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The Goldman Sachs Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$40M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$4.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Community Improvement$166MEducation$61MInternational$8.2MCivil Rights$5.5MHealth$4.6MHousing & Shelter$3.0MPhilanthropy$2.1MYouth Development$2.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k7 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+35 grants · $39M
$600,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$690M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUMPSTART INC$4,330,195
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD$3,348,721
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS$3,339,402
BABSON COLLEGE$3,188,516
INITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY$2,857,092
LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,561,647
MIAMI DADE COLLEGE$1,463,773
CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,313,814
SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,270,358
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND$1,173,804
LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE$1,096,440
MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,089,319
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY$1,067,843
HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION$1,010,366
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION$975,903
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.

US giving: 83% of grant dollars ($215M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 17% that went abroad ($43M) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $5.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TIDES CENTER: $50k → 10%TORY BURCH FOUNDATION: $1.2M → 17%INCREASING HOPE INC: $100k → 12%CORNER TO CORNER: $150k → 14%BETHESDA CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS: $125k → 15%REALIZE IMPACT: $120k → 10%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $250k → 23%WE2GETHER CREATING CHANGE: $75k → 32%BUTTERFLY DREAMZ INC: $50k → 14%THE BRIDGE AGENCY: $75k → 19%BLACKFEM: $150k → 8%TIDES CENTER: $50k → 10%START SMALL THINK BIG INC: $8k → 17%INCREASING HOPE INC: $100k → 12%CORNER TO CORNER: $50k → 14%BETHESDA CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS: $125k → 15%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $50k → 23%WE2GETHER CREATING CHANGE: $75k → 32%BUTTERFLY DREAMZ INC: $50k → 14%THE BRIDGE AGENCY: $75k → 19%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $50k → 8%BLACKFEM: $50k → 8%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $501k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $272k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $225k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $225k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $222k → 17%PARADIGM FOR PARITY: $100k → 17%ON THE ROAD LENDING: $250k → 14%THE THERAPEUTIC PLAY FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%PARADIGM FOR PARITY: $100k → 17%THE GROWING SEASON: $125k → 14%THE THERAPEUTIC PLAY FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%THE GROWING SEASON: $125k → 14%MAMA GLOW FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%MAMA GLOW FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%UPTON PLANNING COMMITTEE INC: $75k → 19%UPTON PLANNING COMMITTEE INC: $75k → 19%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

ME
NH
WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 17% of all-years giving ($43M)

4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$31M · 13 grants
France$10.0M · 5 grants
Switzerland$1.2M · 4 grants
China$600k · 6 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
$231M · 95 repeat orgs$23M to everyone else

95 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

95
65

Total granted

$231M
$20M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+23%

Still filing today

74%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.8M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • BABSON COLLEGE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $19M · revenue +28%
  • IF
    INITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $15M · revenue +49% · 35% of their budget
  • JI
    JUMPSTART INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $7.3M · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Center for Strategic Economic Studies and Institutional Developmentgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2.3M · revenue ×33 · 86% of their budget
  • A5
    ACCELERATE 500 INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1.9M · revenue -63% · 28% of their budget
  • NY
    NEW YORK BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LDC
    one grant, 2020 · $1.8M
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
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…

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2
Cdc Small Business Finance Corporation

We help build inclusive and equitable communities by providing people access to the capital and opportunities they deserve.

Community Improvement
3
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
4
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
5
Baltimore Corps Inc

To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…

Employment
6
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
7
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
8
The Capital Good Fund

To create pathways out of poverty and advance a green economy through inclusive financial services.

Community Improvement
9
Impact Capital

Impact capital is a community development financial institution that makes strategic loans in organizations, tribal entities, and housing authorities to spur community development, including affordable housing, art and cultural centers,…

Public Benefit
10
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
11
Community Development Corporation of Long Island Inc

Cdcli invests in the housing and economic aspirations of individuals and families by providing solutions that foster and maintain vibrant, equitable, and sustainable communities.

Community Improvement
12
Calvert Impact Capital Inc

Calvert impact capital, inc. works for the benefit of underserved communities and individuals and to achieve a more equitable and sustainable world by maximizing the flow of capital in furtherance of such goals.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Medicine Policy Research Group; the most unlike its peers is The Mama Glow Foundation. 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

133 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. 133 of the 169 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.

