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My Good Fund

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.

$6.0M
Granted FY2022
23
Grants FY2022
8
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+5 grants · $4.8M
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$740k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY$2,500,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$1,000,000
CONSERVATION LANDS FOUNDATION$600,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$500,000
GLYNWOOD CENTER$250,000
WAVE HILL$200,000
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION$150,000
HAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL$150,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$145,000
TRACY AVIARY$100,000
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION$55,000
DUTCHESS DAY SCHOOL$50,000
SCENIC HUDSON$50,000
SCIENCE MOAB$50,000
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY$50,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $500k → 10%GLYNWOOD CENTER: $250k → 6%SCENIC HUDSON: $50k → 9%CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY: $20k → 16%OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE: $20k → 17%WAVE HILL: $200k → 28%THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $2.5M → 14%INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION: $55k → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $1.0M → 8%SCIENCE MOAB: $50k → 11%RIVERS EDGE WEST: $40k → 11%CONSERVATION LANDS FOUNDATION: $600k → 12%NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $150k → 6%DUTCHESS DAY SCHOOL: $50k → 9%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $145k → 8%FRIENDS OF ARCHES & CANYONLAND: $15k → 11%HAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL: $150k → 8%ARTSPACE: $25k → 8%UTAH OPEN LANDS: $25k → 8%TRACY AVIARY: $100k → 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 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.

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Rainforest Trust

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

International
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
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
Western Rivers Conservancy

Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…

Environment
5
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
6
Wild Earth Society Incorporated

Wildlands Network works to reconnect, restore and rewild North America so that life-in all its diversity-can thrive.

Arts & Culture
7
Teton Regional Land Trust Inc

The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.

Environment
8
Wild Landscapes Inc

Wild landscapes, inc. (wli) is dedicated to conserving large and connected landscapes globally significant to wildlife and crucial to local communities. our environmental conservation strategy is to empower communities, conservationists,…

Animals
9
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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10
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
11
The Wildlands Conservancy

The Wildlands Conservancy's dual mission is to preserve the beauty and biodiversity of the earth and to provide programs so that children may know the wonder and joy of nature.

Environment
12
Swan Valley Connections

Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Space Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Riversedge West. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 23 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)
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Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $2,500,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETYConservation Lands Foundation — $600,000 · EnvironmentConservation Lands FoundationTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $500,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDWAVE HILL INCORPORATED — $200,000 · Environment+6 more — $155,000 · EnvironmentRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc — $1,000,000 · HealthRonald McDonald Ho…HAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC — $150,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $150,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY — $100,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 · AnimalsTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $145,000 · OtherMONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · OtherARTSPACE — $25,000 · OtherCORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY — $20,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF ARCHES & CANYONLAND — $15,000 · OtherGLYNWOOD CENTER INC — $250,000 · Public BenefitDUTCHESS DAY SCHOOL — $50,000 · EducationSCIENCE MOAB ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE — $50,000 · Education
Environment$3,955,000Health$1,000,000Animals$455,000Other$255,000Public Benefit$250,000Education$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $2,500,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc — $1,000,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetConservation Lands Foundation — $600,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGLYNWOOD CENTER INC — $250,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetWAVE HILL INCORPORATED — $200,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC — $150,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $145,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY — $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDUTCHESS DAY SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSCIENCE MOAB ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE — $50,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetRIVERSEDGE WEST — $40,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetARTSPACE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS Of Great Salt Lake — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSAVE THE WORLDS RIVERS FKA SAVE THE COLORADO — $10,000 over 1y, 7.7% 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.

Palladium FoundationThe Walbridge FundPatagoniaorgThe Community Foundat…Willard L Eccles Char…David Kelby Johnson M…Lawrence & Janet Dee …Pacificorp Foundation…The Nature ConservancyThe Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…
Palladium FoundationUT30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Palladium Foundation · The Walbridge Fund · Patagoniaorg · The Community Foundation of Utah · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · The Nature Conservancy · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 My Good Fund 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.

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no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to My Good Fund?

    Find your warmest path to My Good Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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