· Private foundation
R R & Clara J Gould Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of R R & CLARA J GOULD 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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JAMESTOWN YMCA (AND TEAM) | $5,175 |
| BRAINERD ROTARY FOUNDATION | $5,050 |
| BRAINERD FAMILY YMCA | $4,980 |
| ELKS LODGE #615 | $4,030 |
| AURORA LODGE #100 MASONIC TEMPLE | $3,510 |
| CENTRAL MINNESOTA COUNCIL | $2,830 |
| BRAINERD AREA GIRL SCOUTS | $1,950 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF JAMESTOWN INC | $1,440 |
| CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC | $1,440 |
| ST LUKES CHURCH YOUTH MINISTRY | $1,270 |
| ALLEGHENY COUNCIL BSA | $1,065 |
| FAMILY SERVICE OF THE CHAUTAUQUA REGION | $1,060 |
| CONFIDENCE LEARNING CENTER | $1,060 |
| LUCILLE M WRIGHT AIR MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| CROW WING COUNTY UNITED WAY INC | $800 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BRBRAINERD ROTARY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +96%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BRAINERD6× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +106%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF Jamestown NEW YORK3× · 2018–2021 · $13k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
- ALAURORA LODGE #100one grant, 2017 · $3k
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The ymca strengthen's the community by providing quality programs that promote youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. we are a y without walls model. as a community based service provider, we remain flexible -…
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
Our mission is to build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities. The YMCA of the Chippewa Valley is a community centered association dedicated to building a healthy spirit, mind and body for all people, while maintaining an…
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
The young men's christian association of birmingham, inc. is a charitable organization that opens its doors to all women, men, families, teenagers, and children regardless of their ability to pay. the mission of the ymca is to put…
The mission of the lake county ymca is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
Our mission is to serve individuals and families in the csra through programs designed to build healthy spirit, mind, and body, reflecting the values of the judeo-christian tradition while maintaining respect for all people.
The channel islands ymca is a charitable organization providing programs based upon christian principles to people of all ages, races, religious beliefs and economic status, to promote youth development, healthy living and social…
To provide club members with a safe, supportive, fun, and enriching environment that inspires and empowers them to achieve their greatest potential. bgcmd accomplishes this mission with a foundational social- emotional learning approach…
See schedule o for form 990, part iii, line 1 - organization's mission
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Scouts of Western New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Winifred Crawford Dibert Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 44 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BRAINERD ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BRAINERD ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF Jamestown NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds CONFIDENCE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL BUNYAN ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF THE CHAUTAUQUA REGION INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater NY Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKES AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY HIGHLANDS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE WINIFRED CRAWFORD DIBERT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS LINE AND REFERRAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Communitygiving · Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inc · Lakes Media Collaborative · United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Inc · Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Initiative Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 R R & Clara J Gould 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.
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.