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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 FY2026still arriving
84
Grants FY2026still arriving
11
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$4.8MHealth$307kEducation$244kHuman Services$62kCrime & Legal$61kInternational$55kHousing & Shelter$35kEnvironment$27kOther$0
02FY2026 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k59 grants · $278k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $377k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHN HART HUNTER EDUCATIONAL FNDN INC$30,000
BERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC$28,500
BROADWAY CARES-EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC$25,000
VOLUNTEERS OF LEGAL SERVICE INC$25,000
LONG ISLAND CARES INC$25,000
LSNY BRONX CORPORATION$20,000
THE BRIDGE INC$19,700
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$15,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTCHESTER INC$15,000
NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$15,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC$14,500
BARRINGTON STAGE CO INC$12,500
PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK INC$12,000
COLUMBIA-GREENE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC$10,000
VASSAR COLLEGE$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY24–26, $181k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%THE SAFE CENTER LI INC: $8k → 6%ADOLPH AND ROSE LEVIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY MAINSTREAMING ASSOCIATES INC: $10k → 6%REBUILDING TOGETHER LONG ISLAND INC: $10k → 7%COMMUNITY MAINSTREAMING ASSOCIATES INC: $5k → 6%REBUILDING TOGETHER LONG ISLAND INC: $10k → 7%REBUILDING TOGETHER LONG ISLAND INC: $5k → 7%BLOOMAGAINBKLYN: $5k → 20%BLOOMAGAINBKLYN: $5k → 20%STAMFORD SENIOR CENTER INC: $3k → 9%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $25k → 7%HEARTS AND HOMES FOR REFUGEES: $5k → 9%FURNITURE SHAREHOUSE INC: $5k → 9%THE BRIDGE INC: $28k → 17%THE BRIDGE INC: $23k → 17%THE BRIDGE INC: $20k → 17%DOROT INC: $2k → 17%DOROT INC: $2k → 17%DOROT INC: $2k → 17%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

VT
NH
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
SC
DC
FL
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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 74 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

74 repeat relationships: 66 still active in FY2026, 8 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
32

Total granted

$2.6M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

89%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • BC
    BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC
    3× · 2024–2026 · $81k · revenue +14%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    3× · 2024–2026 · $78k · revenue +18%
  • TB
    THE BRIDGE INC
    3× · 2024–2026 · $70k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • 2S
    2 SCHEDULE ATTACHED AUTHORIZED DURING FYE 22920
    one grant, 2020 · $873k
  • 2S
    2 SCHEDULE ATTACHED AUTHORIZED DURING FYE 22823
    one grant, 2023 · $738k
  • 2S
    2 SCHEDULE ATTACHED AUTHORIZED DURING FYE 22821
    one grant, 2021 · $729k
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
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
5
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
6
New York University

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.

Education
7
Fordham University

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.

Education
8
The Baruch College Fund

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.

Education
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
11
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
12
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for the City of New York Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

109 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 109 of the 122 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/109
Grantees still filing
52/109
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

3 SCHEDULE ATTACHED PAYABLE AS AT 22822: $1,045,500 · Other3 SCHEDULE ATTACHED PAYABLE AS AT 228222 SCHEDULE ATTACHED AUTHORIZED DURING FYE 22920: $872,800 · Other2 SCHEDULE ATTACHED AUTHORIZED DURING FYE 229202 SCHEDULE ATTACHED AUTHORIZED DURING FYE 22823: $737,500 · Other2 SCHEDULE ATTACHED AUTHORIZED DURING FYE 228232 SCHEDULE ATTACHED AUTHORIZED DURING FYE 22821: $729,000 · Other2 SCHEDULE ATTACHED AUTHORIZED DURING FYE 228212 SCHEDULE ATTACHED AUTHORIZED DURING FYE 22822: $426,900 · Other2 SCHEDULE ATTACHED AUTHORIZED DURING FYE 228221 SCHEDULE ATTACHED PAYABLE AS AT 22819: $245,900 · Other1 SCHEDULE ATTACHED PAYABLE AS AT 22819+36 more: $539,750 · Other+36 moreLSNY-BRONX CORPORATION: $60,000 · EducationHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $40,000 · EducationDICKINSON COLLEGE: $32,500 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $30,000 · EducationBucknell University: $30,000 · EducationBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC: $25,000 · EducationWilliams College: $22,500 · EducationHER JUSTICE INC: $22,500 · EducationKIAWAH WOMENS FOUNDATION: $22,500 · EducationFairfield University: $17,500 · EducationTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $15,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC: $15,000 · EducationTOURO UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationMINETTE GROSSO MCKENNA FOUNDATION INC MINETTES ANGELS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Education+6 more: $59,000 · EducationNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $78,000 · Arts & CultureBERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC: $76,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $38,000 · Arts & CultureSIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $24,000 · Arts & CultureMemorial Hall Center For The Arts Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureGINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP: $17,500 · Arts & CultureALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+18 more: $123,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $30,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $30,000 · HealthEARLY ALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · HealthRaynaud's Association Inc: $15,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $10,500 · HealthCALVARY HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 · HealthJBI INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · HealthHUNTINGTON HOSPITAL DOLAN FAMILY HEALTH CEN d/b/a Northwell Health Family Health Center a: $9,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $7,850 · Health+4 more: $15,000 · HealthTHE BRIDGE INC: $70,400 · Human ServicesLong Island Cares Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesREBUILDING TOGETHER LONG ISLAND INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Mainstreaming Associates Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesBLOOMAGAINBKLYN INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesADOLPH & ROSE LEVIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesThe Safe Center LI Inc: $7,500 · Human Services+4 more: $18,400 · Human ServicesMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $39,600 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND: $20,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · InternationalHUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTCHESTER INC: $30,000 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation Society: $7,000 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC: $5,000 · AnimalsSTATEN ISLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $4,000 · Animals
Other$4,597,350Education$436,500Arts & Culture$432,000Health$184,850Human Services$181,300International$64,600Animals$46,000

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 budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $80,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $78,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC: $76,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BRIDGE INC: $70,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLSNY-BRONX CORPORATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $39,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $38,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE: $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT FUND INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTCHESTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER LONG ISLAND INC: $25,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHER JUSTICE INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKIAWAH WOMENS FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetMemorial Hall Center For The Arts Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP: $17,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetEARLY ALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $16,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SYMPHONY SPACE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRaynaud's Association Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetTHE TLC FOUNDATION FOR BODY-FOCUSED REPETITIVE BEHAVIORS: $15,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCommunity Mainstreaming Associates Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJOHN TAYLOR BABBITT FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTOURO UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINETTE GROSSO MCKENNA FOUNDATION INC MINETTES ANGELS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK - OTTORINO RESPIGHI: $13,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NOBLE MARITIME COLLECTION: $12,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $11,000 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.

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.

The New York Community TrustNY25.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Herman Goldman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herman Goldman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Herman Goldman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Herman Goldman Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 122 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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