· Private foundation
Pure Good Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
63% of Pure Good Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Pure Good Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $549k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k10 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $469k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII | $150,000 |
| TEAM4TECH FOUNDATION | $95,000 |
| KABOOM INC | $91,550 |
| AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC | $82,250 |
| KIDSPIRE | $50,000 |
| IRISH ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC | $16,802 |
| MOUNTAIN VIEW WHISMAN SCHOOL DISTRICT | $14,359 |
| SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION | $10,837 |
| TURNINGWHEELS FOR KIDS CO VMC FOUNDATION | $8,875 |
| HUNTING WITH HEROES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| DOWN SYNDROME CONNECTION OF THE BAY AREA | $5,000 |
| PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| MIKE'S BIKES FOUNDATION | $2,750 |
| IT4CC | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 83% of grant dollars ($7.8M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 17% that went abroad ($1.6M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 17% of all-years giving ($1.6M)
9 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 77% of Pure Good Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 7% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 5%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2019, 7 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTEAM4TECH FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $455k · revenue +358%
- KKIDSPIRE2× · 2018–2019 · $75k · revenue +2%
- PHProject Helping2× · 2021–2024 · $27k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $54k
- PTPrince's Trustone grant, 2017 · $31k
- AHAIM HIGHgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +103%
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.
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.
Endeavor is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement around the world.
Philanthropic collaborative focused on improving lives through just & inclusive systems change.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Technoserve's mission is to fight poverty by helping people build regenerative farms, businesses, and markets that increase incomes.
Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
Techsoup's mission is to build a dynamic bridge that leverages technology to enable connections and innovative solutions for a more equitable planet.
See attached statementprimary missionfuture 500 builds trust between corporations, advocates, investors, and philanthropists to advance business as a force for good. we are experts in stakeholder engagement with over 25 years of experience…
A social impact non-profit, space for humanity serves purpose-driven leaders through a sponsored spaceflight experience to create a profound shift in perspective, so that each citizen astronaut returns with a grander perspective to address…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.
How this is measured
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 63 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM4TECH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KABOOM INC ↗
- Who funds REWRITING THE CODE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDSPIRE ↗
- Who funds THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VISIT ORG PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Project Helping ↗
- Who funds URBAN GREEN LAB ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL PHELPS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Please Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MIKES BIKES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPARK PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds Wine to Water ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Education Outside ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME CONNECTION OF THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds HUNTING WITH HEROES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Atkinson Foundation · LPL Financial Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pure Good Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pure Good Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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