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Arlene & Arnold Goldstein Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$214k
Granted FY2017
26
Grants FY2017
8
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k17 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $71k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREAT PLAINS FOUNDATION$50,000
BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA$50,000
Individual grant recipient$11,096
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$10,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$10,000
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH$10,000
FOOD WATER ACTION FUND$10,000
CAIR FOUNDATION$10,000
ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$5,000
YIVO INSTITUTE JEWISH RESEARCH$5,000
PHYLLIS ALBSTEIN FUND BRAIN SCIENCE$5,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELE$5,000
CHAI LIFELINE$5,000
SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELE: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

2
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
5
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
6
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
8
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
9
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

10
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
11
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
12
Center for Arms Control and

A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to enhancing international peace and security in the 21st century, thereby retaining its focus on nuclear weapons but expanding to include other present emerging security threats.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chabad's Children of Chernobyl. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREAT PLAINS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherGREAT PLAINS FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $11,096 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFOOD WATER ACTION FUND — $10,000 · OtherFOOD WATER ACTION FUNDPHYLLIS ALBSTEIN FUND BRAIN SCIENCE — $5,000 · OtherYIVO INSTITUTE JEWISH RESEARCH — $5,000 · OtherSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC — $5,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS — $5,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES — $5,000 · OtherCHAI LIFELINE INC — $5,000 · Other+8 more — $10,450 · Other+8 moreBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA — $50,000 · AnimalsBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USACAIR-FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $1,000 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $10,000 · InternationalCHABAD'S CHILDREN OF CHERNOBYL — $1,000 · InternationalNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentTREE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ENDOWMENT FUND — $500 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE — $10,000 · Social Science
Other$111,546Animals$50,000Civil Rights$11,000International$11,000Environment$10,500Crime & Legal$10,000Social Science$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCAIR-FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHABAD'S CHILDREN OF CHERNOBYL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ENDOWMENT FUND — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Arlene & Arnold Goldstein Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report 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, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Arlene & Arnold Goldstein Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Arlene & Arnold Goldstein Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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