Colorado · Private foundation
The Good Works Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $434k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2024
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 50
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations The Good Works Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 34 | $434k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $483k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $407k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $498k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $471k | 34% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $760k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $1.2M | 31% |
| FY2017 | 50 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ica La | $1,433,200 | 8 | 25% |
| Art Matters Inc | $1,120,000 | 4 | 92% |
| Sarah Lawrence College | $870,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc | $281,700 | 7 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Philharmonic Association | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $59,200 | 6 | 0% |
| The Builders Association Inc | $45,000 | 5 | 17% |
| Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Music Associates of Aspen Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $37,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 67 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($795k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Good Works Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · California Community Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Pasadena Art Alliance · The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts · Audrey & Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation · The Wilhelm Family Foundation Co Cascade Wilhelm · Perenchio Foundation · Robert Rauschenberg Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Liberty Hill Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Good Works Foundation
- How much does The Good Works Foundation give?
- The Good Works Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $433,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 50 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Good Works Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (68%), Education (19%), Civil Rights (3%).
- Who are The Good Works Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ica La ($1.4M), Art Matters Inc ($1.1M), Sarah Lawrence College ($870k).
- Does The Good Works Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Good Works Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Good Works Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, California Community Foundation, The J Paul Getty Trust.
- Where is The Good Works Foundation based?
- The Good Works Foundation is based in CO.
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