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Goodman Family Fund at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$110kPhilanthropy$71kArts & Culture$36kYouth Development$20kHuman Services$16kHealth$8kCrime & Legal$3kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$345k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVANS SCHOLAR FOUNDATION$12,500
RAVINIA FESTIVAL$12,500
HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,250
KIWANIS FOUNDATION$5,000
FAMILY FOCUS HIGHLAND PARK$3,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
CHARLOTTE JEWSIH DAY SCHOOL$1,000
HELPING HANDS NETWORK INC$775
THE ART CENTER HIGHLAND PARK$700
COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES$500
THE NORA PROJECT$500
NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID$500
GPF FOUNDATION$250
FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL$250
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HONOR FLIGHT CHICAGO: $50 → 14%SGA YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $100 → 14%SGA YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $100 → 14%SGA YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $100 → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $250 → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $100 → 14%TRI-CON CHILD CARE CENTER: $500 → 8%TRI-CON CHILD CARE CENTER: $250 → 8%TRI-CON CHILD CARE CENTER: $250 → 8%TRI-CON CHILD CARE CENTER: $250 → 8%TRI-CON CHILD CARE CENTER: $100 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
IA
IN
CA
CO
VA
MD
KS
NC
DC
OK
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$189k · 24 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
45

Total granted

$189k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+19%

Still filing today

58%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +23%
  • CB
    COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +12%
  • LC
    LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER
    4× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +153%

Funded once

  • AA
    ASPEN ACADEMY
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • HP
    HIGHLAND PARK SISTER CITIES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • WA
    WISCONSIN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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.

1
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
3
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
4
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
5
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
6
Loyola University of Chicago

We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.

Education
7
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
8
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
Chapin Hall Center for Children

Chapin hall's mission is to improve the well-being of children and youth, families, and their communities through broad-perspective policy research.

Human Services
11
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
12
Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc; the most unlike its peers is Veterans of Foreign Wars. 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, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 82 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
32/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EVANS SCHOLAR FOUNDATION: $90,300 · OtherEVANS SCHOLAR FOUNDATIONKIWANIS CLUB OF EVANSTON: $20,150 · OtherKIWANIS CLUB OF EVANSTONKIWANIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherKIWANIS FOUNDATIONASPEN ACADEMY: $10,000 · OtherASPEN ACADEMYFAMILY FOCUS HIGHLAND PARK: $6,400 · Other+52 more: $26,858 · Other+52 moreHighland Park Community Foundation: $59,300 · PhilanthropyHighland Park Community F…+2 more: $1,150 · PhilanthropyRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA FESTIV…THE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK: $3,950 · Arts & CultureTHE ART CENTER…+2 more: $350 · Arts & CultureCOLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES: $7,600 · Education+4 more: $850 · EducationGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $850 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $500 · HealthRonald McDonald House Global: $300 · HealthCANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $200 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $200 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 · HealthResidential Services Inc: $100 · HealthHELPING HANDS NETWORK INC: $2,075 · Youth DevelopmentREADING POWER INC: $100 · Youth DevelopmentTRI-CON CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $1,350 · Human ServicesJewish Child and Family Services: $350 · Human ServicesSGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NFP: $300 · Human Services+1 more: $50 · Human Services
Other$163,708Philanthropy$60,450Arts & Culture$34,300Education$8,450Health$2,250Youth Development$2,175Human Services$2,050

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHighland Park Community Foundation: $59,300 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES: $7,600 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER: $4,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK: $3,950 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NORA PROJECT: $3,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING HANDS NETWORK INC: $2,075 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTRI-CON CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $1,350 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION: $950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHBUILD LAKE COUNTY INC: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NFP: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGPF FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFrancis W Parker School: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLevy Senior Center Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $225 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUTSIDE IN: $108 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED PAW PROJECT: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation): $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PILGRIM CHAMBER PLAYERS: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKESHET: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResidential Services Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS: $100 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetREADING POWER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHonor Flight Chicago Corp: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Highland Park Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK ↗
  • Who funds THE NORA PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HANDS NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds TRI-CON CHILD CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHBUILD LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Child and Family Services ↗
  • Who funds SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NFP ↗
  • Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗

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 Federation of …First Bank Chicago Fo…Highland Park Communi…YEA Highland Park IncLeon and Sharon Kaufm…James and Lesley Anix…Sam I Am FoundationSt Andrews FoundationHealthcare Foundation…Modestus Bauer Founda…Mills Family Charitab…Eleven Eleven Foundat…
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 33%
  • Outside in: 33% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 82 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home