Delaware · Private foundation
Herman Goldman Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $655k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 84
- Grants FY2026
- 75
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 79
- FY2020 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 11
- Total assets, FY2026
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 28% of the organizations Herman Goldman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 79 | $646k | 16% |
| FY2025 | 75 | $582k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 79 | $606k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $1.0M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $1.2M | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $729k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $1.1M | 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 FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc | $80,500 | 3 | 0% |
| New York Shakespeare Festival | $78,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Berkshire Theatre Group Inc | $76,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Bridge Inc | $70,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Lsny-Bronx Corporation | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hobart and William Smith Colleges | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $39,600 | 3 | 0% |
| The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc | $38,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Dickinson College | $32,500 | 3 | 0% |
| National Jewish Health | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 107 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Herman Goldman 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.
Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Helen Matchett Demario Foundation Inc · Henry L Kimelman Family Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Herman Goldman Foundation
- How much does Herman Goldman Foundation give?
- Herman Goldman Foundation reported 84 grants totaling $655,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 79 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.
- What does Herman Goldman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (84%), Health (5%), Education (4%).
- Who are Herman Goldman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc ($81k), New York Shakespeare Festival ($78k), Berkshire Theatre Group Inc ($76k).
- Does Herman Goldman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Herman Goldman Foundation 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 Herman Goldman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Jewish Communal Fund, The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc.
- Where is Herman Goldman Foundation based?
- Herman Goldman Foundation is based in DE.
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