· Private foundation
The Steve and Melody Golding Foundation
Its FY2025 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
- $250k+1 grant · $440k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VICKSBURG CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $440,000 |
| BAPTIST HOSPITALHEALTH FOUNDATION (MOBILE HEART LABCARDIOLOGY DEPT) | $125,000 |
| MARION MILITARY INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| UMMC CHILDRENS OF MS | $20,000 |
| UMMC FOUNDATION-PIERCE ENDOWMENT | $12,500 |
| MICAH'S MISSION SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| CLUSTERBUSTERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MARINA FLAMINGO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| OCD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| OUR LITTLE ROSES MINISTRIES | $3,500 |
| NATIONAL WATERWAYS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +14% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +43%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI CHARTERED7× · 2019–2025 · $31k · revenue +120%
- LLLIVING LANDS & WATERS6× · 2019–2024 · $14k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- MSMS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $125k
- UFUMMC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $20k
- TBTHE BERDON & ROLANETTE LAWRENCE DISEASEone grant, 2019 · $5k
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 jacksonville humane society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals.
We are a grassroots organization focused on the critical environmental issues of sw florida. we accomplish this through a myriad of efforts by the teams in our programmatic departments: science, policy, education and wildlife…
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
The texas state aquarium's mission is engaging people with animals, inspiring appreciation for our seas, and supporting wildlife conservation. its vision is to be a global leader in fostering support for the conservation of the gulf of…
The american wild horse campaign is the nation's leading conservation organization dedicated to preserving the freedom and habitat of wild horses and burros. through its initiatives in advocacy, conservation, land preservation, and legal…
Associated humane societies, (ahs), is the largest animal sheltering organization in new jersey and is also home to popcorn park, located at our ahs-lacey branch. popcorn park was established in 1977 and is a sanctuary for abused,…
The society's mission is to ensure responsible treatment of animals, to decrease the number of abused and unwanted animals, and to conduct community programs which promote quality animal care
The clinic for the rehabilitation of wildlife is a teaching hospital and visitor center dedicated to the saving of wildlife through state-of-the-art veterinary care, research, education, and conservation medicine.
Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f
Prevention of animal cruelty.
The mission of the spartanburg humane society is to provide quality care to lost and unwanted pets while raising community awareness about issues affecting companion animals.
Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Mississippi Chartered and the most unlike its peers is Vicksburg Foundation for Historic Preservation. 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 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 73 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 American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI CHARTERED ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WATERWAYS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARINA FLAMINGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVING LANDS & WATERS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Rodney History and Preservation Society ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds VICKSBURG-WARREN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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 Love Tank Foundation · Ergon Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Steve and Melody Golding 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.