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Barry and Barbara Goldin Foundation at a glance

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Barry and Barbara Goldin 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.

$38k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$72kInternational$13kEducation$12kReligion$5kArts & Culture$4kCrime & Legal$2kHuman Services$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$200
Median grant
6
States reached
$171k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE$10,000
MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATI$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$5,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL$2,000
RICHARD HORGAN ATTORNEY AT LAW$2,000
WRIGHTSVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURC$2,000
EAST END HOSPICE$1,000
MAGEN DAVID ADOM$1,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE$1,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$500
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$500
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT$300
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER$300
THIRTY WEST 44TH FOUNDATION$200
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY$200
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EAST END HOSPICE: $1k → 7%EAST END HOSPICE: $100 → 7%LOWER CAPE FEAR LIFECARE: $250 → 12%EAST END HOSPICE: $100 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
IA
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
FL
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$96k · 27 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
25

Total granted

$96k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+23%

Still filing today

52%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • EE
    East End Hospice Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1k · revenue +15%
  • MM
    MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC
    3× · 2018–2022 · $900 · revenue +95%
  • BA
    Brickell Avenue Literary Society Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $900 · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • MS
    MT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +23%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
University of Miami
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3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health
6
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
7
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Zoetic Stage 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

27 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. 27 of the 74 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
17/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MT SINAI FOUNDATION: $22,500 · OtherMT SINAI FOUNDATIONBASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE: $20,500 · OtherBASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTEIndividual grant recipient: $13,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATI: $7,000 · OtherMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIVARIOUS RECIPIENTS - CONTRIBUTIONS OF 250 OR LESS TO EACH: $3,765 · OtherBASCOLM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE: $3,000 · Other+44 more: $20,035 · Other+44 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $11,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF …AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FR…+1 more: $100 · InternationalMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthMOUNT SINA…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $850 · HealthST JUDE CH…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $650 · HealthALZHEIMER'…+1 more: $100 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,650 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $700 · Education+3 more: $700 · EducationMIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC: $900 · Arts & CultureBrickell Avenue Literary Society Inc: $900 · Arts & CultureTHIRTY WEST FORTY FOURTH STREET FOUNDATION: $300 · Arts & CultureWESTHAMPTON BEACH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $300 · Arts & CultureANNE FRANK CENTER USA INC: $100 · Arts & CultureZOETIC STAGE INC: $100 · Arts & CultureEast End Hospice Inc: $1,200 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 · Human ServicesLower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare: $250 · Human ServicesFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionHUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC: $700 · Environment
Other$89,900International$13,100Health$11,600Education$10,050Arts & Culture$2,600Human Services$2,450Food & Nutrition$1,000Environment$700

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,650 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEast End Hospice Inc: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $1,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER ISLAND PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBrickell Avenue Literary Society Inc: $900 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC: $700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTHAMPTON FREE LIBRARY: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FRIENDS SCHOOL: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTHAMPTON BEACH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERALD CHARITIES INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZOETIC STAGE 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.

The Crapple FoundationJewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Crapple FoundationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Crapple Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Barry and Barbara Goldin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barry and Barbara Goldin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Miami Music Project Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report 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 Barry and Barbara Goldin 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 74 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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