Illinois · Private foundation
Goodman Family Fund
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.
- $46k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 31
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $345k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Goodman Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $41k | 55% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $48k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $42k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $38k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $29k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $18k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ravinia Festival Association | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| College Bound Opportunities | $7,600 | 6 | 0% |
| Lake County Crisis Center | $4,750 | 4 | 0% |
| The Art Center of Highland Park | $3,950 | 5 | 0% |
| The Nora Project | $3,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Helping Hands Network Inc | $2,075 | 2 | 1% |
| Tri-Con Child Care Center Inc | $1,350 | 5 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Children's Heart Foundation | $950 | 1 | 0% |
| Glaucoma Research Foundation | $850 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($150k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Goodman Family Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Highland Park Community Foundation · YEA Highland Park Inc · Leon and Sharon Kaufman Foundation · James and Lesley Anixter Foundation · Sam I Am Foundation · St Andrews Foundation · Healthcare Foundation of Highland Park · Modestus Bauer Foundation · Mills Family Charitable Foundation · Eleven Eleven Foundation
How this is measured
About Goodman Family Fund
- How much does Goodman Family Fund give?
- Goodman Family Fund reported 23 grants totaling $45,925 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Goodman Family Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Philanthropy (26%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are Goodman Family Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Ravinia Festival Association ($30k), College Bound Opportunities ($8k), Lake County Crisis Center ($5k).
- Does Goodman Family Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Goodman Family Fund 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 Goodman Family Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, First Bank Chicago Foundation, Highland Park Community Foundation.
- Where is Goodman Family Fund based?
- Goodman Family Fund is based in IL.
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