Wisconsin · Nonprofit
GOLD IN SEPTEMBER CHARITABLE TRUST
GOLD IN SEPTEMBER CHARITABLE TRUST (Wisconsin) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $543,448 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($301,900). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2021
- $8k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $543k
- Net assets
- $0
What Gold in September Charitable Trust does
Mission
To grow awareness, inspire action, and fund research for childhood cancer.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Funding is used to support the advancement of clinical trial research and development for childhood cancers by growing awareness for the color gold (nationally recognized color) and september (official month) to support every child, everywhere. Distributions allocated for g9 centers of excellance hospitals (27 in total) and the children's oncology group include payment on a $500,000 pledge to support pediatric brain tumor research and the completion payment to support the full funding of $250,000 for the enrollment of 1,000 children on the nci-cog pediatric match clinical trial. The organization accomplished these goals by impacting people in all 50 states through youth and school programs, dedication of miles by athletes, increased web and social media exposure, as well as individual, corporate, and foundation gifts to grow awareness that inspires action. In july 2020, gold in september began a merger process with beat childhood cancer foundation. The merger was completed and gold in september fully liquidated december 31, 2021.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $943k to $0 (−100%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $56k → $100k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of GOLD IN SEPTEMBER CHARITABLE TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GOLD IN SEPTEMBER CHARITABLE TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GOLD IN SEPTEMBER CHARITABLE TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 31% · 2019 63% · 2020 74% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of GOLD IN SEPTEMBER CHARITABLE TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2022, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
71% of GOLD IN SEPTEMBER CHARITABLE TRUST's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $156k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $387k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like GOLD IN SEPTEMBER CHARITABLE TRUST
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GOLD IN SEPTEMBER CHARITABLE TRUST: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GOLD IN SEPTEMBER CHARITABLE TRUST?
- GOLD IN SEPTEMBER CHARITABLE TRUST (Wisconsin) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $543,448 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($301,900). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GOLD IN SEPTEMBER CHARITABLE TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $543,448 in grants to GOLD IN SEPTEMBER CHARITABLE TRUST, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOLD IN SEPTEMBER CHARITABLE TRUST?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $301,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOLD IN SEPTEMBER CHARITABLE TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2018–2021), and the filings of 14 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing