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.

Gail and Sheldon Goodman Family Foundation

Gail and Sheldon Goodman Family Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$1.3MPhilanthropy$301kArts & Culture$148kInternational$135kEducation$87kHealth$61kHuman Services$55kFood & Nutrition$31kOther$0

02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k34 grants · $72k
$10k–50k4 grants · $67k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$3.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES	$50,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM	$29,000
CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF SOLON	$15,000
COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND	$12,500
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION	$10,000
COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING & ANALYSIS	$7,500
CHADBAD NAPLES COMMUNITY CENTER	$7,500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$5,000
AMERICA GIVES INC	$5,000
THE ALGEMEINER	$5,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL	$5,000
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE	$3,600
FOLDS OF HONOR - AMERICAN INTERIORS	$3,500
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$2,500
BUILDING DREAMS FOUNDATION	$2,500

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.0M · 50 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%

+6%

Still filing today

64%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureAnimalsOther

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

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
7× · 2019–2025 · $171k · revenue +21%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
7× · 2018–2025 · $144k · revenue +41%
CN
COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC
4× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +202%

Funded once

CH
CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +15%
CV
CHAGRIN VALLEY COUNTRY CLUB STEPHEN H SPAETH SCHOLARSHIP FUND
one grant, 2024 · $4k
BB
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CLEVELAND
one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +18%

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.

Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…

Health

Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy

Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture

American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights

Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy

Clal-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc

A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.

Religion

Chelsea Jewish Charitable Foundation Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in fundraising activities and provide support services to sponsor related non-profit entities which are engaged to enrich the life of each of their residents and program participants, so that each…

Health

Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home Inc

The organization's mission is to provide individuals throughout the greater boston area with the highest level of skilled nursing, rehabilitation and assisted living services without regard to ability to pay. the goal is to ensure both…

Health

Chelsea Jewish North Shore Assisted Living Inc

To enrich the life of each of our residents and program participants so that each may continue to live his or her life with a sense of meaning and purpose. we provide assisted living units for our tenants.

Housing & Shelter

Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clarion Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Building Dreams Foundation. 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

63 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. 63 of the 111 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

63/63

Grantees still filing

41/63

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,506,356Philanthropy$347,339Arts & Culture$182,010International$179,974Education$71,500Health$41,000Food & Nutrition$22,950

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.

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.

Jewish Federation of ClevelandOH27.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home