· Private foundation
Ernest and Doris Goodman Charitable Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Ernest and Doris Goodman Charitable Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to The Jewish Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Ernest and Doris Goodman Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $22k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADAT ARI EL | $9,910 |
| DE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING | $1,000 |
| CAMP RAMAH | $1,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $1,000 |
| WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS | $800 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY | $750 |
| MASORTI FOUNDATION | $620 |
| HILLEL | $600 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $500 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $500 |
| HIDE AND SEEK FOUNDATION | $500 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JT DISTRIBUTION CO | $360 |
| AM FRIENDS OF MOGAN DAVID AGOM | $360 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2019, 10 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DTDE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +7%
- CRCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +59%
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- ZSZEIGLER SCHOOL OF RABBINICone grant, 2017 · $750
- LBLEO BAECK TEMPLEone grant, 2018 · $500
- AJAKIBA-SCHECHTER JEWISH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $500
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
19 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. 19 of the 67 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 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds DE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Nefesh B'Nefesh Jewish Souls United Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BET TZEDEK ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES JEWISH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds THE HIDE AND SEEK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds ALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION ↗
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 Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jacoby Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Lynn & Les Bider Family Foundation · The Field Family Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ernest and Doris Goodman Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ernest and Doris Goodman Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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