· Private foundation
Herman Goldman Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k54 grants · $237k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $378k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHN HART HUNTER EDUCATIONAL FNDN INC | $30,000 |
| BROADWAY CARES-EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC | $25,000 |
| BERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC | $25,000 |
| THE BRIDGE INC | $22,700 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $20,000 |
| HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES | $20,000 |
| LSNY BRONX CORPORATION | $20,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTCHESTER INC | $15,000 |
| NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $15,000 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC | $12,500 |
| BARRINGTON STAGE CO INC | $12,500 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER LONG ISLAND INC | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY MAINSTREAMING ASSOCIATES INC | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +2% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NYNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL2× · 2024–2025 · $52k · revenue +18%
- TBTHE BRIDGE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $51k · revenue +6%
HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- 2S2 SCHEDULE ATTACHED AUTHORIZED DURING FYE 22920one grant, 2020 · $873k
- 2S2 SCHEDULE ATTACHED AUTHORIZED DURING FYE 22823one grant, 2023 · $738k
- 2S2 SCHEDULE ATTACHED AUTHORIZED DURING FYE 22821one grant, 2021 · $729k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
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 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…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
96 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 96 of the 109 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds LSNY-BRONX CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds THE TLC FOUNDATION FOR BODY-FOCUSED REPETITIVE BEHAVIORS ↗
- Who funds HER JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds KIAWAH WOMENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Community Mainstreaming Associates Inc ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hall Center For The Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Herman Goldman Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc — 27% of income from government
- Stamford Senior Centerinc — 16% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Berkshire Theatre Group Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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