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The Arnold Gold Foundation

The gold foundation champions humanism in healthcare, which we define as clinically excellent care that is kind, safe, and trustworthy.

$90k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Education$228kHealth$227kScience & Tech$45kRecreation & Sports$41kYouth Development$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $22,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $89,877 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $67,377 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$15,000
THE OHIO STATE UNIV COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$7,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $7k → 8%Mayo Clinic: $8k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $15k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%The Pennsylvania State University: $7k → 12%Board of Trustees Leland Stanford Jr University: $10k → 7%Ruth Shim Consultant: $15k → 12%Shared Harvest Foundation Inc: $9k → 14%NYU Grossman School of Medicine: $17k → 17%MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER: $8k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH: $7k → 14%Association of American Medical Colleges: $25k → 14%CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $8k → 19%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 15%Northwestern University: $22k → 14%Rutgers The State University of NJ: $20k → 16%Johns Hopkins University: $18k → 19%CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE PHYSICIANS ORG: $88k → 8%Regents of the univ of MINNESOTA: $10k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 8%New York University: $7k → 17%MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER: $8k → 20%National Academy of Sciences: $15k → 14%Ohio State University: $10k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $8k → 14%RUTGERS NJ MEDICAL SCHOOL: $20k → 16%Johns Hopkins University: $17k → 19%CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE foundation inc: $8k → 8%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $7k → 17%Association of American Medical Colleges: $11k → 14%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%University of Chicago: $5k → 14%Rutgers The State University of NJ: $10k → 16%Johns Hopkins University: $8k → 19%Trustees of Columbia U in the City of NY: $10k → 17%Association of American Medical Colleges: $10k → 14%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 15%Rutgers The State University of NJ: $10k → 16%Johns Hopkins University: $7k → 19%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY VAGELOS COLLEGE: $10k → 17%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $10k → 14%THE OHIO STATE UNIV COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $8k → 15%RUTGERS NJ MEDICAL SCHOOL: $10k → 16%Association of American Medical Colleges: $10k → 14%Research Inst at Nationwide Childrens Hospital: $18k → 15%Association of American Medical Colleges: $6k → 14%Association of American Medical Colleges: $6k → 14%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DC
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$354k · 11 repeat orgs$203k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
12

Total granted

$354k
$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+46%

Still filing today

55%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthScience & TechRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES
    6× · 2018–2023 · $68k · revenue +64%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $49k · revenue +42%
  • NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    2× · 2018–2020 · $25k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • CH
    CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE PHYSICIANS ORGANIZATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $88k · revenue +46%
  • Northwestern Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $22k · revenue +33%
  • NC
    NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $18k

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
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
2
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
5
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
6
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
7
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
10
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

11
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University and the most unlike its peers is Maimonides Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%45%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%45%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/25
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,540

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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 26 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
14/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $40,774 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYRutgers the State University — $40,000 · OtherRutgers the State UniversityRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $24,860 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC — $17,500 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INCIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY — $7,500 · OtherJOHN SEALY HOSPITALUTMB — $7,484 · OtherWeill Medical College of Cornell Univers — $7,443 · Other+1 more — $7,409 · OtherASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES — $68,000 · EducationASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEG…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $48,996 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYNew York University — $23,671 · EducationNew York UniversityTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $20,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN…University of Chicago — $12,702 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationSHARED HARVEST FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $7,500 · EducationCAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE PHYSICIANS ORGANIZATION INC — $87,500 · HealthCAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIAN…MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER — $15,000 · HealthMAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENT…THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN — $7,500 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FO…MAYO CLINIC — $7,500 · HealthMAYO CLINICCAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · HealthCAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIAN…NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $25,000 · Science & TechNorthwestern University — $21,694 · Recreation & Sports
Other$222,970Education$199,869Health$125,000Science & Tech$25,000Recreation & Sports$21,694

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE PHYSICIANS ORGANIZATION INC — $87,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES — $68,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $48,996 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $23,671 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $21,694 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $12,702 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

American Cancer Society IncGA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Cancer Society Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 The Arnold Gold 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
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 26 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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