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The Gould Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Gould Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$197k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$378kHuman Services$163kYouth Development$98kEducation$80kFood & Nutrition$57kPublic Benefit$50kCrime & Legal$32kCommunity Improvement$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $127k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$16,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
STRAWBERRY WEEK SOCIETY$5,000
REPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW FOUNDATION$5,000
STRONG WOMEN STRONG GIRLS$5,000
BETHEL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$5,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ADOPTION AND BEYOND: $28k → 5%STRONG WOMEN STRONG GIRLS: $5k → 16%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE: $35k → 16%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE: $33k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 5%RECONCILLIATION SERVICES: $21k → 15%HEALING HOUSE: $15k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of The Gould Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 37% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 31%.

The Gould Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$304k · 6 repeat orgs$578k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +119% since the first grant, against +50% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
18

Total granted

$304k
$401k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+119%
+50%

Still filing today

67%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $177k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCivil RightsEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS
    3× · 2020–2024 · $78k · revenue +119%
  • SE
    Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc
    2× · 2020–2023 · $68k · revenue +24%
  • RE
    REPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $55k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • BO
    BOSTON OUTDOOR PRESCHOOL NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +50%
  • TV
    THE VOTER NETWORK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • TC
    THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +18%
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.

1
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
2
Nurture Kc

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…

Health
3
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington Dc Inc

Ppmw provides high-quality, compassionate healthcare, including reproductive care; promote sexual health; and advocate for reproductive rights and health equity for all.

Health
4
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

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5
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
6
Opportunities Inc of Jefferson County

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.

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7
Jewish Vocational Service Inc

To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.

Employment
8
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
9
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
10
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

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.

Housing & Shelter
11
Neighborhealth Corporation

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,…

Health
12
Alternatives Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reproductive Equity Now Foundation Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
18/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS: $78,285 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT…HARVARD STREET NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC: $40,840 · HealthHARVARD STREET NEIGHBORH…THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $40,000 · HealthTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR T…TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $17,995 · HealthTRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CH…AcruxKC: $17,340 · HealthAcruxKCSAMUEL U RODGERS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $71,220 · OtherSAMUEL U RODGERS COMMUNITY …TABLE LEAF FOUNDATION: $33,950 · OtherTABLE LEAF FOUNDATIONKANSAS CITY FREE HEALTH CLINIC: $25,000 · OtherKANSAS CITY FREE HEALTH CLI…CONNECTING FOR GOOD: $15,000 · OtherCONNECTING FOR GOODTHE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM: $11,750 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HE…LOVELANE SPECIAL NEEDS HORSEBACK: $10,300 · OtherFRIENDSHIPWORKS INC: $16,500 · OtherFRIENDSHIPWORKS INCLegal Aid of Western Missouri: $10,581 · Other+4 more: $21,515 · Other+4 moreSelf Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc: $67,500 · Human ServicesSelf Esteem Boston E…ADOPTION & BEYOND INC: $27,989 · Human ServicesADOPTION & BEYOND IN…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVIC…RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $21,000 · Human ServicesRECONCILIATION SERVI…HEALING HOUSE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesHEALING HOUSE INC+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesREPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · Civil RightsREPRODUCTIVE EQU…THE VOTER NETWORK FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER NETWOR…JACKSON COUNTY CASA: $21,430 · Civil RightsJACKSON COUNTY C…BOSTON OUTDOOR PRESCHOOL NETWORK: $50,000 · EducationBOSTON OUT…SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC: $20,000 · EducationSCIENCE FR…GORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationGORDON PAR…MADAM PRESIDENT CAMP INC: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentAPPRENTICE LEARNING INC: $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY GREEN FARMS: $50,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$194,460Other$215,816Human Services$161,489Civil Rights$126,430Education$80,000Youth Development$54,000Food & Nutrition$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS: $78,285 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSelf Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc: $67,500 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY GREEN FARMS: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBOSTON OUTDOOR PRESCHOOL NETWORK: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHARVARD STREET NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC: $40,840 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMADAM PRESIDENT CAMP INC: $40,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetADOPTION & BEYOND INC: $27,989 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY CASA: $21,430 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRECONCILIATION SERVICES: $21,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $17,995 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAcruxKC: $17,340 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDSHIPWORKS INC: $16,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCONNECTING FOR GOOD: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHEALING HOUSE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAPPRENTICE LEARNING INC: $14,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLegal Aid of Western Missouri: $10,581 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC: $6,515 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGIRLS INC OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHARLIES HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
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.

Greater Kansas City C…Health Forward Founda…United Way of Greater…Oppenstein Brothers F…Boston Foundation IncThe Baum Family Found…Menorah Heritage Foun…The H & R Block Found…Liberty Mutual Founda…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Ina Calkins TrustThe Curry Family Foun…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO26.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gould Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gould Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Gould Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Gould Charitable Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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