· Private foundation
The Good Works Institute Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLOBAL UPLIFT PROJECT | $91,140 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF FULLERTON | $30,000 |
| TIBETAN CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FOUNDA | $24,000 |
| OMENA | $20,000 |
| STOVE TEAM INT'L | $20,000 |
| EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN | $16,235 |
| MALI HEALTH ORGANIZING PROJECT | $15,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS FUND | $15,000 |
| SUNSAR MAYA | $10,000 |
| KIWIMBI INT'L | $10,000 |
| LIFE'S KITCHEN | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $357k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +114% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TGThe Global Uplift Project5× · 2017–2023 · $176k · revenue +322%
- FFFLOURISH FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $125k · revenue +151%
- HHHealing Hands of Joy5× · 2017–2021 · $103k · revenue +253%
Funded once
- GSGOODING SCHOOL DISTRICT 231one grant, 2017 · $44k
- IINSTOVEone grant, 2017 · $35k
- TCTIBETAN CHILDREN'S EDUC FUNDone grant, 2017 · $35k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Educate Girls promotes and protects the right of girls to a quality education and works by supporting partners in geographies where the need is greatest to mobilize communities, enroll girls into school and improve learning outcomes. Our…
The Alta Project is dedicated to addressing the fundamental challenges faced by the Turkana and Maasai tribes, including access to clean water, providing access to feminine hygiene products, nutritious meals, and investing in banking…
The mission of Splash International and its subsidiaries is to ensure clean water for children. Splash partners with governments and local organizations to deliver sustainable water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health programs in…
Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…
Promote health and wellness globally for women and kids
Empowering Lives International (ELI) ignites world changers. We equip families and orphans to crush poverty, embrace Christ, and share their transformation with others through their God-honoring income, their deepening relationship with…
Our mission is to bridge the world of business and the world of people in extreme poverty, and to support vulnerable communities with health, education and other essential services
Shadhika believes in a future where each person in India can choose their own path to meaning, purpose, and happiness. Through global philanthropy and in-country programming, Shadhika believes that education is the most effective vehicle…
A is for Africa is an educational foundation focusing education and health among the Maasai people of Tanzania East Africa. Our primary work involves providing educational support to the local government schools in the way of a school…
Together women rise champions gender equality because womens rights are human rights. when women and girls are treated equally, the world is healthier, safer, more peaceful, inclusive, and economically just for everyone.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flying Kites Inc and the most unlike its peers is SK2 Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 59 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The Global Uplift Project ↗
- Who funds FLOURISH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MALI RISING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Healing Hands of Joy ↗
- Who funds SUNSAR MAYA INC ↗
- Who funds MALI HEALTH ORGANIZING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STOVETEAM INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Iraqi Children Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GREEN EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds FLYING KITES INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF FULLERTON ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION BEYOND BORDERS ↗
- Who funds Tibetan Children's Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOPE ABIDES ↗
- Who funds KIWIMBI INTERNATIONALA NEW JERSEY NON PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SK2 Fund ↗
- Who funds LIFES KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds East African Children's Fund ↗
- Who funds Omena Inc ↗
- Who funds JULIETTE'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds IMBODEN AREA CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Together Women Rise · Sangham Foundation · Kathryn B McQuade Foundation · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Good Works Institute Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.