· Private foundation
Sam & Sooky Goldman Charitable Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of SAM & SOOKY GOLDMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER | $25,000 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL OF BEVERLY HILLS | $7,144 |
| STAND UP TO CANCER | $5,000 |
| FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| THEATRE FORTY | $1,501 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES | $1,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF BEVERLY HILLS | $1,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| BEVERLY HILLS ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION | $500 |
| CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES | $500 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- TMTHE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +255%
- HSHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +21%
- FHFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC5× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $6k
- GAGIVING A SMILE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- OHOUR HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 49 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 THE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES OF OREGON INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE FORTY ↗
- Who funds GIVING A SMILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAY N SCHAPIRA MD MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LUPUS LA CO EMERGE ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley ↗
- Who funds WRITERS BLOC PRESENTS ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds BHPOA BENEVOLENT FUND ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
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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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · The Annenberg Foundation · Allen and Anita Kohl Charitable Foundation Inc · Johnny Carson Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Sam & Sooky Goldman Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Young Audiences of Oregon Inc — 23% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% 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.