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Howard M & Deborah S Goodman Charitable Trust Dated 12/17/2007 at a glance

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Howard M & Deborah S Goodman Charitable Trust Dated 12/17/2007

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.

$51k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% 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$86kCivil Rights$45kEducation$37kReligion$28kPublic Safety & Disaster$22kPhilanthropy$19kHealth$15kInternational$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$997k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY$5,000
THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$5,000
92ND STREET Y$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$3,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION$3,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$3,000
VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATRE INC$2,500
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC$2,500
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$2,000
WILLIAMS COLLEGE$2,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$2,000
US FRIENDS OF THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 8%WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 8%WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 8%THE BRIDGID ALLIANCE: $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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$276k · 27 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
1

Total granted

$276k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+42%

Still filing today

74%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalCivil RightsEducationHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +11%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +21%
  • TN
    THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +42%
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
9
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
10
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
11
The Paley Center for Media

Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…

Arts & Culture
12
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Aurora Theatre Company: $30,000 · Arts & CultureThe Aurora Theatre CompanyAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $11,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUMNew York Historical Society: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical SocietyMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $6,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGNATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY: $6,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTIC THEATER COMPANYTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $4,500 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC …MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $3,648 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUS FRIENDS OF THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST: $10,000 · OtherUS FRIENDS OF THE DAVID SHELDRIC…JDC: $7,500 · OtherJDCMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $7,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATE…UC BERKELEY: $7,000 · OtherUC BERKELEYSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $16,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $7,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF…WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 · OtherWIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INCFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5,000 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY+4 more: $8,500 · Other+4 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $22,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIE…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $2,500 · InternationalThe American …AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CI…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $13,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMA…THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $27,500 · ReligionTHE YOUNG …THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $19,000 · PhilanthropyWilliams College: $7,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $4,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$83,148Other$83,500International$34,500Civil Rights$29,000Religion$27,500Philanthropy$19,000Education$18,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Aurora Theatre Company: $30,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $19,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $3,648 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW PLAZA CINEMA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $2,000 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.

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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 Howard M & Deborah S Goodman Charitable Trust Dated 12/17/2007 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard M & Deborah S Goodman Charitable Trust Dated 12/17/2007. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Howard M & Deborah S Goodman Charitable Trust Dated 12/17/2007 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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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