How much did THE KATHRYN GOODMAN FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of THE KATHRYN GOODMAN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

veterinary

2019

veterinary

2020

cancer research

2021

librarymuseumpreservationcancer

2022

museummusicalpreservation

2023

museumpreservation

2024

preservation

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k13 grants · $61k
$10k–50k14 grants · $296k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

MUSICALLY FED$50,000
MVY REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL$41,518
VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST$30,000
BACH CENTER$30,000
NAVIGATOR$30,000
HARBOR HOMES$30,000
CHILD JUSTICE INC$30,000
MV COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
MV MINNIE SINGERS$15,000
FRIENDS OF MVY RADIO$13,477
FRIENDS OF MVY RADIO$10,877
VINEYARD HOUSE INC$10,001
HOSPICE OF MARTHAS VINEYARD$10,000
FEATHERSTONE CTR$10,000
MVY CENTER FOR LIVING$10,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 43% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.9M · 32 repeat orgs$276k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.9M

$223k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%

+396%

Still filing today

41%

13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterAnimalsArts & CultureOther

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

CJ
CHILD JUSTICE INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +442%
VH
VINEYARD HOUSE INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +57%
HO
HOSPICE OF MARTHAS VINEYARD
8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +303%

Funded once

PE
PERMANENT ENDOWMENT FUND OF MV
one grant, 2020 · $70k
S
SWEETWATER
one grant, 2022 · $49k
LS
LESLIE S T FANG FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $20k

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.

Island Health Inc

Island Health Care's mission is to ensure all islanders, regardless of income or insurance status, have access to high-quality health care. Island Health Care Provides community-based health safety net services and programs to provide…

Health

Island Food Pantry of Martha's

The island food pantry of martha's vineyard, inc.'s mission is to improve and sustain the quality of life in dukes county, massachusetts through the operation of a food pantry to provide temporary food and personal items as needed to…

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Island Affordable Housing Fund Inc

To promote affordable housing on the island of Martha's Vineyard and other charitable and educational purposes in such a manner that the Corporation will qualify as an exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue…

Housing & Shelter

Martha's Vineyard Donors Collaborative Inc

Expand philanthropy on Marthas Vineyard and support its nonprofit organizations through capacity building and advocacy.

Philanthropy

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

Creation and operation of world class contemporary art museum and securing related funding.

Education

Island Elderly Housing Inc

Provide affordable housing for the elderly and disabled

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Dog Orphans Inc

Provide housing for stray, homeless, and unwanted dogs until suitable permanent homes are found

Animals

Nantucket Safe Harbor for Animals Inc

The mission of nantucket safe harbor for animals, nisha, is to provide shelter and care for animals in need and to promote welfare through humane education, outreach and advocacy.

Animals

Marthas Vineyard Beachgoers Access Group Inc

Mission to advocate for continued broad and affordable public beach access for residents and visitors of Marthas Vineyard alike while being mindful of the environmental conservation and preservation that makes these places special History…

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Quincy Animal Shelter Inc

Quincy animal shelter, a volunteer run organization with 1 paid employee, is a no-kill animal shelter dedicated to finding the right home for every animal in its care. all animals are ethically and humanely treated.

Animals

The Boston Home Inc

To improve the lives of adults with advanced multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorders.

Health

Island Autism Group Inc

To strive for the lifelong independence, confidence, and happiness of autistic individuals and their families on martha's vineyard, through housing, life skills, enrichment, job training and therapies.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Martha's Vineyard Inc and the most unlike its peers is Animal Rescue League of Boston. 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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/21

the rest of the field

13%

3,241/25,910

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

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

18/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,352,858Food & Nutrition$310,500Crime & Legal$210,000Human Services$105,000Health$75,001Animals$59,000Housing & Shelter$50,000

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.

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.

Martha's Vineyard Bank CharitableMA18.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable · Tower Family Fund Inc · The Kohlberg Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation · Cape and Islands United Way Inc · Justin & Genevieve Wyner Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organisation THE KATHRYN GOODMAN 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MUSICALLY FED.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~21 months of operating runway; revenue held over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 833226653 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MUSICALLY FED, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 21 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 25% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Kathryn Goodman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Kathryn Goodman Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE KATHRYN GOODMAN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Kathryn Goodman Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE KATHRYN GOODMAN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Kathryn Goodman Foundation?

More from the funding graph