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The Goldwin Foundation % Lawrence Chatters at a glance

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The Goldwin Foundation % Lawrence Chatters

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$81k
Granted FY2019
5
Grants FY2019
2
States reached
$23k
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, FY2017 to 2019.

Education$631kHealth$242kHousing & Shelter$198kArts & Culture$105kReligion$80kHuman Services$79kYouth Development$78kPublic Safety & Disaster$26kOther$0
02FY2019 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $76k
$18,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$337k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKE-A-WISH GREATER LOS ANGELES$23,000
LOS ANGELES RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$20,000
LOS ANGELES MISSION$18,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD$15,000
MIDLAND UNIVERSITY$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%I'VE GOT A NAME: $3k → 13%LOVE ON 4 PAWS: $25k → 14%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
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$975k · 5 repeat orgs$487k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
11

Total granted

$975k
$482k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
+91%

Still filing today

40%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • U
    UCLA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $626k
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES MISSION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $101k · revenue -5%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $94k

Funded once

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $157k · revenue +91%
  • TH
    THE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +15%
  • UC
    UNITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIPgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $80k · revenue +31%
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
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
2
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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3
Union Rescue Mission

Union rescue mission embraces people with the compassion of christ. we assist people experiencing homelessness by providing a comprehensive array of emergency and long-term services to our guests, including: food, shelter, clothing,…

Human Services
4
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

—
5
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
6
Young Men's Christian Association

The burbank community ymca (burbank y) is committed to strengthening the foundation of our community through youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. we work within our community to ensure that everyone, regardless of…

Human Services
7
St Luke Community Hospital

The mission of st. luke community healthcare is to remain an integral component of the communities of the mission valley through the delivery of personal, compassionate, quality health care in a dignified manner that values our patients,…

Health
8
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
9
Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment
10
Midwives College of Utah

Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.

Education
11
Holy Cross Hospital Inc

We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.

Health
12
Loma Linda University Children's Hospital Foundation

Our children's hospital foundation is dedicated to supporting loma linda university children's hospital's mission to bring whole-child healthcare to the region and beyond.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Mission Inc; the most unlike its peers is Unity Christian Fellowship. 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

11 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. 11 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UCLA: $626,000 · OtherUCLALOS ANGELES RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $93,900 · OtherLOS ANGELES RONALD MCDONALD HOUSEMAKE-A-WISH GREATER LOS ANGELES: $76,575 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH GREATER LOS ANGELES+7 more: $85,520 · Other+7 moreChildren's Hospital Corporation: $156,664 · HealthChildren's Ho…MOMS ORANGE COUNTY: $15,000 · HealthMOMS ORANGE C…LOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $101,395 · Housing & ShelterTHE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA: $100,000 · Arts & CultureUNITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: $80,000 · ReligionBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD INC: $77,500 · Youth DevelopmentTREVOR PROJECT INC: $50,000 · Civil Rights
Other$881,995Health$171,664Housing & Shelter$101,395Arts & Culture$100,000Religion$80,000Youth Development$77,500Civil Rights$50,000

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 budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $156,664 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA: $100,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetUNITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: $80,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD INC: $77,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLove On 4 Paws Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMOMS ORANGE COUNTY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMIDLAND UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIVE GOT A NAME: $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Goldwin Foundation % Lawrence Chatters funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Goldwin Foundation % Lawrence Chatters. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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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Find your warmest path to The Goldwin Foundation % Lawrence Chatters 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 17 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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