Ohio · Private foundation
Gail and Sheldon 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.
- $188k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 43
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Gail and Sheldon Goodman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $188k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $171k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $113k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $561k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $585k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $77k | 39% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $236k | 52% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $66k | 41% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chabad Jewish Center of Solon | $1,299,390 | 9 | n/a |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $170,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $143,900 | 7 | 0% |
| College Now Greater Cleveland Inc | $42,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $40,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America Inc | $32,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $23,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $19,000 | 8 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $12,600 | 9 | 0% |
| Lifeact | $10,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($140k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gail and Sheldon Goodman Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 Cleveland · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · The Miller Family Foundation · The Joseph and Florence Mandel Family- Penni M and Stephen J Weinberg Family Fund · The Swagelok Foundation · Henry Meyer Family Foundation · The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust · Abr Family Foundation No 1 · The Horowitz Ratner Family Foundation · Irving I Stone Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Gail and Sheldon Goodman Family Foundation with peer funders
About Gail and Sheldon Goodman Family Foundation
- How much does Gail and Sheldon Goodman Family Foundation give?
- Gail and Sheldon Goodman Family Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $188,131 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gail and Sheldon Goodman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (60%), Philanthropy (14%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Gail and Sheldon Goodman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chabad Jewish Center of Solon ($1.3M), The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ($171k), Friends of the Israel Defense Forces ($144k).
- Does Gail and Sheldon Goodman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gail and Sheldon Goodman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gail and Sheldon Goodman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Cleveland, The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation, The Cleveland Foundation.
- Where is Gail and Sheldon Goodman Family Foundation based?
- Gail and Sheldon Goodman Family Foundation is based in OH.
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