How much does Golden Family Foundation give?

Golden Family Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $1,681,508 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 43 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Golden Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (15%), Arts & Culture (14%), Philanthropy (5%).

Who are Golden Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Colgate University ($423k), Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion ($337k), Friends of United Hatzalah Inc ($100k).

Does Golden Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Golden 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 Golden Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The New York Community Trust, National Philanthropic Trust.

Where is Golden Family Foundation based?

Golden Family Foundation is based in NY.

Golden Family Foundation

Golden Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Golden 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.

$1.7M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$502k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$851kArts & Culture$785kPhilanthropy$271kInternational$198kHealth$198kReligion$173kCommunity Improvement$111kRecreation & Sports$109kOther$0

02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k20 grants · $70k
$10k–50k15 grants · $269k
$50k–250k9 grants · $841k
$250k+1 grant · $502k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVATORY NEW YORK	$501,500
COLGATE UNIVERSITY	$200,000
HEBREW UNION COLLEGE	$103,200
COLGATE GOLDENS FELLOWS ENDOWMENT	$101,317
HEBREW UNION COLLEGE	$91,949
HEBREW UNION COLLEGE	$91,286
JEWISH FEDERATION PALM BEACH	$86,000
FOUR ARTS SOCIETY	$60,000
Individual grant recipient	$57,180
KBY CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER	$50,000
HEBREW UNION COLLEGE	$35,681
Individual grant recipient	$31,000
MECOX BAY CONSERVANCY	$25,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE PALM BEACH	$25,000
COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	$25,000

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 (FY23–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.9M · 40 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.9M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%

+17%

Still filing today

57%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $783k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthInternationalArts & CultureReligionEnvironmentOther

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

CU
COLGATE UNIVERSITY
3× · 2023–2025 · $423k · revenue +40%
BI
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +3%
CM
COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC
4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +6%

Funded once

SD
SEE DETAILED LIST ATTACHED
one grant, 2019 · $668k
FO
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
CS
COLGATE - SEVEN OAKS RENEWAL
one grant, 2022 · $88k

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.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy

The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture

Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Visions for Public Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mecox Bay Conservancy 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

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 83 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)

43/44

Grantees still filing

26/44

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,810,602Education$474,900Arts & Culture$168,000International$137,733Health$135,630Philanthropy$86,200Religion$54,000

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 Communal FundNY23.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Jacobson Family Foundation · Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation Inc · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get 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 · 0–40%

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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