Washington · Nonprofit
GREATER GOOD CHARITIES
GREATER GOOD CHARITIES (Washington) receives grants from 187 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,927,950 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($2,824,907). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $173M
- Funders on record
- 187
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Greater Good Charities does
Mission
Greater Good Charities works to help people, animals and the environment by mobilizing in response to need and amplifying the good. Greater Good Charities leverages donor generosity and the resulting impacts of its wide-ranging program successes by strategically developing the synergies created by the multiple intersections of these activities. The outcomes achieved through this unique approach amplify the good.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Animals:$134,933,555 was granted to animal welfare organizations for items like food, vaccinations, shelter renovations, enrichment, spay/neuter, education and training, and disaster preparedness and response. Greater Good Charities' goods program is the logistics services component, responsible for securing, transporting, storing and distributing in-kind donations to approved animal welfare non-profit recipients. The program conforms to our internal guidelines for evaluating and responding to grant applications, delivering products such as animal food, vaccines, litter and other supplies instead of financial grants.
$145,144,612 spentof which $134,953,090 as grants$2,994,523 earned by the program95% of program spendingPeople:$1,266,488 was granted to charities addressing hunger, poverty, health and education in the u.s. And internationally. Funds supported programs to provide basic health services, distribute nutritious dense food boxes, and basic survival supplies in areas affected by disasters.
$5,946,655 spentof which $1,266,488 as grants4% of program spendingEnvironment:$299,596 was granted to non-profit partners who work to protect endangered animal species, plant trees in deforested areas to offset carbon emissions and study habitat for conservation and restoration purposes.
$1,693,952 spentof which $299,596 as grants1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $152,785,219.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $16M to $24M (+53%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of GREATER GOOD CHARITIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Jam Stewart
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 58 funders, grant income rose $112k → $2.5M.
26 of 187 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 GREATER GOOD CHARITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 187 funders by total. 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
GREATER GOOD CHARITIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
63% 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 GREATER GOOD CHARITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 27% · 2019 22% · 2020 51% · 2021 22% · 2022 18% · 2023 20% — 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
38% of GREATER GOOD CHARITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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 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
GREATER GOOD CHARITIES draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 35 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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.
Against its field
GREATER GOOD CHARITIES has grown faster than half of the 71 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 71 philanthropy nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like GREATER GOOD CHARITIES
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 33 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Fundacja Greater Good Charities Europe · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER GOOD CHARITIES: 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 GREATER GOOD CHARITIES?
- GREATER GOOD CHARITIES (Washington) receives grants from 187 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,927,950 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($2,824,907). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER GOOD CHARITIES have?
- IRS filings report 187 organizations giving $15,927,950 in grants to GREATER GOOD CHARITIES, 78 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER GOOD CHARITIES?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,824,907 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER GOOD CHARITIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 187 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing