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Goldin Foundation for Excellence in Education

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$48k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of GOLDIN FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$453k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUR CHILDRENS TRUST$10,000
EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES$8,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
LEXINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS$7,500
ART CONSERVATORY FOR TEENS$7,500
MOSAIC INTERFAITH YOUTH$1,500
REACH$1,000
THINK GIVE$1,000
CHAITAIQUA ARTS PROGRAM$1,000
ONE WORLD EDUCATION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
WELLESLEY CENTER FOR WOMEN$900
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 (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%REACH INC: $5k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
AR
DC
TX

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.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$52k · 8 repeat orgs$199k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +103% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
33

Total granted

$52k
$153k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+103%
+38%

Still filing today

63%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • WC
    Wellesley College
    3× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +63%
  • TS
    THRIVE SCHOLARS
    2× · 2019–2021 · $9k · revenue +152%
  • CP
    CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +257%

Funded once

  • PI
    PARENTCHILD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +72%
  • CF
    CYPRESS FAIRBANKS ISD
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
  • Y
    YOUTHLINE
    one grant, 2023 · $8k

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
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

3
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

4
Partnership With Children Inc

Partnership with children's mission is to strengthen the emotional, social, and cognitive skills of children in new york city so they can succeed in school, society, and life.

5
School One

Creative, collaborative, and college preparatory, school one students write with purpose and participate actively. each student is well-known and valued for their emerging strengths. small by design for 50 years, classes average nine…

Education
6
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
7
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
8
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
9
Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts

Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.

Education
10
Reach Prep Inc

Provide transformative educational experiences that empower underserved students

Education
11
Write the World Inc

Write the world is a global online writing community that empowers teenagers to become stronger and more confident writers, critical thinkers, and engaged global citizens. by offering free access to daily writing prompts, monthly writing…

Education
12
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Facing History & Ourselves Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reach Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 50 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)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PARENTCHILD INC — $10,000 · OtherPARENTCHILD INCOUR CHILDRENS TRUST — $10,000 · OtherOUR CHILDRENS TRUSTCYPRESS FAIRBANKS ISD — $8,000 · OtherYOUTHLINE — $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $8,000 · OtherA LIFE WITH DRUMS — $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $8,000 · OtherEMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES — $8,000 · OtherLEXINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $7,500 · OtherRESOURCE CENTRAL RENEW OUR SCHOOLS — $7,500 · OtherART CONSERVATORY FOR TEENS — $7,500 · OtherENOUGHPLAYS TO END GUN VIOLENCE — $7,500 · OtherLEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $7,500 · OtherBABSON FINANCIAL LITERACY PROGRAM — $7,500 · OtherLEAGUE OF WOMENS VOTERS - PITTSBURG — $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $7,500 · OtherCENTER OR CITIZENSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITY — $7,500 · OtherKIDS4PEACE — $6,500 · OtherEARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $6,000 · Other+19 more — $31,800 · Other+19 moreWellesley College — $11,900 · EducationWellesley Colle…THRIVE SCHOLARS — $8,500 · EducationTHRIVE SCHOLARSONE WORLD EDUCATION — $7,500 · EducationONE WORLD EDUCA…OUR SISTERS SCHOOL — $6,000 · EducationOUR SISTERS SCH…CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC — $8,500 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND…PLAY ON PHILLY — $7,500 · Arts & CulturePLAY ON P…BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON AR…FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHINKGIVE INC — $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentMOSAIC INTERFAITH YOUTH ACTION INC — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentREACH EDUCATION INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesREACH INC — $1,000 · Health
Other$179,800Education$33,900Arts & Culture$22,000Youth Development$8,000Human Services$6,000Health$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 budgetWellesley College — $11,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE SCHOLARS — $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC — $8,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPLAY ON PHILLY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetONE WORLD EDUCATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHINKGIVE INC — $7,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREACH EDUCATION INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREACH INC — $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.

  • Who funds Wellesley College
  • Who funds PARENTCHILD INC
  • Who funds THRIVE SCHOLARS
  • Who funds CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC
  • Who funds PLAY ON PHILLY
  • Who funds ONE WORLD EDUCATION
  • Who funds THINKGIVE INC
  • Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL
  • Who funds REACH EDUCATION INC
  • Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES 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.

Network for GoodDC8.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Goldin Foundation for Excellence in Education 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Reach Inc85% of income from government
  • Wellesley College1% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc0% of income from government
  • Our Sisters School0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 50 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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