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John and Marcia Goldman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
123
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$1.7M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Health$6.4MYouth Development$4.5MEducation$3.7MArts & Culture$3.5MPhilanthropy$1.9MEnvironment$1.9MScience & Tech$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 123 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k55 grants · $907k
  • $50k–250k27 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+9 grants · $5.3M
$15,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$335M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENS HEALTH$1,655,000
EPACENTER$1,400,000
LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENS HEALTH$502,000
JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$500,000
CONGREGATION EMANU-EL$250,000
CONGREGATION EMANU-EL$250,000
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$250,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SF MARIN PENINSULA & SONOMA COUNTIES$250,000
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY$250,000
ARTICLEGROUP ORG INC$225,000
IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER$200,000
FIND YOUR LIGHT FOUNDATION$200,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SF MARIN PENINSULA & SONOMA COUNTIES$156,000
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY$150,000
BAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS$100,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $270k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $50k → 14%SUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $200k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $250 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
CO
MO
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$22M · 90 repeat orgs$5.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

90 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
101

Total granted

$22M
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+8%

Still filing today

89%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther

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

  • LP
    LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +8%
  • E
    EPACENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +28% · 70% of their budget
  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    2× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +22%
  • PC
    PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +3%
  • FC
    FILOLI CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +34%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
3
Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

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4
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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5
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
6
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
7
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
8
The Bar Association of San Francisco

The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…

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9
Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco

PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.

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10
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
11
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
12
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Glen Park Parent Teacher Organization. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%1%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr12%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%28%10–20yr19%33%20–35yr14%12%35–55yr12%23%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%3/209
the rest of the field
11%
7,276/64,019

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.

04the grantee network

205 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. 205 of the 240 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
202/205
Grantees still filing
126/205
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EPACENTER — $4,200,100 · Arts & CultureEPACENTERJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $1,065,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERF…CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $765,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCESILLUMINATE THE ARTS — $450,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $400,000 · Arts & Culture+28 more — $2,115,095 · Arts & Culture+28 moreLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $4,482,000 · HealthLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDAT…STANFORD HEALTH CARE — $500,000 · HealthSTANFORD HEALTH CARELUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $475,000 · HealthLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANC…+12 more — $600,066 · Health+12 moreUCSF School of Pharmacy — $1,964,000 · OtherUCSF School of PharmacyCenter for Carbon Renewal — $506,250 · OtherCenter for Carbon RenewalCONGREGATION EMANU-EL — $500,000 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANU-ELODC — $375,000 · OtherPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $440,000 · OtherUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION — $400,000 · Other+93 more — $5,157,450 · Other+93 moreAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $790,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $526,000 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley Community Foundation — $255,000 · PhilanthropyFIND YOUR LIGHT FOUNDATION — $200,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION — $70,000 · Philanthropy+8 more — $210,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $609,221 · EducationRAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $300,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $165,000 · EducationTHE PRIMARY SCHOOL - EAST PALO ALTO — $100,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO FRIENDS SCHOOL — $65,000 · Education+12 more — $432,500 · EducationCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND — $400,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $180,000 · Food & NutritionREFED INC — $100,000 · Food & NutritionProject Open Hand — $60,000 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $50,000 · Food & NutritionECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM — $50,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA — $35,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $55,000 · Food & NutritionGolden State Opportunity — $450,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER — $220,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50,000 · Human Services+11 more — $205,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$8,995,195Health$6,057,066Other$9,342,700Philanthropy$2,051,000Education$1,671,721Food & Nutrition$930,000Human Services$925,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $4,482,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetEPACENTER — $4,200,100 over 3y, 70% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $1,065,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $790,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $765,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $609,221 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $526,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTANFORD HEALTH CARE — $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $475,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGolden State Opportunity — $450,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetILLUMINATE THE ARTS — $450,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $440,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND — $400,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $400,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $255,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCURIODYSSEY — $240,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA — $225,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER — $220,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFIND YOUR LIGHT FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetMUTTVILLE — $200,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY — $190,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $180,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $165,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $160,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $150,066 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE SERVICES — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS — $150,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFILOLI CENTER — $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKQED INC — $126,345 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALL MENTAL HEALTH INC — $125,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetStern Grove Festival Association — $125,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMercury Soul Inc — $120,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $110,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY AT STRYBING ARBORETUM — $110,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE EXPLORATORIUM — $105,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE — $100,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTHE PRIMARY SCHOOL - EAST PALO ALTO — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetREFED INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNPOWER INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JEWISH HOME AND SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS — $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Community Fede…The San Francisco Fou…Gordon E and Betty I …Atkinson FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…The Sobrato Family Fo…The David and Lucile …The Palo Alto Communi…Sand Hill FoundationEast Bay Community Fo…Los Altos Mountain Vi…Marin Community Found…
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA66.7× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Sand Hill Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation

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 John and Marcia 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Silk Road Project Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to John and Marcia Goldman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to John and Marcia 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 240 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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