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John and Marcia Goldman Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY$250,000
CONGREGATION EMANU-EL$250,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SF MARIN PENINSULA & SONOMA COUNTIES$250,000
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$250,000
ARTICLEGROUP ORG INC$225,000
FIND YOUR LIGHT FOUNDATION$200,000
IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER$200,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SF MARIN PENINSULA & SONOMA COUNTIES$156,000
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY$150,000
CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL$100,000
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 (FY24–24, $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 its 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
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

IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
CO
MO
DC
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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
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

  • 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 +160%

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%
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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

205 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. 205 of the 240 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)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
202/205
Grantees still filing
127/205
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 PER…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 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANU-EL: $500,000 · OtherODC: $375,000 · OtherPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $440,000 · OtherUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $400,000 · Other+94 more: $5,312,450 · Other+94 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+7 more: $205,000 · 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 & NutritionECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $50,000 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $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$9,497,700Philanthropy$2,046,000Education$1,671,721Food & Nutrition$930,000Human Services$925,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 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 budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND: $400,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $400,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMUTTVILLE: $300,000 over 2y, 1.5% 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 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 budgetPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS: $150,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFILOLI CENTER: $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE SERVICES: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercury Soul Inc: $120,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY AT STRYBING ARBORETUM: $110,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $110,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EXPLORATORIUM: $105,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH HOME AND SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE: $100,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNPOWER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS: $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREFED INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PRIMARY SCHOOL - EAST PALO ALTO: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 240 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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