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Gould Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2021
18
Grants FY2021
4
States reached
$450k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Gould Family Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to The New York Community Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Gould Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

17
’20
14
’21
0
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Philanthropy$34MInternational$690kEnvironment$675kArts & Culture$635kEducation$540kScience & Tech$85kAnimals$62kHealth$50kOther$0
02FY2021 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $925k
  • $250k+1 grant · $450k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HALO TRUST (USA)INC$450,000
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$200,000
EARTHJUSTICE$150,000
THE WATER FOUNDATION$150,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$100,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA$100,000
LIBRARY OF AMERICA$75,000
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH$50,000
NORTHEAST HIGH PERFORMANCE ROWING F$50,000
DALTON SCHOOL$50,000
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION$25,000
SHEPAUG RIVER ASSOCIATION$25,000
FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS$25,000
WARREN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$10,000
WARREN PUBLIC LIBRARY$10,000
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 (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HONOR THE EARTH: $20k → 10%EARTHJUSTICE: $150k → 10%ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%THE WATER FOUNDATION: $150k → 12%ICAN FUND: $15k → 17%FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $100k → 14%CANCER RESEARCH NETWORK: $50k → 11%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $200k → 7%NORTHEAST HIGH PERFORMANCE ROWING F: $50k → 9%CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES: $25k → 9%EARTHJUSTICE: $150k → 10%ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $34.4M → 17%FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $50k → 14%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $200k → 7%WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%DANBURY ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $10k → 9%MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS: $50k → 10%LIBRARY OF AMERICA: $110k → 17%FUTURE BRILLANCE: $50k → 14%ASAP: $5k → 9%DANBURY ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $10k → 9%IGNITE: $20k → 10%LIBRARY OF AMERICA: $75k → 17%HALO TRUST (USA)INC: $450k → 14%WASHINGTON VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE: $3k → 9%STRAYS & OTHERS: $10k → 9%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $100k → 17%HALO TRUST (USA)INC: $200k → 14%SHEPAUG RIVER ASSOCIATION: $25k → 9%STRAYS & OTHERS: $5k → 9%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $100k → 17%ORG 350: $25k → 14%WARREN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10k → 9%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $100k → 17%FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: $25k → 14%WARREN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10k → 9%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $100k → 17%FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: $10k → 14%ECAD: $10k → 9%DALTON SCHOOL: $50k → 17%WARREN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10k → 9%DALTON SCHOOL: $50k → 17%ECAD: $10k → 9%WILD BIRD FUND: $5k → 17%WARREN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10k → 9%ANIMAL WELFARE OF NEW MILFORD: $2k → 9%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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 15 repeat orgs$545k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
13

Total granted

$2.4M
$320k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+5%

Still filing today

80%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
EducationEnvironmentInternationalAnimalsArts & 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

  • TH
    THE HALO TRUST (USA) INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $650k · revenue +190%
  • WU
    WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $400k · revenue +36%
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $300k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +26%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
8
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
9
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
10
Public Library of Science

Please see schedule o for complete description of the organization's mission.

Science & Tech
11
Wetlands America Trust Inc

Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…

Environment
12
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

19 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. 19 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $34,448,071 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUSTTHE HALO TRUST (USA) INC: $650,000 · InternationalFEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: $35,000 · International+1 more: $15,000 · InternationalMETROPOLITAN OPERA: $200,000 · OtherNORTHEAST HIGH PERFORMANCE ROWING F: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS: $50,000 · OtherElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherWASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherSHEPAUG RIVER ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES: $25,000 · OtherORG 350: $25,000 · Other+5 more: $49,500 · OtherEARTHJUSTICE: $300,000 · EnvironmentWATER FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $150,000 · Environment+1 more: $20,000 · EnvironmentWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $400,000 · EducationDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $100,000 · EducationWARREN PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $20,000 · EducationIGNITE: $20,000 · EducationMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LITERARY CLASSICS OF THE US INC D/B/A LIBRARY OF AMERICA: $185,000 · Arts & CultureDANBURY ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $20,000 · AnimalsSTRAYS & OTHERS INC: $15,000 · AnimalsWILD BIRD FUND INC: $5,000 · Animals
Philanthropy$34,448,071International$700,000Other$624,500Environment$620,000Education$540,000Arts & Culture$385,000Animals$40,000

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 budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $34,448,071 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE HALO TRUST (USA) INC: $650,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $400,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITERARY CLASSICS OF THE US INC D/B/A LIBRARY OF AMERICA: $185,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetWATER FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $150,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWARREN PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetDANBURY ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetIGNITE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHONOR THE EARTH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSTRAYS & OTHERS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetWILD BIRD FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA13.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Gould Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gould Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Warren Public Library Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 32 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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