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Golden Rule 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $89k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Studio Two Three | $18,000 |
| Northeast Historic Film | $15,000 |
| Arcadia University | $15,000 |
| Hooves for Harmony Inc | $11,000 |
| The Visual Arts Center of Richmond | $10,000 |
| Friends of Urban Inc | $10,000 |
| US PIRG Education Fund | $10,000 |
| Fire Museum Presents | $9,000 |
| Belfast Area Child Care Services | $8,000 |
| ISSUE Project Room | $7,000 |
| Roulette Intermedium | $5,000 |
| Possibility Labs fiscal sponsor Raw | $5,000 |
| Art Omi | $5,000 |
| Survival International USA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Golden Rule Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in ME; read by stated purpose it is 52% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NHNORTHEAST HISTORIC FILM3× · 2022–2025 · $52k · revenue +78%
- TVTHE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND3× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +117%
- BABelfast Area Child Care Services Inc3× · 2022–2025 · $24k · revenue +28%
Funded once
GALLERY AFERROone grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue +142%- PCPhiladelphia City Rowing Incone grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +2%
- TCThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progressgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue +27%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
Abc no rio is an arts organization located in manhattans lower east side. it seeks to provide opportunities for artists and the community at large to share resources and ideas in an atmosphere of camaraderie and mutual support. since the…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
ARTNOIR is a global collective and a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color from around the world while catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Poster House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 36 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds NORTHEAST HISTORIC FILM ↗
- Who funds STUDIO TWO THREE ↗
- Who funds THE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF URBAN INC ↗
- Who funds Hooves for Harmony Inc ↗
- Who funds Belfast Area Child Care Services Inc ↗
- Who funds ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC ↗
- Who funds GALLERY AFERRO ↗
- Who funds Philadelphia City Rowing Inc ↗
- Who funds ART OMI INC ↗
- Who funds ARCADIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL (USA) ↗
- Who funds ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC ↗
- Who funds Fire Museum Presents ↗
- Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress ↗
- Who funds Inliquidcom Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds TIGER STRIKES ASTEROID INC ↗
- Who funds FIBER COLLEGE OF MAINE ↗
- Who funds ASHOKAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD WAVE VOLUNTEERS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHARING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SWEET TREE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MILLINOCKET MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters ↗
- Who funds POSTER HOUSE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Mediathe Foundation Inc · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 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.
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.
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