17
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
130/133
Grantees still filing
80/133
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD: $21,001,343 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OXFORDINTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION: $20,583,143 · OtherINTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATIONESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL: $9,959,967 · OtherESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF LEEDS: $9,584,780 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF LEEDSLAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $9,362,166 · OtherLAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGELONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE: $6,917,191 · OtherCITY COLLEGES OF CHICAGO: $6,091,770 · OtherHOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $5,886,447 · OtherMIAMI DADE COLLEGE: $5,806,045 · OtherCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND: $5,762,856 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $5,535,988 · OtherDELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,230,897 · Other+59 more: $25,967,064 · Other+59 moreBABSON COLLEGE: $19,340,641 · EducationBABSON COLLEGECOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $6,894,113 · EducationCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHIL…Salt Lake Community College Foundation: $5,806,145 · EducationSalt Lake Community Colle…DALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $4,825,732 · EducationDALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION…THE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,768,149 · EducationTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSI…CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $4,383,880 · EducationCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEG…MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $3,000,000 · EducationCINCINNATI STATE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,433,085 · EducationTHE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $2,024,048 · Education+13 more: $5,535,406 · Education+13 moreCOMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC: $8,700,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY REI…JUMPSTART INC: $7,270,067 · Community ImprovementJUMPSTART INCHOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION: $5,028,130 · Community ImprovementHOPE ENTERPRI…The Center for Strategic Economic Studies and Institutional Development: $2,259,733 · Community ImprovementThe Center fo…GRAMEEN AMERICA INC: $2,000,000 · Community ImprovementGRAMEEN AMERI…ACCELERATE 500 INC: $1,867,800 · Community ImprovementACCELERATE 50…LIFTFUND INC: $1,293,547 · Community Improvement+20 more: $2,774,675 · Community Improvement+20 moreINITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC: $14,871,442 · Housing & ShelterLOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND: $1,300,000 · Housing & Shelter+10 more: $1,450,000 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $1,445,646 · Human ServicesTORY BURCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,157,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $300,000 · Human ServicesOTR RESOURCES: $250,000 · Human ServicesBethesda Center for the Homesless Inc: $250,000 · Human ServicesTHE GROWING SEASON INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesPARADIGM FOR PARITY: $200,000 · Human ServicesCorner To Corner: $200,000 · Human ServicesIncreasing HOPE: $200,000 · Human ServicesTOPPS-TARGETING OUR PEOPLES PRIORITIES WITH SERVICE: $200,000 · Human ServicesBlackfem Inc: $200,000 · Human Services+10 more: $1,077,500 · Human ServicesColumbus State Community College Development Foundation Inc: $2,244,920 · PhilanthropyEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION: $500,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $500,000 · PhilanthropyTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyREFLECTION FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyBlackGirls Breathing Foundation Inc: $200,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $175,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $250,000 · PhilanthropyOPPORTUNITY FINANCE NETWORK: $596,600 · Public BenefitNational Coalition on Black Civic Partic: $500,000 · Public BenefitBGH FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Public BenefitCAPITAL IMPACT PARTNERS: $100,000 · Public BenefitCarolina Small Business Development Fund: $100,000 · Public Benefit
Other$137,689,657Education$59,011,199Community Improvement$31,193,952Housing & Shelter$17,621,442Human Services$5,730,146Philanthropy$4,869,920Public Benefit$1,446,600

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 budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $19,340,641 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetINITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC: $14,871,442 over 6y, 35% of budgetCOMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC: $8,700,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetJUMPSTART INC: $7,270,067 over 2y, 21% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $6,894,113 over 6y, 39% of budgetSalt Lake Community College Foundation: $5,806,145 over 6y, 23% of budgetDELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,230,897 over 6y, 48% of budgetHOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION: $5,028,130 over 3y, 10% of budgetDALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $4,825,732 over 6y, 16% of budgetTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,768,149 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $4,383,880 over 4y, 15% of budgetMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $3,000,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCINCINNATI STATE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,433,085 over 6y, 26% of budgetThe Center for Strategic Economic Studies and Institutional Development: $2,259,733 over 1y, 86% of budgetColumbus State Community College Development Foundation Inc: $2,244,920 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $2,024,048 over 6y, 12% of budgetGRAMEEN AMERICA INC: $2,000,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetACCELERATE 500 INC: $1,867,800 over 1y, 28% of budgetLONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,546,016 over 1y, 38% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $1,445,646 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND: $1,300,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLIFTFUND INC: $1,293,547 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTORY BURCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,157,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BUSINESS ASSISTANCE CORPORATION: $925,961 over 1y, 78% of budgetSINCLAIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $845,340 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetThe Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc: $750,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSAN DIEGO REGION SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $700,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetDMACC FOUNDATION: $665,950 over 1y, 15% of budgetOPPORTUNITY FINANCE NETWORK: $596,600 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $500,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Coalition on Black Civic Partic: $500,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC: $395,668 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $300,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDRIVE CHANGE INC: $250,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetREFLECTION FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetSOUTH DALLAS FAIR PARK INNERCITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $250,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetBRAVEN INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMK LEVEL PLAYING FIELD INSTITUTE: $250,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOTR RESOURCES: $250,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetBethesda Center for the Homesless Inc: $250,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE GROWING SEASON INC: $250,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetNEW LEADERS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 BABSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds INITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds JUMPSTART INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Salt Lake Community College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI STATE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Center for Strategic Economic Studies and Institutional Development ↗
  • Who funds Columbus State Community College Development Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAMEEN AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ACCELERATE 500 INC ↗
  • Who funds LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds LOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds LIFTFUND 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.

Opportunity Finance N…Capital One Foundatio…Wells Fargo FoundationAnnie E Casey Foundat…WK Kellogg FoundationCiti FoundationTd Charitable Foundat…Tr Ua Fifth Third Fou…Mufg Union Bank Found…Tides FoundationThe Kresge FoundationNational Association …
Opportunity Finance NetworkDC44.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Opportunity Finance Network · Capital One Foundation Inc · Wells Fargo Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Citi Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Tr Ua Fifth Third Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · Tides Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • The Harbor Bank of Maryland Community Development Corporation: 100% of income from government
  • Upton Planning Committee Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Garwyn Oaks Northwest Housing Resource Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
  • Jobs for the Future Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc: 10% of income from government
  • The Morgan State University Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Community Loan Fund of New Jersey Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
  • Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
  • CRAFT3: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 Goldman Sachs Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Goldman Sachs 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 169 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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