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California · Public charity

The Good Beginning

To streamline the giving process by providing a singular platform for married couples to donate the wedding registry to various charities

$50k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
6
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$7,743
Largest grant, FY2023
$15,735
States reached, FY2023
6
Total assets, FY2023
$105k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Project Home$15,73510%
American Cancer Society Inc$7,96110%
Peace 4 Kids$7,74311%
Odyssey House Inc$7,12910%
Ptsd Foundation of America$5,97010%
Year Up Inc$5,76210%

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About The Good Beginning

How much does The Good Beginning give?
The Good Beginning reported 6 grants totaling $50,300 in its FY2023 IRS filing.
What does The Good Beginning fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (42%), Housing & Shelter (31%), Human Services (15%).
Who are The Good Beginning's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2023: Project Home ($16k), American Cancer Society Inc ($8k), Peace 4 Kids ($8k).
Where is The Good Beginning based?
The Good Beginning is based in CA.

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 6 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. 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 $9k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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