LIMITED: $50,000 · OtherPOWDERHOUSE STUDIOS LIMITEDIndividual grant recipient: $14,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $14,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $14,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $14,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+4 more: $13,000 · Other+4 moreSAFE HANDS FOR GIRLS INC: $120,000 · HealthSAFE HANDS FOR GIRLS INCTexas Children's Hospital: $20,000 · HealthTexas Children's HospitalOpen Insulin Foundation: $100,000 · Science & TechOpen Insulin Foundati…PUBLIC RIGHTS PROJECT: $50,000 · Civil RightsPUBLIC RIG…BALSA POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 · Public BenefitKENYA HELP: $8,000 · InternationalTHE CRUCIBLE: $6,500 · Education
Other$190,830Health$140,000Science & Tech$100,000Civil Rights$50,000Public Benefit$30,000International$8,000Education$6,500

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 budgetSAFE HANDS FOR GIRLS INC: $120,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetOpen Insulin Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 73% of budgetPUBLIC RIGHTS PROJECT: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBALSA POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENYA HELP: $8,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetTHE CRUCIBLE: $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPSYCH CRISIS: $4,000 over 1y, 4.3% 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 SAFE HANDS FOR GIRLS INC ↗
  • Who funds Open Insulin Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC RIGHTS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds POWDERHOUSE STUDIOS LIMITED ↗
  • Who funds BALSA POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds KENYA HELP ↗
  • Who funds THE CRUCIBLE ↗
  • Who funds PSYCH CRISIS ↗

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Golden Peacock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Golden Peacock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    1report 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.

    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 17 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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