· Private foundation
The Joseph B Gould Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Joseph B Gould Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Bank Of America Charitable Gift Fd, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Joseph B Gould Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $115k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $99k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT LEWIS COLLEGE MEN'S SOCCER | $26,500 |
| PASADENA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| RICHSTONE FAMILY CENTER | $12,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SONOMA COUNTY | $10,000 |
| REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| NAVAJO NATION | $10,000 |
| COMMITTEE OF THE SHELTERLESS | $10,000 |
| BEACH CITY HEALTH DISTRICT | $5,000 |
| JOHN GETZELMAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| PETALUMA VALLEY ROTARY TRUST | $5,000 |
| ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- USUSA Swimming Foundation Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $2.3M · revenue +56% · 43% of their budget
ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2019 · $16k · revenue +57%- GPGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVATORYone grant, 2018 · $10k
- SASOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTHone grant, 2019 · $5k
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTYone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -45%
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.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
Protection of animal rights
Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
The peninsula humane society & spca, guided by the humane ethic, builds healthy relationships between people and animals.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
The foundation supports the california city animal shelter and community companion animals. our dedicated goals of extended rescue and adoption lifelines, spay and neuter promotion. education awareness and quality of life improvements will…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Our mission is to provide homes, health, and happiness to oakland's animals in need. our primary focus has been to fund programs and activities at oakland animal services to greatly increase lifesaving of shelter animals.
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
At humane society silicon valley, our mission is to save lives, keep families together, and create a better future for pets and their people.(see schedule o for continuation)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Sonoma County and the most unlike its peers is Petaluma Valley Rotary Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 23 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 USA Swimming Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GREYHOUND ADOPTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SONOMA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PETALUMA VALLEY ROTARY TRUST ↗
- Who funds POLLY KLAAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION 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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Joseph B Gould 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.