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Goldin Foundation for Excellence in Education

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$48k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
88%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$453k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 88% of the organizations Goldin Foundation for Excellence in Education funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$48k75%
FY20238$27k88%
FY20225$36k100%
FY202114$26k71%
FY20209$41k89%
FY20194$31k100%
FY20177$43kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$88kArts & Culture$46kYouth Development$31kCivil Rights$24kHuman Services$22kReligion$18kPublic Benefit$8kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
AR
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wellesley College$11,90030%
Parentchild Inc$10,0001n/a
Thrive Scholars$8,50020%
Cleveland Public Theatre Inc$8,50020%
Play on Philly$7,50011%
One World Education$7,50011%
Thinkgive Inc$7,00023%
Reach Education Inc$6,00021%
Our Sisters School$6,00010%
Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Goldin Foundation for Excellence in Education by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wellesley College$11,90030%
Parentchild Inc$10,0001n/a
Thrive Scholars$8,50020%
Cleveland Public Theatre Inc$8,50020%
Play on Philly$7,50011%
One World Education$7,50011%
Thinkgive Inc$7,00023%
Reach Education Inc$6,00021%
Our Sisters School$6,00010%
Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$1,00010%
Reach Inc$1,00010%
Mosaic Interfaith Youth Action Inc$1,0001n/a

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($170k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Goldin Foundation for Excellence in Education supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWellesley College: $11,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThrive Scholars: $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCleveland Public Theatre Inc: $8,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPlay on Philly: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOne World Education: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThinkgive Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetReach Education Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOur Sisters School: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBoston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFacing History & Ourselves Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReach Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Network for GoodDC8.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Goldin Foundation for Excellence in Education

How much does Goldin Foundation for Excellence in Education give?
Goldin Foundation for Excellence in Education reported 12 grants totaling $48,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Goldin Foundation for Excellence in Education fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (35%), Arts & Culture (18%), Youth Development (12%).
Who are Goldin Foundation for Excellence in Education's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wellesley College ($12k), Parentchild Inc ($10k), Thrive Scholars ($9k).
Does Goldin Foundation for Excellence in Education fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Goldin Foundation for Excellence in Education accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Goldin Foundation for Excellence in Education?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Goldin Foundation for Excellence in Education based?
Goldin Foundation for Excellence in Education is based in MA.

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 50 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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