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Maurice Goodman Foundation Inc Tr

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.

$174k
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$201kArts & Culture$164kReligion$126kHousing & Shelter$85kPhilanthropy$75kFood & Nutrition$74kHealth$46kHuman Services$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k44 grants · $117k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $57k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORWALK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$17,000
TEMPLE SHALOM (OF NORWALK)$10,000
CONGREGATION BETH EL$10,000
NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,000
THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC$10,000
FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY$9,500
LOCKWOOD-MATHEWS MANSION MUSEUM$7,500
PERSON TO PERSON INC$7,000
THE NORWALK SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC$7,000
THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC$6,500
UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN$5,000
NORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATION$5,000
AMERICARES FOUNDATION$4,500
FRIENDS OF THE WILTON LIBRARY$4,000
PARENT TEACHER ASSOC OF CT INC$4,000
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, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $3k → 14%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER INC: $2k → 9%ELDERHOUSE INC: $2k → 9%ELDERHOUSE INC: $2k → 9%ELDERHOUSE INC: $2k → 9%ELDERHOUSE INC: $2k → 9%ELDERHOUSE INC: $2k → 9%ELDERHOUSE INC: $2k → 9%STAR INC LIGHTING THE WAY: $500 → 9%STAR INC LIGHTING THE WAY: $500 → 9%STAR INC LIGHTING THE WAY: $500 → 9%STAR INC LIGHTING THE WAY: $500 → 9%STAR INC LIGHTING THE WAY: $500 → 9%STAR INC LIGHTING THE WAY: $500 → 9%THE CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $3k → 9%THE CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $3k → 9%THE CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $2k → 9%THE CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $2k → 9%THE CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $2k → 9%THE CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $2k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER INC: $2k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER INC: $2k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER INC: $2k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER INC: $2k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER INC: $2k → 9%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$869k · 47 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
4

Total granted

$869k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+3%

Still filing today

72%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • TO
    THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +71%
  • NP
    NORWALK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $59k · revenue +144%
  • LM
    LOCKWOOD-MATHEWS MANSION MUSEUM OF NORWALK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +996%

Funded once

  • WS
    WILKERSON SCHOLARSHIP FUND LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -99% · 100% of their budget
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +3%
  • TF
    THE FRIENDS OF NORWALK
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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
Norwalk Harbor Keeper
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2
Norwalk Historical Society Inc

To maintain the research, preservation and promotion of norwalk history.

Arts & Culture
3
Norwalk Community Health Center

To provide quality, innovative care that enriches the lives of our patients.

Health
4
Norfolk Land Trust Inc

TO ENCOURAGE THE PRESERVATION OF OPEN SPACE IN NORFOLK, CT AND surrounding communities FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND TO SERVE AS A VEHICLE FOR managing and maintaining LAND THAT HAS BEEN SET ASIDE FOR OPEN SPACE PURPOSES: (1) Land easements,…

Environment
5
Norwalk River Watershed Association Inc

To protect water quality and wildlife habitat in the seven-town Norwalk River Watershed

Environment
6
Norfolk Library Inc

Free Public Library serving the Town of Norfolk Connecticut as well as the surrounding area.

Education
7
Northeast Greenwich Association Incorporated

The purpose of the association is to provide for the protection and general welfare of the residents and owners of real property in the northeastern section of greenwich, connecticut, including the preservation of the residential character…

Community Improvement
8
Greater Norwalk Chamber of Commerce Inc

Promotion and support of commercial & civic awareness and activities in the greater norwalk area.

Community Improvement
9
Friends of Nathaniel Witherell Inc

Friends of nathaniel witherell is a not-for-profit organization committed to raising funds in support of the nathaniel witherell, the skilled nursing and short term rehabilitation center owned and operated by the town of greenwich, ct and…

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Northeast Medical Group Inc

To render medical treatment to patients without regard to ability to pay for such treatment, and to promote a high quality of medical care and other services for the benefit of all persons in the communities it serves.

—
11
The North Shore Land Alliance Inc

To conserve and steward long island's natural and historic lands, waters and environmental resources. through education, outreach and volunteerism, we connect people to nature and inspire a community conservation ethic.

