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Michael E McGoldrick Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$683kEducation$563kInternational$362kEnvironment$232kCivil Rights$175kCommunity Improvement$175kAnimals$103kCrime & Legal$103kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL$75,000
DENVER ZOO$75,000
LOOMA EDUCATION$75,000
REBUILDING HOPE SEXUAL ASSAULT CENT$75,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$60,000
RESPONSE HELP FOR SURVIVORS OF DOME$50,000
MOUNTAIN AREA LAND TRUST$50,000
CENTER FOR THE ARTS EVERGREEN$50,000
NORTHWEST YOUTH CORPS$50,000
MEDGLOBAL$50,000
NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
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:

Its 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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
CA
CO
MD
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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
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

  • 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%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -3%
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

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Area Land Trust; 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.
04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 70 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
23/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 …The Art Base: $30,000 · Arts & CultureThe Art BaseMuseum of Glass: $30,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of GlassOPERA 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…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $25,000 · EducationAMERICAN IND…ARBUTUS FOLK SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationARBUTUS FOLK…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 · InternationalWATERORG: $25,000 · InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $25,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $25,000 · International+1 more: $2,000 · InternationalFish For Change: $50,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesOlympia Family Theater: $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 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 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 budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRebuilding Hope Sexual Assault Center: $75,000 over 1y, 2.9% 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 budgetMedGlobal Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN AREA LAND TRUST: $50,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetFish For Change: $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetNORTHWEST YOUTH CORPS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 budgetThe Art Base: $30,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetPollinator Partnership: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMuseum of Glass: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALPINE LEGAL SERVICES INC: $28,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetEDUCATE GIRLS: $27,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget5Point Film Festival: $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetWATERORG: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOlympia Family Theater: $25,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetOPERA COLORADO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOLF HAVEN INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARBUTUS FOLK SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCARBONDALE ARTS: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% 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 budgetDANCEASPEN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCarbondale Education Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEADQUARTERS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAndy Zanca Youth Empowerment Program: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% 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
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Michael E McGoldrick Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael E McGoldrick Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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.

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 70 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home