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The Golden Valley Ranch Family Foundation at a glance

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The Golden Valley Ranch Family Foundation

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.

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Religion$80kPhilanthropy$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kPublic Benefit$1kHuman Services$800Health$600Crime & Legal$250Civil Rights$234Other$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$254k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH$25,500
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY$1,000
TURNING POINT USA INC$1,000
COMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION$500
DWELL - LYCOMING COUNTY$100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DWELL - LYCOMING COUNTY: $100 → 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.
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
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
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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2
Country First Foundation

At country first foundation we pursue a path to educate the public on important civic and policy issues. country first foundation strives to support nonprofits that are working on proven solutions that empower local communities from the…

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3
Fdd Action

FDD Action is a non-profit, non-partisan 504(c)4 organization established to advocate for effective policies to promote U.S. National Security and defend free nations.

Community Improvement
4
Foreign Policy for America

Foreign Policy For America is a nonpartisan advocacy organization founded to strengthen support for principled American engagement in the world.

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5
Fpc Action Foundation

Fpc action foundation fpcaf works to create a world of maximal liberty, end government coercion, and restore the right to keep and bear arms through legal action, research, education, and other charitable programs.

Civil Rights
6
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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7
Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation Inc

The pennsylvania pro-life federation, inc., is committed to promoting the dignity and value of human life from conception to natural death and to restoring legal protection for the unborn. through legislation, education and other legal…

Civil Rights
8
Moral Compass Federation Inc

Moral compass federation facilitates collaboration among multiple veteran-led nonprofit organizations, individuals, and businesses who came together during the fall of kabul, afghanistan to evacuate and resettle afghan allies who were in…

Public Benefit
9
American Gas Foundation

The mission of the american gas foundation is to be an independent source of information, research, and programs on energy and environmental issues that affect public policy with a particular emphasis on natural gas.

Public Benefit
10
Faith in Public Life Inc

Faith in public life's mission is to advance the moral imperative for a just, inclusive and equitable country that allows each of us to live into our full humanity. we do this by building power and cultures of belongings among diverse…

Religion
11
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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12
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Giving Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Montour Township Fire Company. 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

15 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. 15 of the 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH: $56,000 · OtherNORTH AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCHST LUKE LUTHERAN CHURCH: $24,400 · OtherST LUKE LUTHERAN CHURCH+7 more: $3,050 · OtherCOMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CARLISLE & CUMBERLAND COUNTY: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC: $500 · HealthBUCKHORN VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY FIRE CO 1: $400 · Public Safety & DisasterNRA FOUNDATION INC: $250 · Crime & LegalPENNSYLVANIA PRO-LIFE FEDERATION EDUCATION FUND: $100 · Civil RightsStudents for Life of America Inc: $84 · Civil RightsLIVE ACTION: $50 · Civil RightsFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $100 · Human ServicesDWELL - LYCOMING COUNTY: $100 · Human Services
Other$83,450Philanthropy$4,500Health$500Public Safety & Disaster$400Crime & Legal$250Civil Rights$234Human Services$200

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 budgetCOMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CARLISLE & CUMBERLAND COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUCKHORN VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY FIRE CO 1: $400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNRA FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTOUR TOWNSHIP FIRE COMPANY: $200 over 1y, 65% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PRO-LIFE FEDERATION EDUCATION FUND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc: $84 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE ACTION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC: $50 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.

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Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 20 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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