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Golden Pines Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$33kHousing & Shelter$22kFood & Nutrition$19kPhilanthropy$15kAnimals$12kHuman Services$10kHealth$5kInternational$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$515k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TAIWANESE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND$7,500
ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND$5,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$5,000
PASADENA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
AMERICARES$5,000
PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$5,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$2,000
ASPCA$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$89k · 9 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$89k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
-7%

Still filing today

56%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsInternationalHealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TA
    TAIWANESE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    5× · 2021–2025 · $33k · revenue +26%
  • UR
    UNION RESCUE MISSION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +67%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    5× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • PH
    PROJECT H O P E INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • TM
    THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -89%
  • TS
    The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +38%

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.

1
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
2
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

3
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
4
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
5
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
6
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
7
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

8
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
9
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
10
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
11
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
12
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Taiwanese American Scholarship Fund. 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $13,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYTHE SALVATION ARMY — $8,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $7,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKLOS ANGELES FOOD BANK — $6,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES FOOD BANKASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $5,000 · OtherASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN …AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY — $4,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYPROJECT H O P E INC — $2,000 · OtherTAIWANESE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $32,500 · EducationTAIWANESE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP…THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $6,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICA…PASADENA HUMANE — $5,000 · AnimalsPASADENA HU…Humane World for Animals Inc — $1,000 · AnimalsHumane Worl…Pasadena Community Foundation — $5,000 · PhilanthropyPasadena Co…CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA …THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES — $2,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MAYOR'S…FEED THE CHILDREN INC — $5,000 · InternationalFEED THE …AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · InternationalAMERICARE…UNION RESCUE MISSION — $7,000 · Human ServicesThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $1,000 · HealthPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $1,000 · HealthNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $1,000 · Environment
Other$45,000Education$32,500Animals$12,000Philanthropy$12,000International$10,000Human Services$7,000Health$2,000Environment$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTAIWANESE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $32,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPasadena Community Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Golden Pines 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Feed the Children Inc1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report 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, FY2025

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 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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