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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $395k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $220,000 |
| THE MUSEUM OF POLO AND HALL OF FAME | $100,000 |
| POLO TRAINING FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| SUNSET POLO INTERNATIONAL | $35,000 |
| ISEF FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| KINGS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| POLO PLAYERS SUPPORT GROUP INC | $5,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $5,000 |
| THE MIAMI PROJECT TO CURE PARALYSIS | $5,000 |
| WORK TO RIDE INC | $5,000 |
| PALM BEACH COUNTY FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| ASCPA | $5,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 36% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC4× · 2020–2024 · $870k · revenue +67%
- PTPOLO TRAINING FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $280k · revenue +136%
AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC4× · 2020–2023 · $149k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- SKSTEVEN K AND WINIFRED A GRINSPOON HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH COMMUNITYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +28%
- PPPlanned Parenthood of Illinoisone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +1%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +8%
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Love We Deliver Inc and the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals Inc. 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 47 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 47 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.
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds POLO TRAINING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PHILHARMONIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORK TO RIDE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSET POLO INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Great Rivers-Missouri ↗
- Who funds THE KING'S ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Polo Players Support Group Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds STEVEN K AND WINIFRED A GRINSPOON HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
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: 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
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 Robert I Goldman 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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