· Private foundation
Edward J & Myrna K 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $20,000 |
| ABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL | $19,750 |
| CONGREGATION KENESETH ISRAEL | $11,000 |
| CONGREGATION RODEPH SHALOM | $5,000 |
| ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY | $500 |
| BREASTFEEDING RESOURCE CENTER | $500 |
| GRATZ COLLEGE | $500 |
| JENKINTOWN LIBRARY | $250 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ABINGTON TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY | $250 |
| MCKINLEY FIRE COMPANY NO 1 | $250 |
| DAUGHTERS OF 1853 NURSING SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $250 |
| WHYY | $250 |
| LEGACY YOUTH TENNIS AND EDUCATION | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 18% of Edward J & Myrna K Goodman Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down.
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; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $245k · revenue +35%
- AHABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +150%
JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY8× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- PHPHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k
- FHFEMALE HEBREW BENEVALENCE SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $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.
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.
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How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 41 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
- Who funds GRATZ COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
- Who funds BREASTFEEDING RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center ↗
- Who funds JEVS HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds Abington Art Center ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ABINGTON TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Legacy Youth Tennis And Education Inc ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCKINLEY FIRE CO NO 1 ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HUNTINGDON VALLEY LIBRARY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · The William Penn Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edward J & Myrna K Goodman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward J & Myrna K Goodman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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