· Private foundation
Charles & Barbara Goodman 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $171k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARIN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION (CTE) | $110,000 |
| VIVALON | $50,000 |
| FROMM INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING | $40,000 |
| SCHOOLS RULE MARIN | $28,000 |
| DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (NURSING PROGRAM) | $25,000 |
| MSA FOUNDATION (NOVATO HS ARTS PROGRAM) | $22,000 |
| MARIN IJ GIVING MARIN | $20,000 |
| MELISSA PRANDI CHILDREN INSTITUTE (UGANDA) | $15,000 |
| SHIFTING GEARS USA | $11,000 |
| ACD AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| SONOMA EQUINE RESCUE REHAB & ADOPTION | $5,000 |
| MISSION HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MARIN ART & GARDEN CENTER | $1,000 |
| ROSS PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| NORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER | $250 |
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 (FY21–25, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +97% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 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
- MGMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $200k · revenue +243%
- VVivalon5× · 2021–2025 · $160k · revenue +66%
- SGSHIFTING GEARS USA4× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- MCMARIN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k
- DUDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (LIBRARY FUND)one grant, 2023 · $15k
- MCMARIN COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
To be the destination for health and healing in the north bay.
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
To provide services to the public that enable the understanding and appreciation of the history of San Francisco.
The Novato Historical Guild's mission is to collect, preserve and make reasonably available to the public, exhibits and information related to the historical and social development of the Novato valley, Hamilton Field and the adjacent…
Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…
The Museum inspires wonder, discovery, and stewardship of our natural world. The Museum is a catalyst for conservation and a valued learning resource, facilitating active scientific and historical inquiry for all ages.
GSMRM displays and operates model railroad layouts in three model scales, showing historical and current railroad scenes from the Bay Area, California, and other areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marin General Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Town of Ross Property Owners Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 38 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 MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vivalon ↗
- Who funds SHIFTING GEARS USA ↗
- Who funds Sonoma Equine Rescue Rehab & Adoption Inc ↗
- Who funds BY THE BAY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds KENTFIELD-GREENBRAE HISTORICAL SOCI ↗
- Who funds Marin Art and Garden Center ↗
- Who funds Norcal Golden Retriever Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds Marin History Museum ↗
- Who funds TOWN OF ROSS PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Mission High Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER 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: Marin Community Foundation · The Kennenth and Joan Gosliner Foundation · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Nasaw Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Charles & Barbara Goodman 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.
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.