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· Private foundation
THE DONALD G AND ELLEN GOODWIN FAMILY
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$2.0M
Granted FY2024
26
Grants
8
Communities
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of THE DONALD G AND ELLEN GOODWIN FAMILY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2024 · 26 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k11 grants · $275k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.7M
$100,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
- SALVATION ARMY$200,000
- CARTER CENTER$125,000
- MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$125,000
- THE SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SP$125,000
- WORLD VISION$125,000
- HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$125,000
- CITY OF HOPE$100,000
- OC MEMORIAL CARE$100,000
- ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$100,000
- AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$100,000
- GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$100,000
- FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION$100,000
- BEST FRIENDS ANIMALS$100,000
- HELEN WOODWARD ANIMALS$100,000
- OLIVE CREST FOR CHILDREN$100,000
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:
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.6M · 27 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else
27 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
27
2
Total granted
$7.6M
$30k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+43%
+108%
Still filing today
26%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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
WORLD VISION8× · 2017–2024 · $580k · revenue +43%- FWFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION8× · 2017–2024 · $455k · revenue +85%
- CCCARTER CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $380k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- TSTHE SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +108%
- ACART & CREATIVITY FOR HEALINGgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +69%
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.
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Habitat for Humanity
Our mission is to put love into action by bringing people together to build homes, communities and hope. Our vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
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2
She Is Safe Inc
She Is Safe prevents, rescues and restores women and girls from abuse and exploitation in high risk communities across the globe, equipping them to build lives of freedom and faith for a strong future.
International
3
Witness Inc
Witness helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights. the organization operates globally. witness' global team designs solutions, provides guidance, and co-develops strategies that enable human rights defenders…
International
4
Compassion International Incorporated
Releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name.
International
5
S a F E Shelter
Provides Crisis intervention and advocacy for Victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. Provides Emergency confidential Shelter to victims of Domestic Violence.
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6
Suncoast Humane Societyinc
Our mission is to encourage, honor and support the human-animal bond in the suncoastregion of florida. our vision is to celebrate a community whose pets are safe andloved. suncoast humane society provides sheltering, prevention and…
Animals
7
Humane Society of Charlotte Inc
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Animals
8
Humane Society of Southern Arizona
Compassionately serving pets and the people who love them.
Animals
9
Inclusive Development International
Through research, casework and policy advocacy, Inclusive Development International holds corporations, financial institutions and development agencies accountable to their human rights and environmental responsibilities and works to…
International
10
State Humane Association of Ca
Support, educate, and assist humane societies, animal control agencies, and other animal welfare organizations.
Animals
11
Mendocino Coast Humane Society
Caring for homeless animals, and finding homes for them through pet adoptions.
Animals
12
Humane World for Animals Inc
Humane World for Animals, Inc., formerly known as the Humane Society of the United States (THE HSUS), seeks to tackle the root causes of animal cruelty and suffering.
Animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friendship Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is San Diego Humane Society & Spca. 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
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$5,610,000International$960,000Health$455,000Human Services$360,000Housing & Shelter$180,000Philanthropy$125,000Animals$15,000Arts & Culture$15,000
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.
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.
Orange County Community FoundationCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organisation THE DONALD G AND ELLEN GOODWIN FAMILY 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
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ART & CREATIVITY FOR HEALING.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 9 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
9 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +69% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 330936136 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ART & CREATIVITY FOR HEALING, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to The Donald G and Ellen Goodwin Family?
Find your warmest path to The Donald G and Ellen Goodwin Family through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines