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Golden Pines Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$515k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TAIWANESE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND$7,500
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
ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND$5,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$2,000
ASPCA$1,000
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.

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Its 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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against -7% for those 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

+36%
-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
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

  • TA
    TAIWANESE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    5× · 2021–2025 · $33k · revenue +26%
  • UR
    UNION RESCUE MISSION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +67%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK
    2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -89%
  • PH
    PROJECT H O P E INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • PA
    PROJECT ANGEL FOOD
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -7%
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
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.

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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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; 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 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. 15 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA …Pasadena Community Foundation: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPasadena Co…THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $2,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MAYOR'S…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICARE…FEED THE CHILDREN INC: $5,000 · InternationalFEED THE …UNION RESCUE MISSION: $7,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $1,000 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $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 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 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 budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPasadena Community Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Golden Pines Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Golden Pines Foundation. 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 →median 1%
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% 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, 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 20 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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