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Michael E McGoldrick Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of MICHAEL E MCGOLDRICK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $748k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.4M
$30,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ECONOMIC LITERACY COLORADO$200,000
HAND IN HAND CENTER-ISRAEL$145,000
COMMUNITY BUILDERS$100,000
DENVER ZOO$75,000
REBUILDING HOPE SEXUAL ASSAULT CENT$75,000
LOOMA EDUCATION$75,000
COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL$75,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$60,000
MSU CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTS$50,000
NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS$50,000
OGLATA LAKOTA COLLEGE$50,000
FISH FOR CHANGE$50,000
TREE HOUSE FOR KIDS$50,000
MEDGLOBAL$50,000
NORTHWEST YOUTH CORPS$50,000
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 (FY24–24, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OLYMPIA FAMILY THEATER: $25k → 9%FISH FOR CHANGE: $50k → 12%WINDWALKERS: $20k → 6%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

ME
NH
WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
CA
CO
MD
GA
TX

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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$803k · 9 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 45 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
13

Total granted

$803k
$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+32%

Still filing today

89%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentInternationalAnimalsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • CB
    COMMUNITY BUILDERS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $175k · revenue +73%
  • LE
    LOOMA EDUCATION CORPORATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $85k · revenue +106% · 39% of their budget
  • BE
    BASALT EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $53k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • AV
    ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue -3%
  • WH
    WOLF HAVEN INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -8%
  • AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -3%

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
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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2
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…

Education
3
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
4
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
5
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
6
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
7
Confluence Center of Colorado Inc

The Center brings together mission-focused, nonpolitical organizations working at the confluence of land and water science, education, and stewardship to magnify our impact and ensure the longevity of our natural resources for future…

Environment
8
Colorado Headwaters Land Trust

To conserve and steward the open lands and natural character of the headwaters of the colorado river in partnership with the local community.

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9
Colo Foundation for Water Education

Water education colorado ensures coloradans are informed on water issues and equipped to make decisions that guide our state to a sustainable water future.

Environment
10
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
11
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
12
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Area Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is 5Point Film Festival. 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 backsteadyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Youth Development ServicesCommunity FoundationsLocal History MuseumsChristian Missionary Organi…Dance Arts OrganizationsSchool District FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Community Arts Centers
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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr15%10%5–10yr21%18%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr12%22%35–55yr13%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%14%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr12%27%35–55yr13%20%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/53
the rest of the field
13%
4,367/33,364

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

53 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. 53 of the 70 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
24/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COLORADO COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $210,000 · OtherCOLORADO COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATIONHAND IN HAND CENTER-ISRAEL — $145,000 · OtherHAND IN HAND CENTER-ISRAELRebuilding Hope Sexual Assault Center — $75,000 · OtherRebuilding Hope Sexual Assault CenterRESPONSE HELP FOR SURVIVORS OF DOME — $74,000 · OtherRESPONSE HELP FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMEMSU CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTS — $50,000 · OtherTREE HOUSE FOR KIDS — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $75,000 · OtherDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONMedGlobal Inc — $50,000 · OtherNORTHWEST YOUTH CORPS — $50,000 · OtherNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC — $50,000 · Other+21 more — $380,000 · Other+21 moreCenter for the Arts Evergreen Inc — $117,500 · Arts & CultureCenter for the A…COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL & CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS — $75,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO MUSIC F…MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ASSOCIATES…THE ARTS CAMPUS AT WILLITS — $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTS CAMPUS …Museum of Glass — $30,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of GlassThe Art Base — $30,000 · Arts & CultureThe Art BaseOPERA COLORADO — $25,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA COLORADO+2 more — $15,000 · Arts & CultureLOOMA EDUCATION CORPORATION — $85,000 · EducationLOOMA EDUCAT…BASALT EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $53,000 · EducationBASALT EDUCA…OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE — $50,000 · EducationOGLALA LAKOT…English in Action — $30,800 · EducationEnglish in A…ARBUTUS FOLK SCHOOL — $25,000 · EducationARBUTUS FOLK…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $25,000 · EducationAMERICAN IND…Carbondale Education Foundation — $10,000 · Education+3 more — $9,000 · EducationMOUNTAIN AREA LAND TRUST — $50,000 · EnvironmentASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $35,000 · EnvironmentPollinator Partnership — $30,000 · Environment5Point Film Festival — $25,000 · EnvironmentHIGH COUNTRY NEWS — $20,000 · EnvironmentCOLORADO WATER TRUST — $15,000 · Environment+2 more — $7,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY BUILDERS — $175,000 · Community ImprovementMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $60,000 · InternationalEDUCATE GIRLS — $27,500 · InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $25,000 · InternationalWATERORG — $25,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $25,000 · International+1 more — $2,000 · InternationalFish For Change — $50,000 · Human ServicesOlympia Family Theater — $25,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesWINDWALKERS EQUINE ASSISTED LEARNING AND — $20,000 · Human Services
Other$1,259,000Arts & Culture$377,500Education$287,800Environment$182,000Community Improvement$175,000International$164,500Human Services$120,000

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 budgetCOLORADO COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $210,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY BUILDERS — $175,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCenter for the Arts Evergreen Inc — $117,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetLOOMA EDUCATION CORPORATION — $85,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetRebuilding Hope Sexual Assault Center — $75,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL & CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS — $75,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBASALT EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $53,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetOGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN AREA LAND TRUST — $50,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetNORTHWEST YOUTH CORPS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMedGlobal Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFish For Change — $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ARTS CAMPUS AT WILLITS — $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEnglish in Action — $30,800 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMuseum of Glass — $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Art Base — $30,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetPollinator Partnership — $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALPINE LEGAL SERVICES INC — $28,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetEDUCATE GIRLS — $27,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget5Point Film Festival — $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetWOLF HAVEN INTERNATIONAL — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetARBUTUS FOLK SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOlympia Family Theater — $25,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetCARBONDALE ARTS — $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERORG — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERA COLORADO — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDWALKERS EQUINE ASSISTED LEARNING AND — $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY NEWS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO WATER TRUST — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCarbondale Education Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANCEASPEN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHEADQUARTERS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAndy Zanca Youth Empowerment Program — $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $3,000 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Aspen Community Found…Aspen Business Center…Western Colorado Comm…Rose Community Founda…The Thrift ShopArches FoundationAlpenglow FoundationGates Family Foundati…El Pomar FoundationOur Part co Marsha So…Brady Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO35.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Rose Community Foundation · The Thrift Shop · Arches Foundation · Alpenglow Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Our Part co Marsha Soffer · Brady 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 Michael E McGoldrick Charitable 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 · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Northwest Youth Corps — 100% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 70 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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