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Neal and Marlene Goldman Foundation at a glance

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Neal and Marlene 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.

$161k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$392kHealth$327kPublic Benefit$134kScience & Tech$95kPhilanthropy$53kEducation$36kSocial Science$35kEnvironment$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $121k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IEAJAMES FISHER FOUNDATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
INDEPENDENT WOMENS' FOUNDATION$15,000
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION$15,000
NAMI COLLIER COUNTY$10,500
CENTER FOR RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN$10,000
STARABILITY FOUNDATION$10,000
BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
THE BECKET FUND FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY$10,000
STATE POLICE FOUNDATION$5,000
GIFT OF LIFE - MARROW REGISTRY$5,000
AUTISM COLLIER CHARTER SCHOOL$5,000
NEW YORK CIVIL RIGHTS COALITION$5,000
THE FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY$5,000
DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER$5,000
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 (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LET GROW INC: $5k → 17%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

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
AZ
NM
DC
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 22 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
15

Total granted

$1.2M
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+112%

Still filing today

77%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
Public BenefitCivil RightsEducationHealthSocial ScienceArts & CultureOther
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

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $244k · revenue +267%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $200k · revenue +0%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • BG
    BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCHgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +97%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
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
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
6
National Institute for Public Policy Inc

The institute works as a public education organization that focuses on a wide spectrum of rapidly evolving foreign policy and international issues.

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7
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
8
R Street Institute

The r street institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public-policy research organization ("think tank"). our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government. (continued on…

Education
9
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Inc

The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…

Education
10
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
11
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…

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12
Freedom Forum Institute Inc

The mission of the freedom forum institute is to champion the five freedoms of the first amendment through education and entertainment.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Government Accountability Inc; the most unlike its peers is Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Inc. 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

30 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. 30 of the 45 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
18/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $109,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $92,500 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENI…INDEPENDENT WOMENS' FOUNDATION: $52,500 · OtherINDEPENDENT WOMENS' FOUNDATIONFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · OtherFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INCCENTER FOR RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN: $27,500 · OtherIEAJAMES FISHER FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER: $20,000 · OtherFERONIA FORWARD LTD: $25,000 · Other+20 more: $113,600 · Other+20 moreFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $244,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL …New York Civil Rights Coalition Inc: $57,500 · Civil RightsNew York Civil Rights Coal…+1 more: $10,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT INC: $200,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR EDUCA…INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT: $25,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR EDUCA…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $640 · EducationMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $30,000 · Public BenefitBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $25,000 · Public BenefitTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $22,000 · Public BenefitFOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC: $15,000 · Public BenefitThe Becket Fund: $80,000 · Social ScienceFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $32,500 · HealthGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $8,000 · HealthTHE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$550,600Civil Rights$311,500Education$235,640Public Benefit$92,000Social Science$80,000Health$40,500Arts & Culture$30,000

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 budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $244,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT INC: $200,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $92,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Becket Fund: $80,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Civil Rights Coalition Inc: $57,500 over 8y, 14% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFERONIA FORWARD LTD: $25,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI Collier County Inc: $10,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTARABILITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BERGEN COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLET GROW INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRussian Children's Welfare Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $640 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $600 over 1y, 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.

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.

Donors Trust IncThe Lynde and Harry B…State Policy NetworkBeth and Ravenel Curr…Adolph Coors Foundati…Charles Koch Foundati…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Donors Trust IncVA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · State Policy Network · Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · Adolph Coors Foundation · Charles Koch Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get 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 · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Neal and Marlene Goldman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Neal and Marlene 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 45 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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