Environment
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Americares Free Clinics Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wilkerson Scholarship Fund Llc. 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

42 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. 42 of the 59 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
29/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE SHALOM (OF NORWALK): $60,000 · OtherTEMPLE SHALOM (OF NORWALK)CONGREGATION BETH EL (OF NORWALK): $40,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH EL (OF NORWALK)FRIENDS OF THE WILTON LIBRARY: $24,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE WILTON LIBRARYCONGREGATION BETH EL: $20,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $20,000 · OtherNORWALK LAND TRUST INC: $15,000 · OtherNORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherNORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATION INCCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC: $15,100 · Other+29 more: $178,300 · Other+29 moreLOCKWOOD-MATHEWS MANSION MUSEUM OF NORWALK INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureLOCKWOOD-MATHEWS MANSI…THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC: $38,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM …The Norwalk Symphony Society Inc: $35,000 · Arts & CultureThe Norwalk Symphony S…FRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC: $16,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM…JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE: $12,500 · Arts & CultureJEWISH EDUCATION IN ME…STEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureSTEPPING STONES MUSEUM…NORWALK SEAPORT ASSOCIATION INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureNORWALK SEAPORT ASSOCI…+4 more: $9,000 · Arts & CultureNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · EducationNORWALK COMMUNIT…NORWALK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $58,500 · EducationNORWALK PUBLIC L…COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL OF WILTON INC: $4,500 · Education+2 more: $5,500 · EducationTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $52,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC: $22,500 · HealthNorwalk Hospital Foundation: $20,000 · HealthPERSON TO PERSON INC: $37,000 · PhilanthropyWILKERSON SCHOLARSHIP FUND LLC: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$397,400Arts & Culture$178,500Education$128,500Housing & Shelter$60,000Food & Nutrition$52,000Health$42,500Philanthropy$39,500

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 budgetNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNORWALK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $58,500 over 6y, 17% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $52,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLOCKWOOD-MATHEWS MANSION MUSEUM OF NORWALK INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC: $38,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC: $37,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Norwalk Symphony Society Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetNORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNorwalk Hospital Foundation: $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC: $16,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC: $15,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORWALK LAND TRUST INC: $15,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORWALK SEAPORT ASSOCIATION INC: $11,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetTHE CARVER INC: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetELDERHOUSE INC: $9,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNORWALK TREE ALLIANCE: $7,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGirl Scouts of Connecticut Inc: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORWALK COMMUNITY BENEFIT FUND INC: $6,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetFriends of the Norwalk River Valley Trail Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNORWALK SENIOR CENTER INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL OF WILTON INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSOUNDWATERS INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSILVERMINE GUILD OF ARTISTS INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTAR INC - LIGHTING THE WAY: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARCHING BEARS INC: $3,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILKERSON SCHOLARSHIP FUND LLC: $2,500 over 1y, 100% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRYSTAL THEATRE INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC: $1,800 over 4y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NORWALK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds LOCKWOOD-MATHEWS MANSION MUSEUM OF NORWALK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC ↗
  • Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
  • Who funds The Norwalk Symphony Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC ↗
  • Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds NORWALK LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds STEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NORWALK SEAPORT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
  • Who funds ELDERHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORWALK TREE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORWALK COMMUNITY BENEFIT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of the Norwalk River Valley Trail Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORWALK SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗

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.

Fairfield County's Co…New Canaan Community …Newman's Own Foundati…The Near and Far Asso…The Scripps Family Fu…The Pitney Bowes Foun…Connecticut Humanitie…Eversource Energy Fou…Synchrony FoundationIbm International Fou…Young Mens Christian …Konstantin Family Fou…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT38.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Young Mens Christian Association of Westport/Weston Ct Inc · Konstantin Family 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 Maurice Goodman Foundation Inc Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maurice Goodman Foundation Inc Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Star Inc - Lighting the Way: 88% of income from government
  • Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum of Norwalk Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Aspetuck Land Trust: 28% of income from government
  • Connecticut Legal Services Inc: 18% of income from government
  • The Carver Inc: 16% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
  • The Norwalk Symphony Society Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Crisis Center: 10% of income from government
  • Friends of Ambler Farm Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Soundwaters Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Crystal Theatre Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Jewish Family Service of Stamford Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Silvermine Guild of Artists Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 59 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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