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Golden Rule Family 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.

$120k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Health$103kEducation$86kPhilanthropy$60kCrime & Legal$50kHuman Services$40kHousing & Shelter$35kArts & Culture$20k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEO PHILANTHROPY$50,000
CONNECTING POINT OF PARK CITIES$30,000
DIGNITYMOVES$20,000
MONARCH JUSTICE CENTER$20,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MONARCH JUSTICE CENTER: $20k → 9%SHIELDS FOR KIDS: $5k → 16%CONNECTING POINT OF PARK CITIES: $30k → 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 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
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
2
Joseph J Peters Institute

JJPI is a specialized organization that provides prevention and treatment services in the areas of sexual and interpersonal violence, post-traumatic stress disorder and other forms of trauma, infant and early childhood mental health, and…

Crime & Legal
3
Opportunity Partners

Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…

Employment
4
Mary's Pregnancy Resource Center

Our mission is to save lives and reach souls in South Florida by serving the women of these communities through free and confidential services such as: Women's Wellness, Pregnancy Test, Pregnancy Counseling, Pregnancy Education, Referrals,…

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5
Vip Community Mental Health Center Inc

Intervening to protect and treat all victims of violence

Health
6
Meta House Inc

Meta house ends the generational cycle of addiction by healing women and strengthening families.

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7
The Pinnacle Rtc

The pinnacle is a residential treatment center for women and girls that provides mental health services which includes many different therapies.

Human Services
8
St Vincent Depaul Rehabilitation Service of Texas Inc

Setting a new standard of employment for people who have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.

Employment
9
Door to Hope

We open the door to hope and offer a path to recovery for those who are addicted and make the difference of a lifetime for children who have been exposed to alcohol and other drugs in the womb. we empower, support, and nurture all who walk…

Health
10
Family Services Inc

Family services, inc., a subsidiary of sheppard pratt, a not-for-profit behavioral health system, is dedicated to improving the quality of life of individuals and families by compassionately serving their mental health, addiction, special…

Human Services
11
Abilitypath Housing

Abilitypath housing advances affordable, accessible housing projects that promote independence and inclusive communities for adults with developmental disabilities. through partnerships and innovative program designs, abilitypath housing…

Human Services
12
Domestic Violence Project Inc

Domestic violence project, inc. promotes awareness and provides emergency and support services to all those impacted by domestic violence.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monarch Justice Center and the most unlike its peers is Connecting Point of Park Cities. 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

16 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE REFUGE FOR DMST — $30,000 · OtherTHE REFUGE FOR DMSTFAMILY REENTRY INC — $20,000 · OtherFAMILY REENTRY INCDYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA - THE READING CENTER — $20,000 · OtherDYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA - THE READING CENT…STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $20,000 · OtherSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INCSPIRIT REINS INC — $20,000 · OtherSPIRIT REINS INCSOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY - DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW — $20,000 · OtherSOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY - DEDMAN SCHOOL OF L…HISPANIC WOMEN'S NETWORK OF TEXAS — $15,000 · OtherHISPANIC WOMEN'S NETWORK OF TEXASHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $15,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYFOUNDATION FOR LEARNING & YOUTH TRAVEL EDUCATION — $11,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR LEARNING & YOUTH TRAVEL EDUCATION+1 more — $4,600 · OtherCONNECTING POINT OF PARK CITIES — $30,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTING POIN…MONARCH JUSTICE CENTER — $20,000 · Human ServicesMONARCH JUSTICE…Shields for Kids Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesShields for Kid…NEO Philanthropy Inc — $50,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthro…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $27,500 · HealthPLANNED PA…ROAD 2 RECOVERY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthROAD 2 REC…THE EMILY PROGRAM FOUNDATION — $15,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $10,000 · PhilanthropyOPERA SANTA BARBARA — $20,000 · Arts & CultureDIGNITYMOVES — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterCONFERENCE ON CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN INC — $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$175,600Human Services$55,000Public Benefit$50,000Health$37,500Philanthropy$25,000Arts & Culture$20,000Housing & Shelter$20,000Crime & Legal$10,000

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 budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTING POINT OF PARK CITIES — $30,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE REFUGE FOR DMST — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $27,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERA SANTA BARBARA — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY REENTRY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDIGNITYMOVES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONARCH JUSTICE CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSPIRIT REINS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetROAD 2 RECOVERY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCONFERENCE ON CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShields for Kids Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BIRTHDAY PARTY PROJECT — $4,600 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

Communities Foundatio…National Philanthropi…Network for GoodAmerican Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organization Golden Rule Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Golden Rule Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Golden Rule 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.

    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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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