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Goulder Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2018
55
Grants FY2018
17
States reached
$723k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

54% of Goulder Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Bank Of America Charitable Gift Fd, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 47 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Goulder Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 49 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

49
’18
39
’19
36
’20
38
’21
45
’22
43
’23
47
’24

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

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Philanthropy$8.8MEnvironment$1.6MHealth$1.2MFood & Nutrition$769kEducation$639kArts & Culture$626kRecreation & Sports$610kAnimals$569kOther$0
02FY2018 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k9 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $810k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $450k
  • $250k+1 grant · $723k
$20,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT$723,000
BEAVER BROOK ASSOCIATION INC$100,000
FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE$100,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$50,000
HARBOR HOMES INC$50,000
DESCHUTES BASIN LAND TRUST$50,000
LAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION$50,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC$45,000
WNET$45,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$40,000
GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY$40,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$38,500
GREAT PLAINS FOOD BANK$35,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEROES ON THE WATER: $15k → 5%SECOND HELPINGS: $20k → 10%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $15k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $15k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $15k → 7%GROWING GARDENS: $5k → 12%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

NH
ND
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.8M · 65 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

65 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2018, 29 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, 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

65
35

Total granted

$6.8M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+41%

Still filing today

89%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHealthArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsEducationOther

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

  • Friends of the Columbia Gorge
    6× · 2018–2024 · $445k · revenue +35%
  • SM
    SISKIYOU MOUNTAIN CLUB
    7× · 2018–2024 · $360k · revenue +165%
  • GP
    Great Plains Food Bank
    7× · 2018–2024 · $270k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • BO
    BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT
    one grant, 2018 · $723k
  • MANNA FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +141%
  • THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +30%

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
Rainforest Trust

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

International
2
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
3
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
4
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
5
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
6
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
7
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
8
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
9
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
10
Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc

The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).

Environment
11
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
12
Western Rivers Conservancy

Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Portland Medical Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Grace Farm Animal Rescue and Sanctu. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterLocal History MuseumsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Public Library OperationsCommunity FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Elementary Literacy TutoringOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Pregnancy Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacySenior Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesEnvironmental Conservation …Community Arts CentersCancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%62%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/88
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,477

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.

04the grantee network

86 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. 86 of the 104 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/86
Grantees still filing
72/86
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD — $7,830,051 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD+5 more — $350,000 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT — $723,000 · OtherBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE …Friends of the Columbia Gorge — $445,000 · OtherFriends of the Columbia Gor…OREGON FOOD BANK — $210,000 · OtherOREGON FOOD BANKTHE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY (DUMMER ACADEMY) — $190,000 · OtherGreat Plains Food Bank — $270,000 · OtherGreat Plains Food BankUNION MISSION INC — $245,000 · OtherUNION MISSION INCMaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc — $183,500 · Other+44 more — $1,627,500 · Other+44 moreSISKIYOU MOUNTAIN CLUB — $360,000 · EnvironmentSISKIYOU M…LEACH GARDEN FRIENDS — $195,000 · EnvironmentLEACH GARD…THE WETLANDS INITIATIVE — $168,000 · EnvironmentTHE WETLAN…Deschutes Land Trust — $165,000 · EnvironmentDeschutes …WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $148,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILD…BEAVER BROOK ASSOCIATION INC — $136,400 · EnvironmentBEAVER BRO…HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC — $115,000 · EnvironmentHILTON HEA…TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON — $55,000 · Environment+4 more — $96,000 · Environment+4 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $203,000 · HealthLungstrong Inc — $130,000 · HealthLAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 · HealthPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $120,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $50,000 · HealthSANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $50,000 · HealthHome Health and Hospice Care — $50,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $40,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $38,500 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $30,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $30,000 · Health+1 more — $20,000 · HealthWNET — $173,000 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA — $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $145,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $80,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC MITCHELVILLE FREEDOM PARK INC — $75,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND CENTER STAGE — $55,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $43,250 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $29,250 · Arts & CultureMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $220,000 · InternationalOPERATION SMILE INC — $98,000 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $93,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $60,000 · InternationalHURU INTERNATIONAL INC — $35,000 · International+2 more — $25,000 · InternationalTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $135,000 · AnimalsHILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $96,000 · AnimalsRogue Rescue & Sanctuary — $90,000 · AnimalsLOVABLE PAWS RESCUE — $70,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY FOR GREATER NASHUA CORP — $40,000 · AnimalsGRACE FARM ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTU — $40,000 · Animals
Philanthropy$8,180,051Other$3,894,000Environment$1,438,400Health$891,500Arts & Culture$750,500International$531,000Animals$471,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD — $7,830,051 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Columbia Gorge — $445,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetSISKIYOU MOUNTAIN CLUB — $360,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetGreat Plains Food Bank — $270,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNION MISSION INC — $245,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $220,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $210,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $203,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLEACH GARDEN FRIENDS — $195,000 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetMaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc — $183,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetWNET — $173,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WETLANDS INITIATIVE — $168,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetDeschutes Land Trust — $165,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA — $150,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $148,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $145,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetBEAVER BROOK ASSOCIATION INC — $136,400 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $135,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLungstrong Inc — $130,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetLAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY — $120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY — $120,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC — $115,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry — $115,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $98,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $96,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $93,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRogue Rescue & Sanctuary — $90,000 over 5y, 76% of budgetTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC — $85,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SPORTS COUNCIL — $80,000 over 4y, 78% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHarbor Homes Inc — $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHISTORIC MITCHELVILLE FREEDOM PARK INC — $75,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetREADING RESULTS — $70,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetLOVABLE PAWS RESCUE — $70,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS — $65,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetBRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY INC — $60,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON — $55,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND RECREATION — $55,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPORTLAND CENTER STAGE — $55,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $50,000 over 2y, 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 BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
  • Who funds Friends of the Columbia Gorge ↗
  • Who funds SISKIYOU MOUNTAIN CLUB ↗
  • Who funds Great Plains Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds UNION MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds LEACH GARDEN FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds WNET ↗
  • Who funds THE WETLANDS INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Deschutes Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEAVER BROOK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Lungstrong Inc ↗
  • Who funds LAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds SANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
  • Who funds HILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds OREGON JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Rogue Rescue & Sanctuary ↗
  • Who funds THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SPORTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
  • Who funds Harbor Homes Inc ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC MITCHELVILLE FREEDOM PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds READING RESULTS ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Oregon Community …Heritage Classic Foun…Meyer Memorial TrustThe Bargain BoxThe Collins FoundationRose E Tucker Charita…The Jackson FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…Coastal Community Fou…The Autzen FoundationWexford Foundation
Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC31.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · The Oregon Community Foundation · Heritage Classic Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Bargain Box · The Collins Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Autzen Foundation · Wexford 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 Goulder 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Deschutes Land Trust — 46% of income from government
  • Siskiyou Mountain Club — 22% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
  • Trailkeepers of Oregon — 19% of income from government
  • Kairospdx — 19% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Growing Gardens — 6% of income from government
  • Providence Portland Medical Foundation — 5% of income from government
  • Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy — 1% of income from government
  • Portland Center Stage — 1% of income from government
  • Santiam Memorial Hospital — 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Goulder Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Goulder 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 104 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines