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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 FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$119kArts & Culture$94kHealth$90kAnimals$64kEnvironment$56kInternational$54kCivil Rights$26kPublic Safety & Disaster$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$131k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WINCHESTER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION$8,000
WGBH$8,000
THE TRUSTEES$8,000
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON$6,000
WINCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL$5,000
WINCHESTER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION$5,000
PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM$5,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$3,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$3,000
FRIENDS OF WINCHESTER LIBRARY$3,000
CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$2,000
SUSAN G KOMEN$2,000
DIRECT RELIEF$2,000
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 (FY22–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PINE STREET INN: $3k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $5k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $4k → 16%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

NH
IL
NY
MA
SD
IA
IN
NJ
CA
NE
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$434k · 49 repeat orgs$186k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
55

Total granted

$434k
$156k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
0%

Still filing today

69%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalArts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2022–2025 · $24k · revenue +23%
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $23k · revenue +7%
  • MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $17k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • SS
    STANFORD SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • SS
    STANFORD SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • ML
    MAHPIYA LUTA RED CLOUD SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
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
4
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
5
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
6
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
7
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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8
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
9
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
10
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
11
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
12
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 119 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
71/72
Grantees still filing
44/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $22,100 · OtherMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTONSTANFORD SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES: $20,000 · OtherSTANFORD SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SCIENCESTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $16,000 · OtherSTANFORD SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES: $15,000 · OtherWGBH: $14,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $13,000 · OtherWINCHESTER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $13,000 · OtherCORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY: $13,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $12,094 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $23,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC+59 more: $175,910 · Other+59 morePEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $14,000 · Arts & CulturePEABODY ES…ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureISABELLA S…WINCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL TRUST: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWINCHESTER…WGBH Educational Foundation: $8,000 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educa…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,800 · Arts & CultureThe United…THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK…NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $33,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $8,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL R…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $6,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST…NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL …+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentUnited States Association for UNHCR: $16,000 · InternationalTECHNOSERVE INC: $7,800 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $5,500 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $5,036 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $4,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $2,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $2,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $2,000 · International+3 more: $2,600 · InternationalThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $9,000 · HealthFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $8,400 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $6,650 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $4,250 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 · HealthMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,000 · HealthNAMI National: $1,500 · Health+3 more: $3,000 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $16,500 · AnimalsAlley Cat Allies Inc: $11,000 · AnimalsMERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC: $7,500 · AnimalsANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $3,000 · AnimalsDefenders of Wildlife: $2,500 · Animals+3 more: $2,600 · AnimalsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $24,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $3,000 · Human Services
Other$357,104Arts & Culture$58,300Environment$51,500International$49,936Health$43,300Animals$43,100Human Services$36,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $12,094 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL TRUST: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWinchester Scholarship Foundation: $9,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $8,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC: $7,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $6,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWINCHESTER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $5,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNative American Heritage Association: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $5,036 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $4,874 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $4,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,000 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.

Cummings Foundation G…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Gold Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gold Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Save Ellis Island Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Winchester Seniors Association Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to The Gold Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Gold 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 119 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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