· Private foundation
Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $606k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+5 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIT | $1,000,000 |
| THE JEWISH CLIMATE TRUST | $1,000,000 |
| AABGU | $1,000,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $350,000 |
| CENTER FOR NEW AMERICAN SECURITY | $300,000 |
| THE WHITNEY MUSEUM | $232,500 |
| TURNOUT ACTIVISM | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES | $148,140 |
| JCC OF MANHATTAN | $125,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $100,000 |
| NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND | $100,000 |
| YELLOW DOT STUDIOS | $100,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $581k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
110 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 22 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
EARTHJUSTICE4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +49%- CFCenter for a New American Security Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +12%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC6× · 2018–2024 · $848k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- SFSEARCH FOR COMMON GROUNDone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +15%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -4%
- NRNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
(see schedule o)
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jewish Climate Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Penumbra Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
216 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 216 of the 336 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Center for a New American Security Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH CLIMATE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TURNOUT ACTIVISM INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds THE NISKANEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND ↗
- Who funds THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC ↗
- Who funds LONGHOUSE RESERVE ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds TARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOW DOT STUDIOS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ECOAMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Morton H Meyerson Family Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Russell Berrie Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Fjc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- EcoHealth Alliance Inc — 24% of income from government
- VertueLab — 12% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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