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Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Foundation Inc

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.

$3.1M
Granted FY2023
17
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

80% of Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Madison Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’20
11
’21
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’22
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’23
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’24
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’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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.

Philanthropy$6.3MEducation$3.3MReligion$2.6MHuman Services$2.6MHousing & Shelter$2.6MRecreation & Sports$751kFood & Nutrition$389kYouth Development$250kOther$0
02FY2023 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $266k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $751k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.1M
$60,700
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAYVIEW FOUNDATION$1,250,000
GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER$588,500
TEMPLE BETH EL$254,833
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$190,000
UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY$166,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON$109,800
JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES$107,543
ROOTED$66,500
MADISON PUBLIC PARKS FOUNDATION$60,700
MADISON AREA FOOD PANTRY GARDENS$50,000
HILLEL$41,000
BETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION$41,000
CHABAD HOUSE OF MADISON$41,000
YOUNG JEWISH PROFESSIONALS$41,000
CONGREGATION SHAAREI SHAMAYIM$41,000
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 (FY20–25, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MADISON AREA FOOD PANTRY GARDENS: $50k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $589k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $584k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $568k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $560k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO: $125k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO: $125k → 10%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 23 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
9

Total granted

$12M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+23%

Still filing today

57%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionReligionRecreation & SportsMembership BenefitOther
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

  • IA
    IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2.3M · revenue +80%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $880k · revenue +29%
  • CA
    CHABAD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $453k · revenue +136% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue +23% · 27% of their budget
  • MI
    MADISON ICE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $252k · revenue -2%
  • OF
    OPERATION FRESH START INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $140k · revenue +209%
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
Madison Professional Police Officers Association Inc

The madison professional police officers association represents law enforcement professionals who serve the city of madison, wisconsin, as either police officers, detectives, investigators, or sergeants.

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2
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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3
Renew Wisconsin Inc

Renew wisconsin leads and accelerates the transformation to wisconsin's renewable energy future through advocacy, education, and collaboration.

Environment
4
Madison Community Cooperative

Madison community cooperative's mission is to improve the madison community by providing low-cost, not-for-profit cooperative housing for very low to moderate income people and to be inclusive of underrepresented and marginalized groups.

Education
5
University Research Park Incorporated

The organization acquires, holds, administers, and distributes real and personal property for the benefit of the university of wisconsin (uw)-madison.

Education
6
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
7
Milwaukee Parks Foundation Inc

Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.

Environment
8
Madison Educational Assistance Fund

Meaf provides scholarships to area students for education expenses

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9
Madison Development Corporation

Madison development corporation (mdc)'s mission is to help create jobs by providing gap financing to small businesses and to develop and finance quality, affordable workforce housing units in madison and the dane county area.

Community Improvement
10
Downtown Madison Inc

Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.

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11
Madison Community Pool Corp

The madison community pool provides a quality seasonal recreational swimming facility for the members of the community.

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12
Madison Art Gallery
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Jewish Burial Association of Madison Inc. 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

25 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. 25 of the 38 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC: $2,500,000 · OtherBAYVIEW FOUNDATION INCCHABAD HOUSE OF MADISON: $957,719 · OtherCHABAD HOUSE OF MADISONUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $843,198 · OtherUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INCTEMPLE BETH EL: $502,200 · OtherTEMPLE BETH ELHILLEL: $397,200 · OtherHILLELJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES: $303,143 · OtherMAYSA (AFFILIATED) INC: $293,000 · Other+17 more: $1,330,187 · Other+17 moreMADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,050,000 · PhilanthropyMADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONMADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500,000 · EducationMADISON AREA TECHNI…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $880,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCO…UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $450,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNE…MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $306,650 · EducationMADISON PUBLIC LIBR…LITERACY NETWORK INC: $135,000 · Education+1 more: $3,500 · EducationIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2,301,021 · Human ServicesIRWIN A AND ROB…CENTRO HISPANO INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO HISPANO …+1 more: $50,000 · Human ServicesCHABAD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC: $452,976 · ReligionJEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC: $415,011 · ReligionMADISON ICE INC: $252,362 · Recreation & SportsROOTED WI INC: $181,500 · Environment
Other$7,126,647Philanthropy$5,050,000Education$3,275,150Human Services$2,601,021Religion$867,987Recreation & Sports$252,362Environment$181,500

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 budgetMADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,050,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetBAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC: $2,500,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2,301,021 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetMADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $880,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $843,198 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCHABAD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC: $452,976 over 4y, 32% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC: $415,011 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetMADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $306,650 over 3y, 14% of budgetMAYSA (AFFILIATED) INC: $293,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetMADISON ICE INC: $252,362 over 1y, 19% of budgetCENTRO HISPANO INC: $250,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetROOTED WI INC: $181,500 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetJEWISH BURIAL ASSOCIATION OF MADISON INC: $173,968 over 3y, 44% of budgetOPERATION FRESH START INC: $140,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetLITERACY NETWORK INC: $135,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC: $102,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $68,077 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMadison Area Food Pantry Gardens: $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetMADISON PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $45,487 over 1y, 22% of budgetMADISON READING PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON ROTARY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Madison Community Fou…Madison Gas and Elect…The Evjue Foundation …United Way of Dane Co…Alliant Energy Founda…Green Bay Packers Fou…Endres Manufacturing …Trustage Foundation I…The Roots and Wings F…Ascendium Education S…The Oscar Rennebohm F…John J Frautschi Fami…
Madison Community FoundationWI40.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc · John J Frautschi Family 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 Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Foundation Inc 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 38 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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