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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $22,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $89,877 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $67,377 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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 NJ MEDICAL SCHOOL: $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 The State University of NJ: $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%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY VAGELOS COLLEGE: $10k → 17%Association of American Medical Colleges: $10k → 14%THE OHIO STATE UNIV COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $8k → 15%Rutgers The State University of NJ: $10k → 16%Johns Hopkins University: $7k → 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 NJ MEDICAL SCHOOL: $10k → 16%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $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
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

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +46% for those 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
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

  • 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
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
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
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
5
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
6
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
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
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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10
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
11
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
12
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
14/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 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.

American Cancer Socie…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
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

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 The Arnold Gold Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Arnold Gold Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% 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, 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 26 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 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 regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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