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Great Golden Opportunity Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$25kReligion$25kHuman Services$11kInternational$4kHousing & Shelter$4kEnvironment$3kHealth$1kCivil Rights$500
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$477k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF CHINATOWN LIBRARY$10,388
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Pho Da Son Quan Am Po Tat Tu$5,000
The Nature Conservancy$1,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$1,000
Los Angeles Mission$1,000
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 (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ORANGE COUNTY CHINESE FRIENDSHIP AS: $10k → 10%Los Angeles Mission: $1k → 14%The Nature Conservancy: $1k → 7%Giac Ngan Monastery: $1k → 10%Los Angeles Mission: $1k → 14%The Nature Conservancy: $500 → 7%Los Angeles Mission: $1k → 14%The Nature Conservancy: $500 → 7%Los Angeles Mission: $500 → 14%The Nature Conservancy: $500 → 7%Arcadia Methodist Foundation: $1k → 14%American Legion Post 397: $1k → 14%CASA of Los Angeles: $500 → 14%FRIENDS OF CHINATOWN LIBRARY: $10k → 14%FRIENDS OF CHINATOWN LIBRARY: $9k → 14%FRIENDS OF CHINATOWN LIBRARY: $6k → 14%Pho Da Son Quan Am Po Tat Tu: $5k → 14%Pho Da Son Quan Am Po Tat Tu: $2k → 14%SCA Thien Hau Thanh Mau Association: $2k → 14%Pho Da Son Quan Am Po Tat Tu: $2k → 14%Pho Da Son Quan Am Po Tat Tu: $2k → 14%Ming Ya: $5k → 14%Ming Ya: $2k → 14%Ming Ya: $2k → 14%Ming Ya: $2k → 14%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 20% of Great Golden Opportunity Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 76%.

Great Golden Opportunity Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$55k · 5 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$55k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+44%

Still filing today

80%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHousing & ShelterCivil RightsReligionOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHINATOWN LIBRARY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +656%
  • PD
    PHO DA SON QUAN AM BO TAT TU INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +20%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • OC
    ORANGE COUNTY CHINESE FRIENDSHIP AS
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • ST
    SCA Thien Hau Thanh Mau Association
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • AL
    American Legion Post 397
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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
05the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 12 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPHO DA SON QUAN AM BO TAT TU INC: $11,000 · OtherPHO DA SON QUAN AM BO TAT TU INCORANGE COUNTY CHINESE FRIENDSHIP AS: $10,000 · OtherORANGE COUNTY CHINESE FRIENDSHIP ASTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYSCA Thien Hau Thanh Mau Association: $2,000 · Other+2 more: $2,100 · Other+2 moreFRIENDS OF THE CHINATOWN LIBRARY: $25,388 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE CHINATOWN LIBRARYMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,000 · InternationalLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $3,500 · Housing & ShelterGIAC NGAN MONASTERY: $1,000 · ReligionCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $500 · Civil Rights
Other$38,600Education$25,388International$4,000Housing & Shelter$3,500Religion$1,000Civil Rights$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHINATOWN LIBRARY: $25,388 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetPHO DA SON QUAN AM BO TAT TU INC: $11,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIAC NGAN MONASTERY: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHINATOWN LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds PHO DA SON QUAN AM BO TAT TU INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds GIAC NGAN MONASTERY ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF LOS ANGELES ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Great Golden Opportunity Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Great Golden Opportunity Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
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    How do I get to Great Golden Opportunity Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Great Golden Opportunity Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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