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Edwin Gould Foundation for Children

New York, NY · EIN 13-5675642. Reported 102 grants totalling $7,241,023 to 58 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$6,000median grant
$7,241,023granted, 2021-2024
58organizations funded
54%of grantees funded again the next year
$34.2Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Edwin Gould Foundation for Children did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $6,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $35,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $5,122,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
5 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
18 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
34 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
12 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
15 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
16 grants
$100,000 and Up
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Sponsors for Educational OpportunityNew York, NY$5,195,000442024
Good Shepherd ServicesNew York, NY$265,000112024
Genesys WorksNew York, NY$260,500442024
UaspireBoston, MA$244,625442024
The Art of Problem Solving Foundation-BeamNew York, NY$202,000442024
Hechinger Institute Teachers College Columbia UniversityNew York, NY$175,000442024
Education Writers AssociationWashington, DC$170,000442024
Kura Labs IncBronx, NY$100,000222023
Fund for the City of New YorkNew York, NY$91,500332024
Latino U College AccessWhite Plains, NY$81,000442024
Last Mile Talent Development IncBronx, NY$50,000112021
The Education Trust IncWashington, DC$35,000332023
Institute for Nonprofit PracticeBoston, MA$30,000112023
Hispanics in PhilanthrophyOakland, CA$29,995222022
OnegoalNew York, NY$29,800222023
College Spring IncSan Francisco, CA$25,000112021
Global GlimpseNew York, NY$25,000112021
Teach for AmericaNew York, NY$20,000442024
Metropolitan College of New YorkNew York, NY$10,000222022
Promise ProjectfcnyNew York, NY$10,000442024
St Paul & St Andrew United Methodist ChurchNew York, NY$10,000112024
The Children's Therapy CenterFair Lawn, NJ$10,000442024
Road to Uni FoundationEast Elmhurst, NY$9,000112022
Egf Fellows Program - Inspiring Futures IncBronx, NY$7,500112024
Egf Fellows Program - Admissionsquad IncBrooklyn, NY$7,000112024
Egf Fellows Program - New Neighbors Partnership AssociationNew York, NY$7,000112024
Future Leaders in ActionNew York, NY$7,000332023
Liberated Success IncBrooklyn, NY$7,000112023
Global GlimpseOakland, CA$6,313222024
Speak Mentorship IncFloral Park, NY$6,000112023
America Needs YouNew York, NY$5,160112021
Almost Fun IncBrooklyn, NY$5,000112022
Brooklyn Debate LeagueBrooklyn, NY$5,000112023
Canarsie Community Development IncBrooklyn, NY$5,000112023
Dyslexia Alliance for Black ChildrenNew Rochelle, NY$5,000112023
Egf Fellows Program - Auxiliary Police Super Ben Assoc of the City of NyParkchester, NY$5,000112024
Egf Fellows Program - Governor's Committee on Scholastic AchievementNew York, NY$5,000112024
Egf Fellows Program - New Community Project IncYonkers, NY$5,000112024
Egf Fellows Program - Teens of Color Abroad IncBrooklyn, NY$5,000112024
Egf Fellows Program - the Asian American Dream IncNew York, NY$5,000112024
Harlem Free Fight Academy IncorporatedNew York, NY$5,000112022
Navigate the Maze to Achievement IncBrooklyn, NY$5,000112022
ReadworksBrooklyn, NY$5,000112021
Replications IncNew York, NY$5,000112022
Start Lighthouse IncNew York, NY$5,000112022
STEM Hive IncMaspeth, NY$5,000112022
The Inspired Community ProjectNew York, NY$5,000112022
Tiger College Advising TeamWest New York, NJ$5,000112023
United Way of Northern New JerseyCedar Knolls, NJ$5,000112024
Yonkers Partners in EducationYonkers, NY$5,000112024
Philanthrophy New YorkNew York, NY$3,600442024
New York University Steinhardt FinanceNew York, NY$3,500112021
Egf Fellows Program - Bee U IncBrooklyn, NY$3,000112024
Students Rising AboveSan Francisco, CA$1,030112021
Echoing GreenNew York, NY$1,000112021
Exalt YouthBrooklyn, NY$1,000112024
Integrate Nyc IncNew York, NY$1,000112023
Pace UniversityNew York, NY$500112022

19 of 58 (33%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 54%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

Plus 34 grants to individuals totalling $132,250 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 50 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
33 grants
Youth Development
7 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
5 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Community Improvement
1 grant
Public & Societal Benefit
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202125$432,460$10,000
202226$489,650$5,000
202324$429,263$6,000
202427$5,889,650$5,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 92% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$6.7M
Massachusetts
$275K
District of Columbia
$205K
California
$62K
New Jersey
$20K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund19 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc17 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc15 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program15 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust13 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund12 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $6,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Edwin Gould Foundation for Children's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 55 Exchange Place 401, New York, NY, 10005. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 13-5675642 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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