· Private foundation
Gould Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| World Central Kitchen | $10,444 |
| Salvation Army | $10,406 |
| California Fire Foundation | $10,298 |
| La Jolla Playhouse | $4,000 |
| Doctors without Borders | $3,800 |
| Monument Crisis Center | $3,000 |
| Street Level Health Project | $3,000 |
| Multicultural Institute | $3,000 |
| Humble Design | $2,061 |
| International Rescue Committee | $2,000 |
| East Bay Center for the Performing Arts | $2,000 |
| Downtown Womens Center | $1,872 |
| Altadena Girls | $1,850 |
| New York Public Library NYPL | $1,800 |
| Headstrong Project | $1,800 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TFTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC2× · 2017–2018 · $17k · revenue +162%
- 8I826DC INC2× · 2018–2019 · $15k · revenue +68%
- CECONSERVATION ENDOWMENT FUND2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- BFBamyan Foundationone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -66%
- ARA Reason To Survivegraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +48%
- CTCamp TLCone grant, 2017 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
La Casa de las Madres' mission is to respond to calls for help from DV victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to prevent future violence by educating the…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.
We are Marin's champion in the movement to end domestic violence - working at the intersection of survivors, systems, and community.
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The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
Institute of Public Strategies (IPS) is a nonprofit corporation that receives its funding from local and federal governmental agencies and private foundations, through long-term grants or contracts to provide community-level services…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monument Crisis Center and the most unlike its peers is Conservation Endowment Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
65 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 116 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Bamyan Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds 826DC INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Project Access Inc ↗
- Who funds A Reason To Survive ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Doors of Change ↗
- Who funds THE AJA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Montessori School of Ojai ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds PORT ANGELES SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival ↗
- Who funds Beauty 2 The Streetz ↗
- Who funds ALBANY MUSIC FUND ↗
- Who funds East Bay Center for the Performing Arts ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds OJAI FESTIVALS LTD ↗
- Who funds MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds DON DIEGO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The California Endowment · The Parker Foundation · Alameda County Community Food Bank · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · East Bay Community 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 Gould Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Imagination Stage Inc — 13% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.
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