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The Gouche Foundation

The Gouche Foundation (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,400 to it, the largest being THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2023
$332
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$50k
Net assets
$216
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%
01What it does

What The Gouche Foundation does

Mission

Scholarships, Student Financial Aid, Awards

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Our mission is to create scholarship opportunities for inner city youth while promoting the importance of education through Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy.

    $7,582 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $7,582.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($13k) Expenses 100 ($21k) Net assets 100 ($2k)2020 Revenue 146 ($19k) Expenses 4 ($728) Net assets 852 ($20k)2021 Revenue 121 ($16k) Expenses 16 ($3k) Net assets 1384 ($33k)2022 Revenue 73 ($9k) Expenses 97 ($20k) Net assets 317 ($7k)2023 Revenue 3 ($332) Expenses 37 ($8k) Net assets 9 ($216)
20192020202120222023
Revenue (3)Expenses (37)Net assets (9)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $33k to $7k (−77%).

$2k
$20k
$33k
$7k
$216
20192020202120222023
Total assets

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of The Gouche Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,912 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$8k
’19
$18k
’20
$13k
’21
−$10k
’22
−$7k
’23
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $188 → $212.

Funder
'22
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Gouche Foundation’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

The Gouche Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

100% 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 The Gouche Foundation.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of The Gouche Foundation'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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

The Gouche Foundation's revenue fell 97% between 2019 and 2023.

Operating margin−2184% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−60% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,390 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Gouche Foundation?
The Gouche Foundation (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,400 to it, the largest being THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does The Gouche Foundation have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $50,400 in grants to The Gouche Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Gouche Foundation?
THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Gouche Foundation 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 FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), and the filings of 2 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