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Governors Cup Foundation Inc
The specific purpose of this corporation is to provide a forum for open discussion and the exchange of ideas on, and provide funding for research, education, and scholarship relateing to important public policy, scentific and hunanitarian issues.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH SAC FOOD CLOSET | $25,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| RANCHO CEILO | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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 +58% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- JGJORDANS GUARDIAN ANGELS5× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +58%
- MGMORTON GOLF FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2022 · $65k · revenue +81%
- SSSOUTH SACRAMENTO INTERFAITH PARTNERSHIP2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- WCWhy Cant We Make A Differenceone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -89%
- GSGROWER SHIPPER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
- MBMama Bearsone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
MARI acts as a resource organization emphasizing the importance of our collective history through community education, and ultimately help eliminate racism and injustice.
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
Mission graduates (the organization") is a california nonprofit benefit organization that empowers youth and their families on the path to higher education, equipping them for fulfilling careers that will strengthen generations. founded in…
Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.
Providing for educational scholarships and grants to individuals with the goal of assisting them to continually seek knowledge. additionally, to provide grants to individuals who have experienced a catastrophic event or an emergency…
Help for mothers
The mission of TYM4Change is to empower youth to achieve their full potential and become agents of change in their communities through learning, research, and action.
The junior league of san jose is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.
The Primary Mission is To Provide Need Based Scholarships To Individuals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michelles Place Cancer Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is Mama Bears. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 10 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 OAKLAND MILITARY INSTITUTE COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JORDANS GUARDIAN ANGELS ↗
- Who funds MORTON GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SACRAMENTO INTERFAITH PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds RANCHO CIELO INC ↗
- Who funds Why Cant We Make A Difference ↗
- Who funds MICHELLES PLACE CANCER RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE ↗
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.
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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 Governors Cup 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.
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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