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Goldenrod Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$915k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
6
Organizations funded FY2023
83%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$208,333
Largest grant, FY2023
$223,333
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 83% of the organizations Goldenrod Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20236$915k83%
FY20171$150n/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Environment$915k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wildlands Trust Inc$223,48326%
Manomet Inc$208,33314%
Living Observatory Inc$208,3331n/a
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc$108,33310%
Southeastern Massachusetts Pine Barrens Alliance Inc$58,333137%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($108k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Goldenrod Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Goldenrod Foundation Inc 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.

About Goldenrod Foundation Inc

How much does Goldenrod Foundation Inc give?
Goldenrod Foundation Inc reported 6 grants totaling $914,998 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Goldenrod Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Environment (100%).
Who are Goldenrod Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Wildlands Trust Inc ($223k), Manomet Inc ($208k), Living Observatory Inc ($208k).
Does Goldenrod Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Goldenrod Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Goldenrod Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Goldenrod Foundation Inc based?
Goldenrod Foundation Inc is based in MA.

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 6 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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