· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k59 grants · $278k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $377k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC3× · 2024–2026 · $81k · revenue +14%
- NYNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL3× · 2024–2026 · $78k · revenue +18%
- TBTHE BRIDGE INC3× · 2024–2026 · $70k · revenue +6%
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
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.
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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.
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).
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…
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.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds LSNY-BRONX CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF LEGAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Long Island Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds HER JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds KIAWAH WOMENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hall Center For The Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds GINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP ↗
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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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