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Robert I Goldman 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.

$525k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
39%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$220,000
Organizations funded a year
23 to 31
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$14M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 39% of the organizations Robert I Goldman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$525k14%
FY202323$185k39%
FY202231$800k19%
FY202127$678k7%
FY202026$643kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Youth Development$905kRecreation & Sports$660kArts & Culture$424kEducation$354kHealth$244kFood & Nutrition$109kAnimals$73kPhilanthropy$35kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
KS
TN
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($836k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Robert I Goldman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys & Girls Club of Pbc: $870,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPolo Training Foundation: $280,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetAmerican Repertory Theatre Co Inc: $148,750 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Valley Hospital Foundation: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPrincess Grace Foundation - USA: $75,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetPhilharmonia Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetWork to Ride Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSunset Polo International Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBarrington Stage Company Inc: $25,815 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGod's Love We Deliver Inc: $23,014 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York City Bird Alliance Inc: $22,850 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Great Rivers-Missouri: $22,814 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Greater New York Inc: $22,814 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe King's Academy Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Network Inc: $18,389 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation: $15,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPolo Players Support Group Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $14,215 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Inc: $14,214 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $14,214 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Shakespeare Festival: $12,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $11,425 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSteven K and Winifred a Grinspoon Hillel Center for Jewish Community: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc: $4,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Corporation: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY12.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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Find your warmest path to Robert I 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.

About Robert I Goldman Foundation

How much does Robert I Goldman Foundation give?
Robert I Goldman Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $525,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Robert I Goldman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (32%), Recreation & Sports (23%), Arts & Culture (15%).
Who are Robert I Goldman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Boys & Girls Club of Pbc ($870k), Polo Training Foundation ($280k), American Repertory Theatre Co Inc ($149k).
Does Robert I Goldman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert I Goldman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Robert I Goldman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
Where is Robert I Goldman Foundation based?
Robert I Goldman Foundation is based in NY.

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 47 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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