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The Gold Family Foundation at a glance

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The Gold Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$175k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$338kEducation$199kArts & Culture$138kInternational$84kHuman Services$80kHealth$78kReligion$39kCivil Rights$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$55,000
ROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER$35,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$10,000
COLUMBIA ALUMNI CENTER$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
TEMPLE EMMANUEL$3,500
THE WASHINGTON BALLET$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO$500
02The need
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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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES: $2k → 20%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES: $1k → 20%ASIAN PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $500 → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS DENVER: $1k → 12%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

WA
MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
AR
TN
DC
AL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 22% of The Gold Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Gold Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$536k · 26 repeat orgs$248k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
46

Total granted

$536k
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+47%

Still filing today

46%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • KD
    KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $56k · revenue +75%
  • HH
    HALCYON HOUSE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $38k · revenue +63%
  • NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH
    2× · 2017–2020 · $37k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS & SISTERS
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • NJ
    NATIONAL JEWISH HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2018 · $16k
  • HM
    HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
3
Dc Bilingual Public Charter School

The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.

Education
4
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
5
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
6
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
7
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
8
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
9
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
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
11
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
12
University of Miami

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Services for the Underserved Inc; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 79 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
29/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM: $55,000 · OtherGUGGENHEIM MUSEUMMACALLESTER FUND: $35,000 · OtherMACALLESTER FUNDSALVATION ARMY: $34,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYTHE UNIVERSITY OF PA-WHARTON FUND: $30,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF PA-WHARTON FUNDTEMPLE EMMANUEL: $25,367 · OtherTEMPLE EMMANUELBIG BROTHERS & SISTERS: $20,000 · OtherNATIONAL JEWISH HOSPITAL: $16,000 · OtherJORDAN RIVER FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Other+43 more: $192,497 · Other+43 moreRose Community Foundation: $287,500 · PhilanthropyRose Community Foundation+1 more: $1,200 · PhilanthropyKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $56,000 · EducationKENT DENVER COU…Cornell University: $55,000 · EducationCornell Univers…EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION: $18,000 · EducationEMILY GRIFFITH …UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF D…+5 more: $8,500 · Education+5 moreMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $82,500 · InternationalMERIDIAN …National Iranian American Council: $6,000 · InternationalNational …+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalHALCYON HOUSE: $38,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FLEA THEATER INC: $7,000 · Arts & CulturePAAIA FUND: $3,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureSITAR ARTS CENTER: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $37,000 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human Services
Other$422,864Philanthropy$288,700Education$147,500International$89,500Arts & Culture$54,000Health$43,000Human Services$29,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRose Community Foundation: $287,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $82,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $56,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCornell University: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHALCYON HOUSE: $38,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $37,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FLEA THEATER INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF MOP FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetNational Iranian American Council: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLIFT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSERVICES FOR THE UNDERSERVED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAAIA FUND: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY FOR PRECISION LEARNING: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSITAR ARTS CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISHColorado: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON BALLET: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADDIE'S MARK FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE CUSHING ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAsian Pacific Development Center of COLORADO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDORRANCE DANCE INCORPORATED: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $100 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.

  • Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds HALCYON HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FLEA THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF MOP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds National Iranian American Council ↗
  • Who funds LIFT INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SERVICES FOR THE UNDERSERVED INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD 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.

Tides FoundationThe Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Xcel Energy FoundationNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Ayco Charitable F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…
Tides FoundationCA12.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

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    How do I get to The Gold Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Gold Family Foundation 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 79 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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