· Private foundation
Goulder Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
54% of Goulder Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Bank Of America Charitable Gift Fund, 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: 50 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k9 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $810k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $450k
- $250k+1 grant · $723k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT | $723,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE | $100,000 |
| BEAVER BROOK ASSOCIATION INC | $100,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION | $50,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| LAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| HARBOR HOMES INC | $50,000 |
| DESCHUTES BASIN LAND TRUST | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.
64 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2018, 28 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Friends of the Columbia Gorge6× · 2018–2024 · $445k · revenue +35%- SMSISKIYOU MOUNTAIN CLUB7× · 2018–2024 · $360k · revenue +165%
- GPGreat Plains Food Bank7× · 2018–2024 · $270k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- BOBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFTone grant, 2018 · $723k
MANNA FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +141%
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +30%
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.
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…
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…
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…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
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).
The amazon conservation team (act) partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture.
How this is measured
86 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 86 of the 103 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC ↗
- 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 SANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 Rogue Rescue & Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds OREGON JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 HISTORIC MITCHELVILLE FREEDOM PARK INC ↗
- Who funds Harbor Homes Inc ↗
- Who funds LOVABLE PAWS RESCUE ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Goulder Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Goulder Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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