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Maud and Burton Goldfield Family Foundation

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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2019–2025.

Animals$2.4MEnvironment$1.1MRecreation & Sports$463kEducation$312kPhilanthropy$242kCommunity Improvement$55kHealth$43kEmployment$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $305k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $610k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PETS IN NEED$300,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$150,000
MOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION INC$100,000
PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST$100,000
TONY LA RUSSAS ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION$100,000
SUMMIT LAND CONSERVANCY$60,000
ELIZABETH F GAMBLE GARDEN$50,000
COLLEGE TRACK$50,000
MERCY FOR ANIMALS$35,000
NUZZLES & CO$35,000
LOS ALTOS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$30,000
YOSEMITE FOUNDATION$30,000
FRIENDS OF THE DESERT MOUNTAINS$20,000
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$20,000
THE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND$20,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHARE THE MAGIC FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 13%MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%SHARE THE MAGIC FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 13%MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%GIVE FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 8%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

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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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.4M · 47 repeat orgs$182k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
28

Total granted

$4.4M
$152k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+2%

Still filing today

96%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentRecreation & SportsEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • PI
    Pets In Need
    7× · 2019–2025 · $880k · revenue +44%
  • BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $625k · revenue +44%
  • PO
    PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST
    7× · 2019–2025 · $470k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • US
    UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +64%
  • EG
    ECHOING GREEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -35%
  • RB
    RED BRIDGE EDUCATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +239%

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
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
2
Rainforest Trust

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

International
3
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
4
United Animal Nations Dba Redrover

To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…

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5
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
6
Parks California

As california state parks' statutory non-profit partner, we have a clear mission - to help strengthen parks and inspire all people to experience these extraordinary places.

Environment
7
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
8
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

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

Animals
9
Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills

Our mission is to protect local nature and farmland to ensure a healthy environment for everyone.

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10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
12
The Trust for Public Land

The trust for public land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. in the past year, we helped communities to plan for parks and conservation, fund parks and conservation,…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is African Parks Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Moonsong Malamute Rescue Inc. 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 backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …School District FoundationsLocal Food System Organizat…Youth Sports ProgramsChristian Missionary Organi…Jewish Community Organizati…Cancer Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Elementary Literacy TutoringCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and Shelter
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 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%5%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr11%16%35–55yr13%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr17%40%20–35yr11%16%35–55yr13%36%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/79
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,899

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

76 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. 76 of the 83 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
76/76
Grantees still filing
43/76
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Pets In Need — $880,000 · AnimalsPets In NeedBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $625,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYJoybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation — $545,000 · AnimalsJoybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue F…MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC — $125,000 · Animals+15 more — $302,500 · Animals+15 morePENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $470,000 · EnvironmentPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUSTMOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION — $335,000 · EnvironmentMOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATIONELIZABETH F GAMBLE GARDEN — $130,000 · EnvironmentELIZABETH F GAMBLE GARDENSummit Land Conservancy — $112,000 · EnvironmentSummit Land ConservancyNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $75,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION A…+4 more — $69,500 · Environment+4 moreCOLLEGE TRACK — $200,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $17,000 · EducationECHOING GREEN INC — $10,000 · EducationRED BRIDGE EDUCATION — $10,000 · Education+4 more — $14,000 · EducationLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $102,500 · PhilanthropyTHE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND — $87,500 · PhilanthropySILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURE FUND - SV2 — $51,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $8,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Recreation & SportsYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $49,000 · Recreation & SportsAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $13,000 · Recreation & SportsPALO ALTO SWIM CLUB — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+4 more — $7,700 · Recreation & SportsPARK CITY CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $72,500 · OtherPARK CITY AQUATIC TEAM BOOSTERS INC — $15,000 · OtherTHE TECH INTERACTIVE — $46,000 · OtherNATIVE RENEWABLES INC — $13,000 · OtherSUMMER SEARCH — $14,500 · OtherSUMMIT COMMUNITY GARDENS AND EATS — $10,000 · OtherFAMILY DOG & PUPPY RESCUE — $10,000 · Other+24 more — $81,500 · OtherNOVACOMM — $50,000 · Community ImprovementSILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $12,500 · Community ImprovementRotary District 5170 Foundation — $2,500 · Community Improvement
Animals$2,477,500Environment$1,191,500Education$251,000Philanthropy$249,500Recreation & Sports$154,700Other$262,500Community Improvement$65,000

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 budgetPets In Need — $880,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $625,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJoybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation — $545,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $470,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION — $335,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK — $200,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetELIZABETH F GAMBLE GARDEN — $130,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC — $125,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSummit Land Conservancy — $112,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $102,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND — $87,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPARK CITY CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $72,500 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC — $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNuzzles & Co — $57,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURE FUND - SV2 — $51,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNOVACOMM — $50,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $49,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TECH INTERACTIVE — $46,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DESERT MOUNTAINS — $45,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNatureServe — $37,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMOONSONG MALAMUTE RESCUE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE — $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE — $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JMT WILDERNESS CONSERVANCY — $18,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSWEET FARM FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH — $14,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS Of Great Salt Lake — $13,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAKASHINGA INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE RENEWABLES INC — $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMIT COMMUNITY GARDENS AND EATS — $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRED BRIDGE EDUCATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPALO ALTO SWIM CLUB — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCP EXTENSION INC — $8,500 over 4y, 23% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE THE MAGIC FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROSE — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Hydro Foundation Inc — $6,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTRANSFORM A STREET DOG — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

The David and Lucile …Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…Ssir Cares IncBright Funds Foundati…Sad Foundation IncGeorge S and Dolores …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Gordon E and Betty I …Jeffrey & Leslie Fisc…The McGuire Family Fo…Hodgman Family Founda…
The David and Lucile Packard FoundationCA22.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Ssir Cares Inc · Bright Funds Foundation · Sad Foundation Inc · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Jeffrey & Leslie Fischer Family Fdn · The McGuire Family Foundation · Hodgman Family 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 Maud and Burton Goldfield 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 83 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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