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Robert Gould Foundation Inc

Milford, OH · EIN 31-6064275. Reported 24 grants totalling $314,900 to 23 organizations across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$8,750median grant
$314,900granted, 2024
23organizations funded
$10.6Massets, 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. Robert Gould Foundation Inc 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 $8,750. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
3 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
8 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
7 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
4 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

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
CetCincinnati, OH$50,000112024
Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard ClubAspen, CO$45,000112024
Cincinnati Nature CenterMilford, OH$35,000212024
Progressive Senior Citzens ClubCincinnati, OH$30,000112024
Imani Family Learning CenterCincinnati, OH$25,000112024
Memorial Hall SocietyCincinnati, OH$20,000112024
Cincinnati Museum CenterCincinnati, OH$15,000112024
Cardinal Land ConservancyMilford, OH$10,000112024
Creature ConserveBarrington, RI$10,000112024
Freestore FoodbankCincinnati, OH$10,000112024
ProkidsCincinanti, OH$10,000112024
Taft Museum of ArtCincinnati, OH$10,000112024
Contemporary Arts CenterCincinnati, OH$7,500112024
Friends of Harriet Beecher Stowe HoCincinnati, OH$5,000112024
Historic Southwest OhioCincinnati, OH$5,000112024
IN5Cincinnati, OH$5,000112024
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Greater CincinnatiCincinnati, OH$5,000112024
Seven Hills SchoolsCincinnati, OH$5,000112024
Stepping Stones CenterCincinnati, OH$5,000112024
Epilepsy Foundation Metro New YorkNew York, NY$3,200112024
Starshine Hospice & Palliative Care Cincinnati Chidren's Hosp Med CenterCincinnati, OH$2,500112024
Big Horn Equestiran CenterSheridan, WY$1,200112024
Cornell Lab Or OrnithologyIthaca, NY$500112024
Plus 65 grants to individuals totalling $915,025 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 14 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
5 grants
Environment
3 grants
Human Services
2 grants
Recreation & Sports
1 grant
Animal Welfare
1 grant
Civil Rights
1 grant
Education
1 grant

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 81% of this one's giving went to organizations in Ohio. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Ohio
$255K
Colorado
$45K
Rhode Island
$10K
New York
$4K
Wyoming
$1K

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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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $8,750. 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 Ohio.
  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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Robert Gould Foundation Inc'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: Po Box 225, Milford, OH, 45150. 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 31-6064275 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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