Golden Fleece Foundation Charity

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
261393747
IRS 990-PF coverage
2017–2023
Forms available
Form 990-PF 2023
Location
Enfield, CT, USA
Phone
8602534637
Rating
59
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Private Independent Foundations

Reported finances

Revenue
$5
Expenses
$413,790

Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Overview

Mission

Private Independent Foundations

What it reported funding in 2023

The foundation reported 6 filed grant rows totaling $370,466. The stated grant purposes included empower promising, underrepresented young people, first generation college students, students from low-income backgrounds, and students of color with skills, confidence, experiences, and networks necessary to transition, dedicated to achieving artistic excellence while developing an american theater that is accessible and relevant to all people through productions of challenging new plays, musicals and innovative stagings of the classics, and preserves and promotes the history of tennis and celebrates its champions, thereby serving as a vital partner in the growth of tennis globally, plus 3 other reported purposes.

Operating model

Revenue model
Investment-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from recurring investment income.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 90% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and the filing identifies who received its grants. Assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants.

Rating breakdown

  • Grant Deployment: NotEnoughData
  • Cost Efficiency: 90
  • Transparency: 100
  • Compliance: 100
  • Endowment Health: 7

Detailed rating inputs

Grant Deployment

  • Grant deployment ratio: Limited

Cost Efficiency

  • Grant expense ratio: 89.5%; rating input score 90; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency

  • Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100

Compliance

  • Foundation activity disclosures: 19 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
    • Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
    • Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
    • Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
    • Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
    • Payment to a government official: Pass
    • Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
    • Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
    • Excess business holdings: Pass
    • Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
    • Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
    • Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
    • Attempt to influence an election: Pass
    • Individual grants for travel, study or similar purposes: Pass
    • Grants outside qualifying charitable organization categories: Pass
    • Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
    • Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
    • Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
    • Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
  • Filing consistency checks: 9; rating input score 100

Endowment Health

  • Endowment-health comparison: 0; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
  • Payout: Filed payout detail
  • Trustees: Filed trustees detail
  • Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
  • Investments: 7th percentile for endowment coverage
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2017 to 2023
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 7/100.