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The Goodnow Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
111
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$1.5MInternational$830kEducation$758kHuman Services$747kEnvironment$462kAnimals$329kArts & Culture$220kPhilanthropy$200kOther$0
02FY2024 · 111 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k67 grants · $202k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $754k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$5,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION$500,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN$100,000
FAMILY CENTERS$50,000
AMERICARES$45,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY$35,000
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN EAST DAKOTA$30,000
FAMILY CENTERS$30,000
SPIRIT OF AMERICA$30,000
AMERICARES FREE CLINICS$30,000
FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY$30,000
GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND$30,000
EISENHOWER FOUNDATION$25,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$25,000
THE FRESH AIR FUND$25,000
NUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE$25,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $518k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS AND GIRLS VILLAGE: $15k → 12%BOYS AND GIRLS VILLAGE: $10k → 12%BOYS AND GIRLS VILLAGE: $10k → 12%BOYS AND GIRLS VILLAGE: $10k → 12%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $30k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $30k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $30k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $30k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $30k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $20k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION: $13k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $10k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $10k → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $3k → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $3k → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $3k → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $3k → 9%LIVEGIRL: $8k → 9%LIVEGIRL: $5k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $25k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $25k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $25k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $20k → 9%HOMEFRONT: $10k → 9%HOMEFRONT: $5k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $3k → 9%HOMEFRONT: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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CA
UT
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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of The Goodnow Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 58% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 55% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Goodnow Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.9% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.4M · 122 repeat orgs$308k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

122 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

122
28

Total granted

$5.4M
$269k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+11%

Still filing today

71%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationAnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $400k · revenue +1%
  • FC
    FAMILY CENTERS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $378k · revenue +67%
  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Society
    4× · 2021–2024 · $130k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • NT
    NUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • NB
    NEW BEGINNINGS COMMUNITY CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2021 · $36k
  • CC
    CATALYST CT INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +14%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
5
The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment
6
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
7
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
8
New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc

The mission of the new canaan land trust is to foster a connection between the new canaan community and its natural resources through the conservation and sustainable stewardship of our open space.

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9
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
10
Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc

Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…

Environment
11
Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association Inc

The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…

Arts & Culture
12
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Norwalk Acts Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Stepping Stones Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySchool District FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Women & Girls Leadership De…Cancer Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Pregnancy Support ServicesAffordable Housing Construc…Youth Development CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Local History MuseumsChristian Youth CampsElementary Literacy TutoringVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Public Library OperationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterLocal Food System Organizat…Environmental Conservation …Affordable Housing Developm…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%1%<5yr12%5%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr20%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%1%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr18%46%20–35yr14%11%35–55yr20%37%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/108
the rest of the field
10%
2,154/22,337

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.

05the grantee network

102 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. 102 of the 160 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/102
Grantees still filing
67/102
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FAMILY CENTERS INC — $377,500 · OtherFAMILY CENTERS INCCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN EAST DAKOTA — $117,500 · OtherNCC FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $100,000 · OtherPERSON TO PERSON INC — $90,000 · OtherAMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC — $85,000 · OtherFRESH AIR FUND — $100,000 · Other+100 more — $1,470,250 · Other+100 moreALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $1,117,811 · Social ScienceALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCO…Save The Children Federation Inc — $400,000 · InternationalSave The Childr…NUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC — $100,000 · InternationalNUCLEAR THREAT …MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $80,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS F…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUN…OXFAM-AMERICA INC — $60,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA I…Spirit of America Worldwide — $60,000 · InternationalSpirit of Ameri…+1 more — $10,000 · InternationalFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC — $160,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CH…GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYE…BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP — $97,500 · Human ServicesBUILDING ON…THE CARVER INC — $63,500 · Human ServicesTHE CARVER …BOYS AND GIRLS VILLAGE INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GI…THE SEEING EYE INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING …+4 more — $51,500 · Human Services+4 moreWildlife Conservation Society — $130,000 · AnimalsCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY — $37,500 · AnimalsGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD — $35,000 · AnimalsAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc — $20,000 · AnimalsLIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC — $20,000 · AnimalsFARM SANCTUARY INC — $20,000 · AnimalsLIFESAVERS INC — $15,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC — $15,000 · Animals+3 more — $20,000 · AnimalsWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC — $70,000 · EducationMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $60,000 · EducationDARIEN LIBRARY INC — $40,000 · EducationLET'S GET READY INC — $25,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationHorizons at CT State Norwalk Inc — $14,000 · EducationENGLISH LEARNER SUPPORT SERVICES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $12,500 · EducationALL OUR KIN INC — $10,000 · Education+7 more — $44,400 · EducationENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $125,000 · EnvironmentTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION — $50,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION — $10,000 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE FOREVER — $8,000 · Environment+4 more — $20,000 · Environment
Other$2,440,250Social Science$1,117,811International$775,000Human Services$557,500Animals$312,500Education$295,900Environment$238,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $1,117,811 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY CENTERS INC — $377,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC — $160,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $130,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC — $100,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP — $97,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC — $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC — $85,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARVER INC — $63,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELM PROJECT — $60,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSpirit of America Worldwide — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation — $56,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS VILLAGE INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDARIEN LIBRARY INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY — $37,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD — $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFUTURE 5 INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLET'S GET READY INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCATALYST CT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUMMER CAMP INC — $18,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC — $17,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetChild Advocates of Connecticut Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetStamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Fairfield County's Co…The Near and Far Asso…New Canaan Community …The Herbert & Nell Si…William Caspar Graust…Stamford Rotary Trust…Viking Global Foundat…The Meredith and Whit…The Scripps Family Fu…The Pitney Bowes Foun…Peoples United Commun…The Darien Foundation…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT65.3× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · Viking Global Foundation Inc · The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Darien Foundation Inc

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 Goodnow Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Laurel House Inc — 68% of income from government
  • East Norwalk Blue Inc — 60% of income from government
  • Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Family & Children's Agency Inc — 47% of income from government
  • Catalyst Ct Inc — 37% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Village Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Stamford Public Education Foundation Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
  • The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Housing Development Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
  • United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc — 11% of income from government
  • The Community Fund of Darien — 9% of income from government
  • Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Flying Cloud Institute Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Norwalk Acts Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Fairview Hospital — 3% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Women's Mentoring Network Inc — 1% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Norwalk Art Space Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Darien Nature Center Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Goodnow Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Goodnow Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 160 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines