· Private foundation
Gold Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 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, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $279k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NYU LANGONE | $1,000,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $499,059 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS | $300,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $248,611 |
| JBN FOUNDATION | $248,611 |
| USA CYCLING FOUNDATION | $149,165 |
| WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF | $121,585 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $110,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND USA | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $99,447 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $99,447 |
| RAILS-TO-TRAILS | $59,747 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Gold Family Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 59% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 54%.
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 +89% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $903k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
University of Chicago6× · 2019–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +25%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2018–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +89%
WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP7× · 2018–2024 · $822k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- HSHARVARD SCHOOL OF ENGINEERINGone grant, 2021 · $500k
- OSOCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k
- JBJEWISH BUSINESS NETWORKone grant, 2019 · $36k
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 48 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 University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC DEBONIS ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds League of American Wheelman Inc ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds Bike New York Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROCKEFELLER STATE PARK PRESERVE ↗
- Who funds DKMS ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE OLD CROTON AQUEDUCT ↗
- Who funds HANOVER CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
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 Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gold Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gold Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cyrus E Dallin Art Museum Inc: 21% of income from government
- The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis: 17% of income from government
How this is measured
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