· Private foundation
Todd Goodwin Charitable Trust
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND | $69,400 |
| MADISON SQUARE BOYS & GIRLS | $10,000 |
| SAINT JAMES INN | $7,000 |
| MELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $6,000 |
| THE SOUTHHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME | $5,000 |
| SAINT LUKES SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE DEBUTANT COTILION AND CHRISTMAS BALL | $5,000 |
| THE SPENCE SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| CONCORDIA CONSERVATORY | $3,000 |
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| THE JAMES C FERRER EDUCATION FUND | $2,500 |
| PHILLIPS EXETER ACCADEMY | $2,500 |
| ROCHESTER AREA COUMUNITY CENTER | $2,500 |
| LOST TREE CHARITABLE 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 (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 32% of Todd Goodwin Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 49% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 52% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 8 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- MSMadison Square Boys & Girls Club7× · 2019–2025 · $73k · revenue +60%
- TSTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +339%
- TSTHE SPENCE SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- UYURBAN YOUTH ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $10k
- SPSAINT PAUL THE APOSTLE SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $8k
- TSTUCK SCHOOL OF BUSINESSone grant, 2017 · $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.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Brunswick school, inc. is a day school for boys in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. the purpose of the school is to educate the "whole boy". it does so by helping boys and young men - without regard to culture, ethnicity or religion…
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
The cambridge school of weston's mission is to provide a progressive education that emphasizes deep learning and meaningful relationships. our dynamic program inspires students to discover who they are and what their contribution is to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Canaan Country School Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Rf Youth Boxing Inc. 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 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 130 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Madison Square Boys & Girls Club ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE DEBUTANTE COTILLION AND CHRISTMAS BALL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES C FERRER EDUCATIONAL FUNDINC (FORMERLY SHINNECOCK HILLS EDUCATIONAL ) ↗
- Who funds GRAHAM WINDHAM ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds SOUTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BONE MARROW & CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES INN ↗
- Who funds SHADY HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BEACON ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DARIEN ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON 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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Community Fund of Bronxville Eastchester Tuckahoe Inc · Clermont Foundation · First Eagle Investments Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Ibm International Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund
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 Todd Goodwin Charitable Trust 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.
- Rf Youth Boxing Inc — 38% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Beacon Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% 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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