· Private foundation
Arlene & Arnold Goldstein Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of ARLENE & ARNOLD GOLDSTEIN CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG LIFE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| GREAT PLAINS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITIUTE | $10,000 |
| FOOD AND WATER WATCH | $10,000 |
| EVERGREEN COLLABORATIVE | $10,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $10,000 |
| CLIMATE DEFENSE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND | $10,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | $10,000 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $10,000 |
| ANTI-DEFEMATION LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $10k) 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.
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.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BLBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA5× · 2019–2024 · $250k · revenue +133%
EARTHJUSTICE4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +16%- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- CUCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY-COLLEGE OF PHYSone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- EPECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -4%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE EARTHgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +71%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
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…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.
The environmental law & policy center (elpc) is the midwest's leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and ecobusiness innovation organization, and among the nation's leaders. we develop and lead successful strategic…
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Earth and the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 22 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Climate Defense Project ↗
- Who funds FOOD & WATER WATCH ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arlene & Arnold Goldstein Charitable Trust 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.
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.
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