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Marvin and Nola Goldman 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.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$99kRecreation & Sports$8kHuman Services$3kPhilanthropy$1kEnvironment$660Religion$200Arts & Culture$150Animals$110Other$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100
Median grant
6
States reached
$150k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM$6,000
JEWISH FEDERATION$500
NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING CHILDRE$100
Individual grant recipient$100
ST JUDE CHILDRENS$100
KIDS WISH NETWORK$90
CLEAN WATER ACTION$60
AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER FOUNDATION$50
LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION$27
VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER ALLIANCE$25
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 (FY19–25, $596) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $35 → 6%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $237 → 11%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $112 → 11%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $90 → 11%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $47 → 11%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $25 → 11%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $25 → 11%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $25 → 11%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

MI
NY
IN
VA
TN
DC
GA
FL

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$109k · 12 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
12

Total granted

$109k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+50%

Still filing today

50%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • HF
    HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
    6× · 2020–2025 · $68k · revenue +48%
  • AS
    AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $253 · revenue +88%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    2× · 2017–2023 · $110 · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • PS
    PAWISITIVE STEPS LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $200
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $150

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
Animal Cancer Foundation

Animal cancer foundation is dedicated to finding new treatments and eventual cures for cancer by funding research in and increasing public awareness of comparative oncology, the study of naturally occurring, similar cancers in people and…

Health
2
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation

See schedule o.kff fills the need for trusted, independent information on national health issues through policy analysis, polling & survey research, and journalism. the hallmark of kff is our focus on how policy affects people. we believe…

Philanthropy
3
Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund

We passionately champion & advocate for evidence-based policies that protect children, improve health and save the most lives.

4
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
5
Frankies Fund for Feline Care and Rescue Inc
Animals
6
American Cancer Society Inc

Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

Health
7
Henry Ford Health System Foundation

The henry ford health system foundation (the foundation) is an affiliate of henry ford health system dba henry ford health ("hf health" ) serving the metropolitan detroit michigan communities. as an integrated component of one of the…

Health
8
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
9
Alternatives Research and Development Foundation

The mission of the ardf is to fund and promote the development, validation and adoption of non-animal methods in biomedical research, product testing, and education.

Animals
10
Jewish Federation of Detroit

The jewish federation of detroit is the cornerstone of our jewish community. we are committed to taking care of the needs of the jewish people and building a strong and vibrant jewish future, in detroit, in israel and around the world.

Philanthropy
11
Henry Ford Health Brighton Center for Recovery

As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related organization of the filing entity, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…

Health
12
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteer Firefighter Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM — $67,650 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM+1 more — $253 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSEM — $29,500 · OtherHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSEMLIVE LIKE MAX FOUNDATION — $8,325 · OtherLIVE LIKE MAX FOUNDATIONPAWISITIVE STEPS LLC — $2,400 · OtherPAWISITIVE STEPS LLC+15 more — $3,350 · Other+15 moreKIDS WISH NETWORK INC — $561 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $35 · Human ServicesUNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION — $200 · PhilanthropyTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $110 · AnimalsTHE BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST INC — $50 · Youth DevelopmentFRANKLIN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $50 · Arts & CultureVOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER ALLIANCE INC — $25 · Public Safety & Disaster
Health$67,903Other$43,575Human Services$596Philanthropy$200Animals$110Youth Development$50Arts & Culture$50Public Safety & Disaster$25

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM — $67,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE LIKE MAX FOUNDATION — $8,325 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetCLEAN WATER ACTION — $660 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS WISH NETWORK INC — $561 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER FOUNDATION INC — $253 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $110 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $35 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
  • Who funds LIVE LIKE MAX FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CLEAN WATER ACTION
  • Who funds KIDS WISH NETWORK INC
  • Who funds AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds THE BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST INC
  • Who funds FRANKLIN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER ALLIANCE INC

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Marvin and Nola 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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