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The Irwin N Gold Family Foundation at a glance

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The Irwin N Gold Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$413k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$221k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$708kArts & Culture$158kPublic Safety & Disaster$91kReligion$87kHealth$83kCivil Rights$52kPhilanthropy$43kYouth Development$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $147k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $221k
$6,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUKE UNIVERSITY$220,500
WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE$37,270
LA POLICE FOUNDATION$20,000
JFEDLA$10,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACT$10,000
CURE BLINDNESS PROJECT$10,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$10,000
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$10,000
KIPP LA SCHOOLS$10,000
NO LIMITS FOR DEAF CHILDREN$10,000
ASPEN ART MUSEUM$10,000
CEDAR SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$10,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$6,000
STEP UP TUTORING$5,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $10k → 17%EQUAL JUSTICE INITATIVE: $5k → 18%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $228k → 11%ASPEN ART MUSEUM: $10k → 6%DELTA UPSILON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%CURE BLINDNESS PROJECT: $10k → 9%THANC FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $221k → 11%ASPEN ART MUSEUM: $9k → 6%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 11%ASPEN ART MUSEUM: $7k → 6%BRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $65k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 11%BRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $50k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 11%BRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $50k → 14%YOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $10k → 17%STEP UP TUTORING: $10k → 14%THE PAINTED TURTLE: $6k → 14%STEP UP TUTORING: $5k → 14%COMMON SENSE: $13k → 14%GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE: $8k → 14%GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE: $8k → 14%COMMON SENSE: $5k → 14%COMMON SENSE: $5k → 14%GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE: $5k → 14%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $10k → 14%WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE: $37k → 14%WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE: $9k → 14%WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE: $9k → 14%WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE: $9k → 14%WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE: $9k → 14%ST JOHN'S HELATH CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%ST JOHNS MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 14%ST JOHNS MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 14%CEDAR SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 14%NO LIMITS FOR DEAF CHILDREN: $18k → 14%JFEDLA: $10k → 14%NO LIMITS FOR DEAF CHILDREN: $16k → 14%NO LIMITS FOR DEAF CHILDREN: $11k → 14%NO LIMITS FOR DEAF CHILDREN: $10k → 14%KIPP LA SCHOOLS: $10k → 14%NO LIMITS FOR DEAF CHILDREN: $10k → 14%LA POLICE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%LA POLICE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%LA POLICE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%LA POLICE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%LA POLICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
NY
IN
PA
CA
CO
VA
NC
DC
HI
AL
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 21 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
15

Total granted

$1.1M
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+20%

Still filing today

67%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $486k · revenue +49%
  • BS
    BRENTWOOD SCHOOL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $166k · revenue +28%
  • NL
    NO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S HELATH CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +19%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
2
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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3
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
4
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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5
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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6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
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
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
12
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance College-Ready Public Schools Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mountain Rescue Aspen Inc. 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

32 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. 32 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
24/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DUKE UNIVERSITY: $485,500 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $166,000 · EducationBRENTWOOD SCHOOL+7 more: $61,500 · Education+7 moreLA POLICE FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherLA POLICE FOUNDATIONWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE: $73,210 · OtherWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLEEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACT: $25,000 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY A…THE LOS ANGELES COALITION: $20,000 · OtherTHE LOS ANGELES COALITIONST JOHNS MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 · OtherST JOHNS MEDICAL CENTER+15 more: $73,350 · Other+15 moreNO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC: $64,950 · Arts & CultureNO LIMITS THEA…ASPEN ART MUSEUM: $29,000 · Arts & CultureASPEN ART MUSE…GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $27,500 · Arts & CultureGEFFEN PLAYHOU…COMMON SENSE MEDIA: $22,500 · Arts & CultureCOMMON SENSE M…ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $11,250 · Arts & CultureARMAND HAMMER …+3 more: $4,000 · Arts & CulturePHASE ONE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $17,500 · HealthTHE THANC FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SOLA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $5,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Education$713,000Other$301,560Arts & Culture$159,200Health$50,500Philanthropy$21,000Youth Development$17,500Civil Rights$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $485,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $166,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC: $64,950 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetASPEN ART MUSEUM: $29,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $27,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON SENSE MEDIA: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPHASE ONE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEP UP TUTORING: $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE THANC FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $11,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDELTA UPSILON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOLA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Rescue Aspen Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMON SENSE MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds PHASE ONE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEP UP TUTORING ↗
  • Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH RENEWAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE THANC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DELTA UPSILON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE SOLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds HUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗

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.

Joseph Drown Foundati…California Community …The Karsh Family Foun…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
Joseph Drown FoundationCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Joseph Drown Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Karsh Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Irwin N Gold Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Irwin N Gold Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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.

    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 48 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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