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Frank R Goodman Family Foundation at a glance

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Frank R Goodman Family 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.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$355kInternational$177kPhilanthropy$66kHuman Services$40kHealth$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kCommunity Improvement$5k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$946k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE$25,000
ALPHA PHI FOUNDATION$10,000
FISHERMANS MARK$10,000
BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $5k → 9%FISHERMANS MARK: $10k → 4%CENTRAL BUCKS FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 6%CENTRAL BUCKS FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 6%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $5k → 6%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$622k · 7 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +104% since the first grant, against +68% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$622k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+104%
+68%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthInternationalEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • BC
    BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE THEATER INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $315k · revenue +364%
  • AP
    ALPHA PHI FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +13%
  • PA
    PLAYHOUSE ARTISTS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • DH
    DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +9%
  • UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +6%
  • UA
    UCLA ANDERSON PRICE CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
Bucks County Medical Society

The bucks county medical society strives to advance the professional and personal development of its physician members by providing educational and practice related resources as well as legislative advocacy. moreover, the bucks county…

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2
Bucks County Bar Association

The association is a professional organization whose purpose is to improve the quality of the legal profession.

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3
Pennsylvania Medical Society

The pennsylvania medical society is the voice of pennsylvania's physicians and the patients they serve. we advance quality patient care and the ethical practice of medicine. we promote physician leadership, education, professional…

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4
Public Health Fund

To improve the health of the delaware valley community through innovative & effective public health initiatives.

Health
5
Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc

The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.

Health
6
Philadelphia County Medical Society

The mission of the philadelphia county medical society (pcms) is to aggressively advance and support the interests of physicians and their patients. pcms is pennsylvania's premier county medical organization.

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7
Lancaster General Health Foundation

The lancaster general health foundation is organized and operated to benefit, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of members of the healthcare system of lancaster general health, a non-profit corporation described in…

Philanthropy
8
Bucks County Bar Foundation

Our mission is to promote and support programs, organizations, and individuals throughout bucks county who are engaged in activities designed to foster respect for the rule of law, the advancement of rights, liberties, and protections…

Crime & Legal
9
Bucks County Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Our mission is to provide resources, answers and support to people with blindness or other visual impairment which will maximize their ability to meet life's daily challenges and realize their continued self-worth and value to our…

Health
10
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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11
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.

Health
12
Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation

The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bucks County Opportunity Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bucks County Playhouse Theater 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

15 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. 15 of the 17 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE THEATER INC: $314,700 · Arts & CultureBUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE THEATER INCPLAYHOUSE ARTISTS: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePLAYHOUSE ARTISTS+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePEARL S BUCK INTERNATIONAL INC: $177,000 · InternationalPEARL S BUCK INTERNATIONAL I…ALPHA PHI FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · EducationALPHA PHI …CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherTHE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · OtherUCLA ANDERSON PRICE CENTER: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherFishermans Mark: $10,000 · Human ServicesRIVER CROSSING YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesBUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesDOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthLENAPE VALLEY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $10,000 · Public Benefit
Arts & Culture$344,700International$177,000Education$65,000Other$41,000Human Services$35,000Health$20,000Public Benefit$10,000

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 budgetBUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE THEATER INC: $314,700 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetPEARL S BUCK INTERNATIONAL INC: $177,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetALPHA PHI FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPLAYHOUSE ARTISTS: $25,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFishermans Mark: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER CROSSING YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLENAPE VALLEY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY HERALD FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 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.

Penn Community Bank F…Foundations Community…Franklin St Giving Tr…Morel Family Foundati…Seemon H & Natalie E …Bucks County Foundati…The Marvin and Dee Wo…The Pearl Family Foun…Bbla Foundation IncWaldman Family Charit…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…
Penn Community Bank FoundationPA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Penn Community Bank Foundation · Foundations Community Partnership · Franklin St Giving Tree Foundation · Morel Family Foundation · Seemon H & Natalie E Pines Fnd · Bucks County Foundation · The Marvin and Dee Woodall Charitable Foundation · The Pearl Family Foundation Inc · Bbla Foundation Inc · Waldman Family Charitable Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Frank R Goodman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank R Goodman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Frank R Goodman Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Frank R Goodman Family 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 17 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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