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Central National Gottesman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
187
Grants FY2025still arriving
35
States reached
$429k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$7.6MArts & Culture$3.5MHealth$1.3MFood & Nutrition$776kPhilanthropy$733kInternational$485kHuman Services$428kYouth Development$339kOther$0
02FY2025 · 187 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k126 grants · $411k
  • $10k–50k48 grants · $970k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $857k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$5,000
Median grant
35
States reached
$54M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$428,500
SKIDMORE COLLEGE$325,000
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION$250,000
FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC$127,000
WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE$100,000
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY$100,000
NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC$100,000
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$100,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$100,000
NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY$80,000
HARLEM ACADEMY$50,000
CENTRAL NATIONAL GOTTESMAN FOUNDATION CANADA$50,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC$50,000
NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION INC$46,400
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$41,500
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 (FY19–25, $376k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHOICES HEALTHCARE: $2k → 9%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION INC: $2k → 12%OPERATION CARE AND COMFORT: $2k → 10%TREAT 'EM LIKE A KING: $5k → 12%HARDIN COUNTY CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER INC: $3k → 13%HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%OKLAHOMA BAPTIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN INC: $3k → 16%THORNWELL: $3k → 18%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2k → 14%AACORN FARM INC: $2k → 12%DIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA: $5k → 11%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $3k → 9%COMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY: $2k → 13%GRAHAMTASTIC CONNECTION: $6k → 9%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMOISE INC: $5k → 10%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $6k → 9%A SMALL MIRACLE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY ENDOWMENT AND LEGACY FUND: $4k → 16%HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2k → 14%COMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $3k → 12%CAPITAL HOSPICE: $3k → 6%GRAHAMTASTIC CONNECTION: $5k → 9%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $2k → 15%PAJAMA PROGRAM: $5k → 17%A SMALL MIRACLE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%CHILD RESCUE COALITION INC: $7k → 11%THDF LI INC(DBA THE HOME DEPOT FOUNDATION AND HOMER FUND): $16k → 8%NEADS INC: $5k → 11%PAJAMA PROGRAM: $3k → 17%HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%THDF LI INC(DBA THE HOME DEPOT FOUNDATION AND HOMER FUND): $9k → 8%THDF LI INC(DBA THE HOME DEPOT FOUNDATION AND HOMER FUND): $6k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO: $2k → 12%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $5k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 14%IRVING - THE MAIN PLACE: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $3k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF HAWAII: $3k → 9%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $5k → 7%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $3k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $2k → 9%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $2k → 11%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $2k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 9%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

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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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 289 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

289 repeat relationships: 124 still active in FY2025, 165 since wound down; 61 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

289
279

Total granted

$13M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+14%

Still filing today

65%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $678k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • SC
    SKIDMORE COLLEGE
    3× · 2022–2025 · $825k · revenue +7%
  • AM
    American Museum of Natural History
    2× · 2023–2025 · $629k · revenue +8%
  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $517k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $230k · revenue +130%
  • WNET
    one grant, 2020 · $225k · revenue -9%
  • LC
    LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +13%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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5
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
6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
8
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
9
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
10
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
11
Stony Brook Childrens Services 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
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pianys Graphic Arts Education Foundation 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

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 453 of the 641 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)
71
Early backer (in before they grew)
444/453
Grantees still filing
304/453
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $412,000 · OtherFEEDING WESTCHESTER INCCENTRAL NATIONAL GOTTESMAN FOUNDATION CANADA: $399,200 · OtherCENTRAL NATIONAL GOTTESMAN FOUNDATION CANADANATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION INC: $336,820 · Other+123 more: $5,348,301 · Other+123 moreSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $825,000 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGEVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $516,752 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYPACE UNIVERSITY: $446,041 · EducationPACE UNIVERSITYFairfield University: $127,284 · EducationHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $118,103 · Education+32 more: $1,369,474 · Education+32 moreMuseum of Modern Art: $1,260,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern ArtAmerican Museum of Natural History: $628,500 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of N…The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $230,000 · Arts & CultureThe Chamber Music So…WNET: $225,000 · Arts & CultureWNETLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $125,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $179,424 · Arts & Culture+3 moreAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ALLIED PRINTING SERVICES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $55,673 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $55,000 · PhilanthropyISSA Charities: $45,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $41,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $13,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $235,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $147,000 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $119,500 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $30,000 · International+2 more: $27,000 · InternationalGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $100,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $100,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $46,750 · HealthInternational Rett Syndrome Foundation: $41,000 · HealthSTARRY FOUNDATION: $33,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $31,500 · HealthGREEK CHILDRENS FUND OF MEMORIAL SLOAN - KETTERING CANCER CENTER INC: $30,000 · HealthCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $20,500 · HealthDartmouth-Hitchcock Health: $19,500 · HealthTHE BRETT BOYER FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 · Health+1 more: $13,000 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $175,000 · Human ServicesTHE NEXT STEP FUND INC: $120,207 · Human ServicesTHDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund: $31,200 · Human ServicesPrint & Graphics Scholarship Foundation: $14,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES INC: $12,500 · Human Services
Other$6,496,321Education$3,402,654Arts & Culture$2,647,924Philanthropy$560,173International$558,500Health$453,250Human Services$352,907

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $1,260,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $825,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $628,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $516,752 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY: $446,041 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $412,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION INC: $336,820 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $235,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $225,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $209,900 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $175,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS FOR A FUTURE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $147,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University: $127,284 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEXT STEP FUND INC: $120,207 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $119,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $118,103 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $112,377 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $109,994 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $80,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPOETS AND WRITERS INC: $79,424 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF UNION COLLEGE IN THE TOWN OF SCHENECTADY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK: $76,621 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY: $71,033 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $69,771 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $69,676 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe George Washington University: $63,374 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $61,920 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWAKEMAN MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $61,150 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLIED PRINTING SERVICES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $55,673 over 7y, 43% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JAY HERITAGE CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetFeeding America: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF RYE TOWN PARK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $49,594 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $46,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MAINE PULP & PAPER FOUNDATION: $46,400 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISSA Charities: $45,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $41,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rett Syndrome Foundation: $41,000 over 7y, 0.2% 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 Cigna Group FoundationPA20× affinity11 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cigna Group Foundation · Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc · Aloha United Way Inc · The Labcorp Charitable Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · Ronald McDonald House Global · Ge Aerospace Foundation · J Watumull Fund · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · The Kirchner Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · John M McClelland Sr Charitable 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 Central National Gottesman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Central National Gottesman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Plummer Youth Promise Inc: 64% of income from government
  • Family Health Center of Worcesterinc: 39% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Child Rescue Coalition Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • The Next Step Fund Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • South Shore Hospital Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Rider University: 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center: 0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Ave Maria University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 Central National Gottesman 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 641 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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