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Lori and Robert Goodman Family Foundation

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.

$608k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
20%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 13
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$13M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Lori and Robert Goodman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesInternationalHealthEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$608k15%
FY202410$543k20%
FY20238$555k100%
FY20228$355k75%
FY20217$368k57%
FY202013$292kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$558kArts & Culture$350kReligion$240kCivil Rights$235kHealth$185kHousing & Shelter$155kCrime & Legal$125kEnvironment$80kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish Agency for Israel - North American Council$750,00031%
Holocaust Museum La$200,00021%
The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles$200,00030%
Anti-Defamation League$150,00030%
Bet Tzedek$125,00021%
Homeaid America Inc$100,00032%
Stephen S Wise Temple$80,0002n/a
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$80,00020%
Mothers2mothers United States Inc$75,00021%
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$75,00030%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($215k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lori and Robert Goodman Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Agency for Israel - North American Council: $750,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHolocaust Museum La: $200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles: $200,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBet Tzedek: $125,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHomeaid America Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetThe Center for Reproductive Rights Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMothers2mothers United States Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Joseph Center: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSafe Place for Youth Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWise Readers to Leaders: $50,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetThe Digdeep Right to Water Project: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetProtect Democracy Project: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles Lgbt Center: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $36,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSocial Justice Learning Institute: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNational Alliance on Mental Illness Greater Los Angeles Cty(Nami Glac): $30,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUnited Way Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA Place Called Home: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetClean Air Task Force Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWestcoast Sports Associates Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetFriends of United Hatzalah Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVoteriders: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLos Angeles Nomadic Division: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEtgar Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

California Community FoundationCA12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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Find your warmest path to Lori and Robert Goodman Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Lori and Robert Goodman Family Foundation

How much does Lori and Robert Goodman Family Foundation give?
Lori and Robert Goodman Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $608,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Lori and Robert Goodman Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (26%), Arts & Culture (16%), Religion (11%).
Who are Lori and Robert Goodman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Jewish Agency for Israel - North American Council ($750k), Holocaust Museum La ($200k), The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles ($200k).
Does Lori and Robert Goodman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lori and Robert Goodman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lori and Robert Goodman Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Lori and Robert Goodman Family Foundation based?
Lori and Robert Goodman Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 37 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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