How much does The Good Works Institute Inc give?

The Good Works Institute Inc reported 11 grants totaling $258,875 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Good Works Institute Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are International (34%), Human Services (17%), Environment (10%).

Who are The Good Works Institute Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: The Global Uplift Project ($176k), Flourish Foundation Inc ($125k), Mali Rising Foundation ($109k).

Does The Good Works Institute Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Good Works Institute Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Good Works Institute Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Together Women Rise, Sangham Foundation, Kathryn B McQuade Foundation.

Where is The Good Works Institute Inc based?

The Good Works Institute Inc is based in ID.

The Good Works Institute Inc

The Good Works Institute Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Good Works Institute Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$259k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$91k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

International$767kHuman Services$369kEnvironment$228kPhilanthropy$227kEducation$205kHealth$131kCommunity Improvement$82kFood & Nutrition$67kOther$0

02FY2023 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k9 grants · $160k
$50k–250k1 grant · $91k

$16,235

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GLOBAL UPLIFT PROJECT	$91,140
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF FULLERTON	$30,000
TIBETAN CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FOUNDA	$24,000
STOVE TEAM INT'L	$20,000
OMENA	$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

02The need

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 (FY17–23, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.7M · 29 repeat orgs$486k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +117% since the first grant, against +48% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.7M

$466k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+117%

+48%

Still filing today

72%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthEnvironmentOther

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

TG
The Global Uplift Project
5× · 2017–2023 · $176k · revenue +322%
FF
FLOURISH FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $125k · revenue +213%
HH
Healing Hands of Joy
5× · 2017–2021 · $103k · revenue +253%

Funded once

GS
GOODING SCHOOL DISTRICT 231
one grant, 2017 · $44k
I
INSTOVE
one grant, 2017 · $35k
TC
TIBETAN CHILDREN'S EDUC FUND
one grant, 2017 · $35k

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.

Educate Girls

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…

International

The Alta Project

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…

International

Splash International

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…

Environment

Zoe Empowers

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…

International

Project Kilimanjaro

Promote health and wellness globally for women and kids

Health

Building Schools in Africa

Education

Empowering Lives International

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…

Religion

Adara Development (Usa)

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

International

Shadhika Project

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…

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International Humanity Foundation

Philanthropy

A Is for Africa Ltd

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…

International

Together Women Rise

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.

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flying Kites Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/36

Grantees still filing

27/36

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$738,376International$536,586Human Services$416,500Philanthropy$182,840Education$161,500Environment$91,575Community Improvement$81,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Together Women RiseSC15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Good Works Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Good Works Institute Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home