· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| UMMC CHILDRENS OF MS | $20,000 |
| MARION MILITARY INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| UMMC FOUNDATION-PIERCE ENDOWMENT | $12,500 |
| MICAH'S MISSION SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MS | $10,000 |
| OCD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CROHNS AND COLITIS | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| CLUSTERBUSTERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MARINA FLAMINGO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| OUR LITTLE ROSES MINISTRIES | $3,500 |
| NATIONAL WATERWAYS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -18% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- MFMARINA FLAMINGO FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +390%
Funded once
- MSMS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $125k
- UFUMMC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $20k
- TBTHE BERDON & ROLANETTE LAWRENCE DISEASEone grant, 2019 · $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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Steve and Melody Golding Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Steve and Melody Golding Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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