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Gordon Goldstein Foundation at a glance

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Gordon Goldstein Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$44k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$65kReligion$57kArts & Culture$45kPublic Benefit$35kPhilanthropy$13kYouth Development$9kInternational$5kScience & Tech$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$434k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Teach Democracy$15,000
Sacramento Historical Society$15,000
Congregation Bnai Israel$7,200
Friends of Sacramento Arts$5,000
American Foundation for Suicide Pre$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
CA State Library Foundation$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROJECT SAVE: $4k → 8%Arts Culture El Dorado: $1k → 8%Jack Parham Memorial Scholarship: $5k → 10%EdSource: $5k → 10%SCOE Scholarship Fund: $10k → 12%UC DAVIS: $3k → 16%Holmdel Fdn for Education Excellenc: $3k → 6%SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $3k → 10%PROJECT SAVE: $3k → 8%EdSource: $5k → 10%SCOE Scholarship Fund: $10k → 12%Teach Democracy: $20k → 14%SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $2k → 10%Project SAVE: $3k → 8%SCOE Scholarship Fund: $5k → 12%Teach Democracy: $15k → 14%Project SAVE: $1k → 8%SCOE Scholarship Fund: $3k → 12%Sac County Bar Assn College Scholar: $3k → 12%Pro Youth Families: $3k → 12%Sacramento New Tech High School: $2k → 12%Museum of Science Curiosity: $5k → 12%Sacramento Historical Society: $15k → 12%Congregation Bnai Israel: $7k → 12%Congregation Bnai Israel: $7k → 12%CONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL: $6k → 12%CONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL: $6k → 12%CONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL: $3k → 12%Congregation Bnai Israel: $3k → 12%CONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL: $3k → 12%CONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL: $3k → 12%CONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL: $3k → 12%CONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL: $3k → 12%CONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL: $3k → 12%Congregation Bnai Israel: $3k → 12%CONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL: $3k → 12%CONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL: $3k → 12%Jewish Federation of Sacramento: $3k → 12%Jewish Federation of Sacramento: $3k → 12%Jewish Federation of Sacramento: $3k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SACRAMENTO: $3k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SACRAMENTO: $3k → 12%Friends of Sacramento Arts: $10k → 12%Friends of Sacramento Arts: $5k → 12%Friends of Sacramento Arts: $5k → 12%Friends of Sacramento Arts: $5k → 12%Friends of Sacramento Arts: $3k → 12%Northern CA Construction Training: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$203k · 18 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
20

Total granted

$203k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+13%

Still filing today

33%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyInternationalArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TD
    Teach Democracy
    2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue +38%
  • EI
    EDSOURCE INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +18%
  • SN
    SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS
    3× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • EG
    Elk Grove Community Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • MO
    Museum of Science Curiosity
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • FN
    Feeding Nations Through Educationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +328%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Californians for Energy and Science

To provide californians with accurate, science-based information about energy and climate issues, enabling informed decision-making for our state's energy future. we believe that through education and transparent research, we can help…

Education
2
San Gabriel Educational Foundation

Support programs at schools in SGVUSD

Education
3
Pta California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc

Support elementary school education

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4
The California Endowment
Philanthropy
5
Teach a Kid Foundation
Education
6
Bridge California

Education

Education
7
Foundation to Support Education Worldwide
Philanthropy
8
Cabrillo Education Foundation

Cef is serving as a student success innovation fund to promote new, creative and powerful initiatives to improve students' education in our community. it is an advocate for and funds high leverage programs that have well defined outcomes…

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9
Cal Med Foundation
Education
10
Cal Bears in the Desert

Engage alumni to advance support of UC Berkeley.

Education
11
California Federation of Teachers Disaster Relief Fund
Membership Benefit
12
Foundation for Child Development
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edsource Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL: $55,700 · OtherCONGREGATION BNAI ISRAELTeach Democracy: $35,000 · OtherTeach DemocracyFriends of Sacramento Arts: $27,500 · OtherFriends of Sacramento ArtsSCOE Scholarship Fund: $27,500 · OtherSCOE Scholarship FundSacramento Historical Society: $15,000 · OtherSacramento Historical SocietyJewish Federation of Sacramento: $13,250 · OtherJewish Federation of SacramentoPROJECT SAVE: $10,100 · Other+24 more: $40,975 · Other+24 moreEDSOURCE INC: $10,000 · EducationHOLMDEL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $2,500 · EducationElk Grove Community Foundation: $10,000 · PhilanthropySIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentFeeding Nations Through Education: $5,000 · InternationalAFRICAN HOPE FUND INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentSACRAMENTO HISTORY ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 · HealthTHE CHASE FOUNDATION: $500 · Health
Other$225,025Education$12,500Philanthropy$10,000Youth Development$5,500International$5,000Environment$1,000Arts & Culture$1,000Health$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTeach Democracy: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of Sacramento Arts: $27,500 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetEDSOURCE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetElk Grove Community Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding Nations Through Education: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHOLMDEL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN HOPE FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSACRAMENTO HISTORY ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHASE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Teach Democracy ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Sacramento Arts ↗
  • Who funds EDSOURCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Elk Grove Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS ↗
  • Who funds Feeding Nations Through Education ↗
  • Who funds HOLMDEL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN HOPE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SACRAMENTO HISTORY ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHASE FOUNDATION ↗

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gordon Goldstein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gordon Goldstein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Gordon Goldstein Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Gordon Goldstein 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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