· Private foundation
Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $606k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+5 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JEWISH CLIMATE TRUST | $1,000,000 |
| AABGU | $1,000,000 |
| MIT | $1,000,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $350,000 |
| CENTER FOR NEW AMERICAN SECURITY | $300,000 |
| THE WHITNEY MUSEUM | $232,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| TURNOUT ACTIVISM | $200,000 |
| HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES | $148,140 |
| JCC OF MANHATTAN | $125,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND | $100,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION | $100,000 |
| YELLOW DOT STUDIOS | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
EARTHJUSTICE4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +49%- CFCenter for a New American Security Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +73%
- 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%
- NRNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k
- TATARGET ALS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -58%
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.
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…
How this is measured
216 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. 216 of the 336 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 TARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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