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The Fund for Good Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$380k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$805kReligion$255kCommunity Improvement$220kEducation$145kInternational$50kAnimals$49kHousing & Shelter$35kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $280k
$45,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY$175,000
PRISON FELLOWSHIP$55,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SW INDIANA$50,000
COMMUNITY ONE$45,000
PREGNANCY HELP INC$25,000
HABITAT FOR CHILDEN MINISTERIES$10,000
MURRAY STATE FOUNDATION$10,000
ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PREGNANCY HELP INC: $25k → 17%HABITAT FOR CHILDEN MINISTERIES: $10k → 13%HOUSE OF BREAD & PEACE: $10k → 15%PREGNANCY HELP INC: $25k → 17%PREGNANCY HELP INC: $25k → 17%PREGNANCY HELP INC: $10k → 17%PREGNANCY HELP INC: $10k → 17%PREGNANCY HELP INC: $10k → 17%PREGNANCY HELP INC: $10k → 17%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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 8 repeat orgs$159k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$1.6M
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

38%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • FO
    FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $680k
  • TN
    THE NYC LEADERSHIP CENTER
    3× · 2017–2021 · $220k
  • PF
    PRISON FELLOWSHIP
    5× · 2021–2025 · $150k

Funded once

  • LN
    LEAVE NO PAWS BEHIND INC
    one grant, 2024 · $49k · revenue -25%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • HO
    HOUSE OF BREAD AND PEACE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Helping Hounds Find Homesinc

Saving the lives of homeless and unwanted pets in harrison county kentucky and surrounding areas.

Animals
2
Haven House Emergency Shelter

Homeless shelter

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3
Adoption Institute of Colorado

To faciliate adoption placement

Human Services
4
Lighthouse Ministries Inc

Provide a home and care for unwed pregnant girls

Religion
5
Hephzibah House Inc

Charitable support of Hope Baptist Church in Warsaw, Indiana for ministry, evangelism and education

Human Services
6
Habitat for Humanity of Archuleta County Inc

Provide affordable housing

—
7
House of Hope Ministries

Provide a home for children who have been abandoned and abused.

International
8
New Life Ministries Indiana Inc

To serve those in need of food, shelter, and a purpose-filled life.

Food & Nutrition
9
Hand in Hand Christian Adoption Inc
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10
The Elizabeth House Maternity Home

Crisis Pregnancy Center

Human Services
11
Family Promise of Greater Indianapolis Inc

Indianapolis Interfaith Hospitality Network leverages the resources of houses of worship in the greater Indianapolis area to provide emergency shelter, food, case management, and aftercare services to families experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
12
Pet Haven Inc

Placement of animals that we acquire through our shelter program

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community One Inc; the most unlike its peers is Leave No Paws Behind Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 15 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)
7/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $680,000 · OtherFOCUS ON THE FAMILYTHE NYC LEADERSHIP CENTER: $220,000 · OtherTHE NYC LEADERSHIP CENTERPRISON FELLOWSHIP: $150,000 · OtherPRISON FELLOWSHIPCONCORDIA COLLEGE: $140,000 · OtherCONCORDIA COLLEGELAKEVIEW MINISTRIES: $90,000 · OtherLAKEVIEW MINISTRIES+3 more: $50,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ONE INC: $140,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY…PREGNANCY HELP INC: $115,000 · Human ServicesHabitat for Children Ministries Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF BREAD AND PEACE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesJunior Achievement of SW Indiana Inc: $50,000 · InternationalLEAVE NO PAWS BEHIND INC: $49,484 · AnimalsTHE LITERACY CENTER INC: $5,000 · Education
Other$1,330,000Housing & Shelter$140,000Human Services$135,000International$50,000Animals$49,484Education$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY ONE INC: $140,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetCONCORDIA COLLEGE: $140,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPREGNANCY HELP INC: $115,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetJunior Achievement of SW Indiana Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLEAVE NO PAWS BEHIND INC: $49,484 over 1y, 13% of budgetHabitat for Children Ministries Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetHOUSE OF BREAD AND PEACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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.

  • Who funds COMMUNITY ONE INC ↗
  • Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PREGNANCY HELP INC ↗
  • Who funds Junior Achievement of SW Indiana Inc ↗
  • Who funds LEAVE NO PAWS BEHIND INC ↗
  • Who funds Habitat for Children Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF BREAD AND PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LITERACY CENTER 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.

Welborn Baptist Foundation IncIN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Welborn Baptist Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Fund for Good Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fund for Good Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Fund for Good Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Fund for Good Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 15 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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