· Private foundation
Richard W Goldman 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS | $450,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $415,000 |
| MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST | $415,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $415,000 |
| START EARLY | $300,000 |
| THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND | $225,000 |
| PARENTCHILD | $200,000 |
| CENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY | $150,000 |
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES | $100,000 |
| PROSPERITY NOW | $100,000 |
| CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL POLICY | $100,000 |
| LIFT | $100,000 |
| MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| FAMILY VALUES WORK | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $4.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 31% of Richard W Goldman Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 20% of the giving stays in DC; read by stated purpose it is 16% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AFALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS FKA BIRTH TO FIVE POLICY ALLIANCE6× · 2019–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +36%
START EARLY6× · 2019–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +73%- PIPARENTCHILD INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +72%
Funded once
- VVVerified Voting Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +56%
- NANATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDRENone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +23%
- WHWOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER OF WEST VIRGINIA INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -33%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The center for american progress (cap) is an independent nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all americans through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action. our aim is…
The national perinatal information center (npic) is dedicated to the improvement of perinatal health through comparative data analysis, program evaluation, health services research and professional continuing education.
To support access to high-quality, affordable reproductive health care services.
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
Child care aware of minnesota was incorporated in 1992 to provide technical assistance, training and coordination for the child care resource and referral programs throughout minnesota, to collect data regarding the supply of and demand…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for the Study of Social Policy and the most unlike its peers is National Association for the Education of Young Children. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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. 31 of the 34 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds START EARLY ↗
- Who funds PARENTCHILD INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTERING HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITY NOW ↗
- Who funds LIFT INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILD TRENDS INC ↗
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- Who funds CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL POLICY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY ↗
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- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD FIRST INC ↗
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- Who funds BRIGHTER BEGINNINGS ↗
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- Who funds SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH LDRSHP ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
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- Who funds COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: WK Kellogg Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Alliance for Early Success Fka Birth to Five Policy Alliance · Pritzker Family Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Gates Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Ford Foundation
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 Richard W Goldman 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.
- Child Trends Inc — 50% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
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.
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