· Private foundation
The Gould Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY GREEN FARMS | $50,000 |
| HARVARD STREET NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER | $40,840 |
| THE TABLE LEAF FOUNDATION | $33,950 |
| RECONCILLIATION SERVICES | $21,000 |
| FRIENDSHIPSWORKS | $16,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS | $15,000 |
| BETHEL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| REPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| STRAWBERRY WEEK SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| STRONG WOMEN STRONG GIRLS | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $161k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 67% 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.
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.
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 Gould Charitable Foundation’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, 37% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 31% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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 +119% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $177k 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
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS3× · 2020–2024 · $78k · revenue +119%
- SESelf Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc2× · 2020–2023 · $68k · revenue +24%
- REREPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $55k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- BOBOSTON OUTDOOR PRESCHOOL NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +50%
- TVTHE VOTER NETWORK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k
- MPMADAM PRESIDENT CAMP INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +82% · 55% of their budget
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.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Nurture kc is a community collaboration dedicated to reducting infant mortality and improving family health. we work together to change policy for broad impact, transform systems to improve health outcomes at a local level, and provide…
Ppmw provides high-quality, compassionate healthcare, including reproductive care; promote sexual health; and advocate for reproductive rights and health equity for all.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
Opportunities, inc. of jefferson county provides services for individuals for the purpose of maximizing their success and enhancing their abilities to be independent, contributing members of the community.
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reproductive Equity Now Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Connecting for Good. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 32 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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS ↗
- Who funds Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON OUTDOOR PRESCHOOL NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER NETWORK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY GREEN FARMS ↗
- Who funds HARVARD STREET NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MADAM PRESIDENT CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds ADOPTION & BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds RECONCILIATION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AcruxKC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds APPRENTICE LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid of Western Missouri ↗
- Who funds GORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds BETHEL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds CHARLIES HOUSE 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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Baum Family Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Ina Calkins Trust · The Curry Family Foundation
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 Gould Charitable Foundation 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.
- Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
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.
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