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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.

$51k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,501
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Sam & Sooky Goldman Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving9$50k22%
FY202412$61k25%
FY202311$43k9%
FY20227$21k14%
FY202114$62k29%
FY202010$47k20%
FY201916$81k25%
FY201816$75k38%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$175kHealth$141kEducation$116kArts & Culture$63kHuman Services$29kCommunity Improvement$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills$141,9899n/a
The Maple Counseling Center$106,50091%
Young Audiences of Oregon Inc$40,00051%
Our House Grief Support Center$27,50021%
Harvard-Westlake School$14,75070%
Stand Up to Cancer$10,00020%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$8,50050%
Theatre Forty$6,00440%
Yale University$5,5001n/a
Cornerstone Housing for Adults With Disabilities$5,00010%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($83k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sam & Sooky Goldman Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Maple Counseling Center: $106,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetYoung Audiences of Oregon Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOur House Grief Support Center: $27,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHarvard-Westlake School: $14,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetStand Up to Cancer: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFacing History & Ourselves Inc: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTheatre Forty: $6,004 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCornerstone Housing for Adults With Disabilities: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGiving a Smile Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCamp Ramah in California Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJay N Schapira Md Medical Research Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTower Cancer Research Foundation: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLupus la Co Emerge: $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWriters Bloc Presents: $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEnvironmental Research Advocates: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBhpoa Benevolent Fund: $1,450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDiscovery Science Center of Los Angeles: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for Children's Rights: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLoyola Marymount University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreast Cancer Care & Research Fund: $500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHeart of Los Angeles Youth Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConcern Foundation: $200 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 24.

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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.

Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA20.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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About Sam & Sooky Goldman Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Sam & Sooky Goldman Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Sam & Sooky Goldman Charitable Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $51,145 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Sam & Sooky Goldman Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Health (24%), Education (20%).
Who are Sam & Sooky Goldman Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills ($142k), The Maple Counseling Center ($107k), Young Audiences of Oregon Inc ($40k).
Does Sam & Sooky Goldman Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sam & Sooky Goldman Charitable Foundation Inc 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 Sam & Sooky Goldman Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, California Community Foundation, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Where is Sam & Sooky Goldman Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Sam & Sooky Goldman Charitable Foundation Inc is based in CA.

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 49 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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