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Alma J Goldman Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Alma J Goldman Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$9kCivil Rights$7kInternational$7kArts & Culture$6kAnimals$6kHealth$2kEnvironment$750Human Services$700Other$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,600
Median grant
2
States reached
$226k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE EMANUEL$6,205
BROTHERS FOR LIFE$3,600
TEMPLE BETH SHALOM$1,847
TEMPLE BETH ELOHIM$405
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Leading Edge Productions: $500 → 7%Newton Wellesley Hospital: $500 → 8%Brookline High School Alumni Assoc: $250 → 10%Make-A-Wish Foundation of Massachus: $250 → 16%The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust: $750 → 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $4k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $150 → 14%National Council of Jewish Women: $500 → 6%Make-A-Wish Foundation of Massachus: $250 → 16%The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust: $750 → 10%FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH: $4k → 17%World Wildlife Fund: $150 → 14%National Council of Jewish Women: $360 → 6%Tufts Univerity Hillel: $180 → 8%Make-A-Wish Foundation of Massachus: $250 → 16%The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust: $510 → 10%Friends of the IDF: $2k → 17%World Wildlife Fund: $150 → 14%Tufts Univerity Hillel: $180 → 8%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS: $250 → 16%The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust: $500 → 10%Friends of United Hatzalah: $2k → 17%TEMPLE EMANUEL: $6k → 8%THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA: $500 → 10%America Friends of Magen David Adom: $750 → 17%Temple Emanuel: $180 → 8%MSPCA - ANGEL: $350 → 16%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $500 → 17%National Council of Jewish Women: $500 → 14%MSPCA - Angell Memorial: $350 → 16%HADASSAH: $250 → 17%National Council of Jewish Women: $500 → 14%TEMPLE BETH SHALOM: $4k → 7%MSPCA - Angell Memorial: $350 → 16%Hadassah: $250 → 17%NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN: $250 → 14%TEMPLE BETH SHALOM: $2k → 7%MSPCA - Angell Memorial: $350 → 16%Hadassah: $180 → 17%MSPCA: $250 → 16%Hadassah: $180 → 17%Combined Jewish Philanthropies: $360 → 16%Temple Ohabei Shalom: $257 → 7%ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE - NEW ENGLAND: $5k → 16%Temple Ohabei Shalom: $185 → 7%Temple Beth Elohim: $2k → 7%Temple Beth Elohim: $2k → 7%TEMPLE BETH ELOHIM: $405 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36k · 21 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against -48% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
14

Total granted

$36k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
-48%

Still filing today

52%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsArts & CultureHealthInternationalEnvironmentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TD
    THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +254%
  • NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1k · revenue +48%
  • MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE - NEW ENGLAND
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -33%
  • LE
    LEADING EDGE PRODUCTIONS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue -79%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
2
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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4
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
5
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
6
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
7
Aishel Hatzedek
International
8
International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc

The international fellowship of christian and jews is the leading non-profit building bridges between christians and jews, blessing israel and the jewish people around the world with, humanitarian care and life-saving aid.

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9
Sherit Isroel
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10
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc

Uja-federation of new york (uja) cares for jews everywhere and new yorkers of all backgrounds, responds to crises close to home and far away, and shapes the jewish future. through strategic grantmaking, uja provides funding and resources…

Philanthropy
11
Physicians for Palestine
Health
12
The Jewish Federations of North America Inc

The federation movement protects and enhances the well-being of jews worldwide through the values of tikkun olam (repairing the world), tzedakah (charity and social justice) and torah (jewish learning). the jewish federations of north…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc; the most unlike its peers is Musicians of the Old Post Road Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
8/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE EMANUEL: $6,385 · OtherTEMPLE EMANUELTEMPLE BETH SHALOM: $5,440 · OtherTEMPLE BETH SHALOMANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE - NEW ENGLAND: $5,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE - NEW ENGLANDTEMPLE BETH ELOHIM: $3,685 · OtherTEMPLE BETH ELOHIMMSPCA - Angell Memorial: $1,050 · Other+17 more: $5,395 · Other+17 moreFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $5,100 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HA…Brothers for Life: $3,600 · Arts & CultureBrothers for LifeLEADING EDGE PRODUCTIONS INC: $500 · Arts & CultureLEADING EDGE PRODUCT…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $4,350 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIEND…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,800 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE …JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $500 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL…THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $3,010 · AnimalsTHE DAVID…BUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $450 · AnimalsBUDDY DOG…THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $300 · AnimalsTHE AMERI…MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $250 · AnimalsMASSACHUS…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $1,100 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $150 · HealthWELLESLEY NEIGHBORS INC: $100 · HealthNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $1,250 · Community ImprovementWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $600 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD: $150 · Environment
Other$26,955Arts & Culture$9,200International$6,650Animals$4,010Health$1,350Community Improvement$1,250Environment$750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $5,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $4,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $3,010 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $1,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEADING EDGE PRODUCTIONS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY INC: $360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELLIE FUND INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLINE HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOC: $250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWELLESLEY NEIGHBORS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMusicians of the Old Post Road Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Evelyn & Louis Grossm…Combined Jewish Phila…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Evelyn & Louis Grossman Fund IncMA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Evelyn & Louis Grossman Fund Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alma J Goldman Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alma J Goldman Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Ellie Fund Inc: 15% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Alma J Goldman Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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