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Perry & Donna Golkin Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$5.5MArts & Culture$2.1MRecreation & Sports$1.4MEmployment$410kPublic Benefit$375kCommunity Improvement$279kHuman Services$163kFood & Nutrition$117kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $632k
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.4M
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLGATE UNIVERSITY$350,000
ACHILLES INTERNATIONAL$300,000
THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY$250,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$250,000
DONORSCHOOSEORG$250,000
THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY PENNSYLVANIA$165,000
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER$121,750
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$100,000
GIRLS WHO INVEST INC$100,000
COMMON GOOD$75,000
VENTURE FOR AMERICA INC$70,000
CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES$25,000
INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND$18,300
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC$15,000
RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL$10,000
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 (FY19–24, $13k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $5k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $5k → 17%SEARCH & CARE: $1k → 17%SEARCH AND CARE: $1k → 17%SEARCH AND CARE: $500 → 17%SEARCH AND CARE: $500 → 17%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

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AR
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.3M · 45 repeat orgs$995k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
39

Total granted

$8.3M
$920k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+14%

Still filing today

76%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionHealthOther

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

  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +1%
  • CU
    COLGATE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +60%
  • AI
    Achilles International Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $323k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $250k
  • TC
    THE COMMON GOOD INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $85k · revenue +123%

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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
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
3
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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4
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
9
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Visions for Public Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Military Veterans SupportFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Domestic Violence ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsEquine Therapy ProgramsHealth Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyFood Banks and PantriesPublic Library Operations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%35%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/59
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,701

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

59 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 94 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
39/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DONORSCHOOSEORG — $1,300,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $1,288,648 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIACOLGATE UNIVERSITY — $1,110,000 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITY+11 more — $245,700 · Education+11 moreAchilles International Inc — $1,000,500 · OtherAchilles International IncINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $826,600 · OtherINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCTHE COMMON GOOD FORUM INC — $375,000 · OtherTHE COMMON GOOD FORUM INCUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL — $322,684 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHO…UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SCHOOL — $250,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL …+57 more — $589,730 · Other+57 moreTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC — $1,250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCI…JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $860,220 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER…+2 more — $2,250 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $375,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $1,250 · Recreation & SportsGIRLS WHO INVEST INC — $375,000 · EmploymentVENTURE FOR AMERICA INC — $230,000 · Community ImprovementCARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC — $21,500 · Community ImprovementNEW PROFIT INC — $10,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $5,000 · Community ImprovementGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $109,500 · PhilanthropyREDF — $25,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyOUR MILITARY KIDS INC — $10,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $8,250 · Philanthropy
Education$3,944,348Other$3,364,514Arts & Culture$2,112,470Recreation & Sports$376,250Employment$375,000Community Improvement$266,500Philanthropy$177,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $1,300,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $1,288,648 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC — $1,250,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY — $1,110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAchilles International Inc — $1,000,500 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $860,220 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $826,600 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $375,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMON GOOD FORUM INC — $375,000 over 4y, 82% of budgetGIRLS WHO INVEST INC — $375,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetVENTURE FOR AMERICA INC — $230,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $109,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMON GOOD INSTITUTE INC — $85,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY — $78,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC — $50,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREDF — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC — $21,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetRESTORE NYC INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $16,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPENCE SCHOOL — $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUNKER LABS NFP INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOUR MILITARY KIDS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK CHILDREN'S DAY SCHOOL — $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetSEARCH AND CARE INC — $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE MIGHTY EIGHTH AIR FORCE INC — $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMYLESTONE EQUINE RESCUE — $2,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $2,000 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.

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The New York Communit…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Chubb Charitable Foun…Jewish Communal FundCharities Aid Foundat…The Ayco Charitable F…Vanguard Charitable E…American Express Foun…Baird Foundation Inc
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY19.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Express Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc

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 Perry & Donna Golkin Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Perry & Donna Golkin Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Perry & Donna Golkin 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.

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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 94 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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