· Private foundation
The Sheila Dave & Sherry Gold Foundation CO Jeff Gold
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k106 grants · $421k
- $10k–50k79 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NutritionFactsorg | $200,000 |
| PUBLIC CITIZEN | $150,000 |
| Internet Archive | $135,000 |
| CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION | $112,950 |
| CSUN | $101,535 |
| UCLA Foundation | $88,500 |
| American College of Lifestyle Medicine | $75,000 |
| THE POSSE FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| The Physicians Committee for Responsible | $70,000 |
| Kurdish Peace Institute | $60,000 |
| JEWISH WORLD WATCH | $60,000 |
| Moving Medicine Forward | $60,000 |
| Youth Champions | $60,000 |
| RepresentUs Education Fund | $50,000 |
| Our Children's Trust | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
252 repeat relationships — 176 still active in FY2024, 76 since wound down; 20 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k 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
- PCPUBLIC CITIZEN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +35%
- CSCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +14%
- NINutritionfactsorg Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $714k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $161k · revenue -35%
- WUWINTHROP UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $125k
POMONA COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +90%
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.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
The first amendment coalition protects and promotes a free press, freedom of expression and the people's right to know. continued on schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Kumpi Mayu Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
228 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. 228 of the 318 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PUBLIC CITIZEN INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nutritionfactsorg Inc ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH WORLD WATCH ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST ↗
- Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CAMPS ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds WATER BUFFALO CLUB INC DBA WE BENEFIT CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds Internet Archive ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds KURDISH PEACE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES WATERKEEPER ↗
- Who funds RepresentUs Education Fund ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
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: California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The California Endowment · The Rose Hills Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · United Way 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 organization The Sheila Dave & Sherry Gold Foundation CO Jeff Gold 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.
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- World Ocean School Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% 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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