Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Gold Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $90k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 66
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 66
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $131k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations The Gold Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $90k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 66 | $233k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $177k | 78% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $81k | 65% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $29k | 85% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $5k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $5k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Trustees of Reservations | $33,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $24,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $23,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $16,500 | 2 | 0% |
| United States Association for UNHCR | $16,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $16,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Peabody Essex Museum Inc | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $12,094 | 5 | 0% |
| Alley Cat Allies Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($229k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gold Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About The Gold Foundation Inc
- How much does The Gold Foundation Inc give?
- The Gold Foundation Inc reported 40 grants totaling $89,950 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 66 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Gold Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Arts & Culture (15%), Health (14%).
- Who are The Gold Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Trustees of Reservations ($33k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($24k), Southern Poverty Law Center Inc ($23k).
- Does The Gold Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gold Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Gold Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), The Pfizer Foundation Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Gold Foundation Inc based?
- The Gold Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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