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GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY GO INC

GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY GO INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $659,257 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ($538,130). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$191k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$659k
Net assets
$317k
8/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 85%
01What it does

What Golden Opportunity Go Inc does

Mission

Experienced educators provide individualized support in the form of free, one-on-one tutoring and mentorship to underprivileged students in the ithaca city school district -- promoting academic success, classroom confidence, and self-advocacy.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Free, one-on-one tutoring and mentorship to over 70 students from low-income families in 11 schools-- enhancing students' opportunities to thrive in school/life through academic success, classroom confidence, and self-advocacy

    $151,624 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $151,624.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($215k) Expenses 100 ($124k) Net assets 100 ($342k)2018 Revenue 70 ($151k) Expenses 136 ($169k) Net assets 94 ($321k)2019 Revenue 54 ($116k) Expenses 119 ($147k) Net assets 78 ($267k)2020 Revenue 60 ($130k) Expenses 100 ($124k) Net assets 80 ($272k)2021 Revenue 65 ($140k) Expenses 84 ($104k) Net assets 90 ($309k)2022 Revenue 74 ($160k) Expenses 98 ($122k) Net assets 102 ($347k)2023 Revenue 62 ($132k) Expenses 107 ($132k) Net assets 102 ($347k)2024 Revenue 41 ($89k) Expenses 115 ($143k) Net assets 86 ($294k)2025 Revenue 89 ($191k) Expenses 133 ($165k) Net assets 93 ($317k)
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Revenue (89)Expenses (133)Net assets (93)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $321k to $267k (−17%).

$342k
$321k
$267k
$283k
$320k
$348k
$347k
$294k
$317k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

96% of GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY GO INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$91k
’17
−$17k
’18
−$31k
’19
$6k
’20
$36k
’21
$38k
’22
−$20
’23
−$54k
’24
$26k
’25
33
months of
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.

Chief executive

Marne Honigbaum

Executive director

Board chair

Jodi Lee Denman

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $5k → $86k.

2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY GO INC’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

GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY GO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

87% 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 GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY GO INC.

82%
largest funder
90%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 91% · 2021 71% · 2022 73% · 2023 85% — diversifying over time.

“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

83% of GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY GO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 FY2023, 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

82% of GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY GO INC'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 $121k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from New York funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $538k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY GO INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY GO INC?
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY GO INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $659,257 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ($538,130). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY GO INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $659,257 in grants to GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY GO INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY GO INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $538,130 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY GO INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 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