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Good Family Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$82k
Granted FY2019
15
Grants FY2019
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172019.

Human Services$74kHousing & Shelter$56kHealth$40kYouth Development$37kCivil Rights$29kReligion$27kArts & Culture$9kEducation$500Other$0
02FY2019 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k13 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOODMAN ATWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
OUR HOUSE INC$10,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$8,000
BATON ROUGE YOUTH COALITION$7,000
ST ELIZABETH FOUNDATION$6,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF BATON ROUGE$6,000
BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES$5,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS$5,000
SALVATION ARMY$5,000
PORCHLIGHT INC$5,000
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION - WISCONSIN$5,000
UNION RESCUE MISSION$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
WILDWOOD PARK FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$3,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KPFA RADIO: $1k → 10%WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%NEWGATE MISSION: $2k → 16%ANNUNCIATION HOUSE: $25k → 21%SALVATION ARMY: $5k → 17%GOODMAN ATWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%BATON ROUGE YOUTH COALITION: $7k → 19%KPFA RADIO: $1k → 10%SALVATION ARMY: $5k → 17%GOODMAN ATWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%BATON ROUGE YOUTH COALITION: $5k → 19%KPFA RADIO: $1k → 10%SALVATION ARMY: $5k → 17%GOODMAN ATWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%BATON ROUGE YOUTH COALITION: $5k → 19%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BRANCHES INC(CHB): $2k → 10%WILDWOOD PARK FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $3k → 17%PORCHLIGHT INC: $5k → 10%CHARLES W LAMAR JR YMCA: $3k → 19%WILDWOOD PARK FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $3k → 17%PORCHLIGHT INC: $5k → 10%CHARLES W LAMAR JR YMCA: $3k → 19%WILDWOOD PARK FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $3k → 17%PORCHLIGHT INC: $5k → 10%ST ELIZABETH FOUNDATION: $6k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS: $5k → 17%BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 10%ST ELIZABETH FOUNDATION: $6k → 19%BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%ST ELIZABETH FOUNDATION: $6k → 19%JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION - WISCONSIN: $5k → 10%BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%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

IL
WI
NJ
CA
AR
LA
AL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$245k · 16 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
4

Total granted

$245k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+128%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
HealthCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

  • OH
    OUR HOUSE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $32k · revenue +128%
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $29k · revenue +10%
  • BY
    BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • AH
    ANNUNCIATION HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • NU
    NEWGATE UNITED METHODIST MISSION OF LONGVIEW INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • CH
    Childrens Hospital Branches Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -27%

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
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte (RMHC of GC) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. Charlotte is recognized as a leading destination…

Human Services
2
Baton Rouge Children's Advocacy Center

Baton rouge children's advocacy center serves abused children and their non-offending family members. services include forensic interviews, therapy services, and a family advocacy support program.

Youth Development
3
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Jacksonville Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of jacksonville is a 501(c3) organization that supports the health and well-being of children by providing lodging, meals, transportation and a community of compassionate care to critically ill children and…

Health
4
Broadway Housing Communities Inc

Broadway housing communities seeks to actively engage and support the community we serve through a unique supportive model blending stable affordable housing, access to the arts, and early childhood education programs. (see schedule…

Human Services
5
Brigid Collins House

Our mission is to strengthen community health and resilience by providing comprehensive support to children and their families. our vision is a thriving community where no child suffers.

Human Services
6
Bethany House Services Inc

Bethany House Services empowers homeless and at-risk families with the solutions to achieve housing stability and long-term self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
7
Ray of Hope Advocacy Center Inc

To facilitate a coordinated, community response to abuse and to provide hope and support to children and families impacted by abuse

Crime & Legal
8
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, Inc. sees a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. They provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and…

Health
9
Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership Inc

The baltimore regional housing partnership expands housing choices for low-income families who have historically been excluded from housing in well-resourced areas.

Housing & Shelter
10
Residential Opportunities Inc

We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.

Human Services
11
Marrakech Inc

Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…

Employment
12
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Arkansas & North Louisiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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 22 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OUR HOUSE INC — $32,000 · OtherOUR HOUSE INCGOODMAN ATWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER — $30,000 · OtherGOODMAN ATWOOD COMMUNITY CENTERANNUNCIATION HOUSE INC — $25,000 · OtherANNUNCIATION HOUSE INCSALVATION ARMY — $15,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATIONSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF BATON ROUGE — $10,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF BATON ROUGEIndividual grant recipient — $9,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHARLES W LAMAR JR YMCA — $6,000 · Other+2 more — $5,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $29,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LA…BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC — $20,000 · Crime & LegalBRIARPATCH YOUTH SE…SAINT ELIZABETH FOUNDATION — $18,000 · HealthSAINT ELIZA…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC — $5,000 · HealthRONALD MCDO…BREAKTHROUGH T1D — $5,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUG…Childrens Hospital Branches Inc — $2,000 · HealthChildrens H…PORCHLIGHT INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterPORCHLIGH…UNION RESCUE MISSION — $9,000 · Housing & ShelterUNION RES…Baton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc — $17,000 · Youth DevelopmentARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $12,500 · Human ServicesWildwood Park for the Performing Arts Inc — $9,000 · Arts & CultureWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $500 · Education
Other$142,000Crime & Legal$49,000Health$30,000Housing & Shelter$24,000Youth Development$17,000Human Services$12,500Arts & Culture$9,000Education$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOUR HOUSE INC — $32,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $29,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSAINT ELIZABETH FOUNDATION — $18,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBaton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc — $17,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPORCHLIGHT INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $12,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION — $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Hospital Branches Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $500 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.

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.

Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Good 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Good Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Good 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 22 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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