California · Nonprofit
THE GOODEN CENTER
THE GOODEN CENTER (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,198,965 to it, the largest being THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION ($252,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.3M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What The Gooden Center does
Mission
The Mission of The Gooden Center is to provide effective care, ongoing support, and family inclusive opportunities that insure lifelong health for its clients challenged by mental health illness and substance use disorders.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Organization maintains homes and provides therapeutic residential and outpatient therapy, counseling, support services and rehabilitation to men and women suffering from mental health disorders and adult males suffering from substance use disorders. Additionally, the organization operates transitional living and sober living facilities.
$6,939,634 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,939,634.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.5M to $5.8M (+30%).
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: 2020 11% · 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of THE GOODEN CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
David Hewlett
CEO
Board chair
Jeffrey A Farnum
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $11k → $239k.
7 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 THE GOODEN CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 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
THE GOODEN CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 58% · 2019 37% · 2020 44% · 2021 38% · 2022 24% · 2023 31% — 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
43% of THE GOODEN CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
94% of THE GOODEN CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $196k 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.
Against its field
THE GOODEN CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE GOODEN CENTER
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 THE GOODEN CENTER: 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 THE GOODEN CENTER?
- THE GOODEN CENTER (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,198,965 to it, the largest being THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION ($252,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GOODEN CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,198,965 in grants to THE GOODEN CENTER, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GOODEN CENTER?
- THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $252,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GOODEN CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 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