California · Private foundation
Gordon Goldstein Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $44k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $434k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Gordon Goldstein Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 | 7 | $44k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $40k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $15k | 70% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $35k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $35k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $39k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $22k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $18k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congregation Bnai Israel | $55,700 | 9 | n/a |
| Teach Democracy | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Friends of Sacramento Arts | $27,500 | 5 | 6% |
| Edsource Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Elk Grove Community Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Sierra Nevada Journeys | $5,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Feeding Nations Through Education | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Holmdel Foundation for Educational Excellence Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
| California State Library Foundation | $1,250 | 3 | 0% |
| African Hope Fund Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congregation Bnai Israel | $55,700 | 9 | n/a |
| Teach Democracy | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Friends of Sacramento Arts | $27,500 | 5 | 6% |
| Edsource Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Elk Grove Community Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Sierra Nevada Journeys | $5,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Feeding Nations Through Education | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Holmdel Foundation for Educational Excellence Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
| California State Library Foundation | $1,250 | 3 | 0% |
| African Hope Fund Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sacramento History Alliance Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Chase Foundation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($106k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gordon Goldstein Foundation 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.
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How this is measured
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About Gordon Goldstein Foundation
- How much does Gordon Goldstein Foundation give?
- Gordon Goldstein Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $43,950 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gordon Goldstein Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Religion (22%), Arts & Culture (17%).
- Who are Gordon Goldstein Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Congregation Bnai Israel ($56k), Teach Democracy ($35k), Friends of Sacramento Arts ($28k).
- Does Gordon Goldstein Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gordon Goldstein Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gordon Goldstein Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Gordon Goldstein Foundation based?
- Gordon Goldstein Foundation is based in CA.
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