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The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Family Foundation

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.

$180k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0173% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

International$357kEducation$228kPhilanthropy$200kCommunity Improvement$146kHuman Services$143kArts & Culture$116kHealth$81kEmployment$80kFood & Nutrition$73kOther$586k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $145k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LILLIAN & ALBERT SMALL CAPITAL JEWISH MUSEUM INC$33,333
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON$18,000
KOL SHALOM$18,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$18,000
SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION USINC$15,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC$12,500
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC$10,000
READY WILLING & WORKING INC$10,000
JUBILEE JOBS INC$7,500
AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC$7,500
CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON$5,000
BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER INC$5,000
HOUSE OF RUTH$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHAI-4EVER: $10k → 11%CARINGMATTERS INC: $8k → 8%CARINGMATTERS INC: $5k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $15k → 8%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $10k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $10k → 8%JEWISH FOUNDAATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $10k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $10k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $10k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $10k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $5k → 8%SULAM INC: $5k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $10k → 8%MONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 37 repeat orgs$295k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
25

Total granted

$1.6M
$244k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+8%

Still filing today

84%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalEducationHealthFood & NutritionEmploymentOther

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

  • CE
    CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +14%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +167%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON
    9× · 2017–2025 · $111k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • CS
    CHABAD SHUL OF POTOMAC
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • JW
    Jewish Women International
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +21%
  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -9%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
3
Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc

Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.

Human Services
4
Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra

To promote partnership and coexistence among jewish and arab citizens of israel by providing support for integrated schools and providing funding for and assisting in program development in connection with israeli nonprofits with similar…

International
5
Hillel At the George Washington University Inc

The mission of gw hillel is to provide an open, warm, and pluralistic environment in which students can shape their college experience by connecting socially, culturally, and spiritually to their judaism. hillel aims to foster students'…

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6
Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School

Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…

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7
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
8
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
9
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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10
The Jerusalem Connection
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11
Jews United for Justice Inc

Jews united for justice advances economic, racial, and social justice in the baltimore-washington region by educating and mobilizing our local jewish communities to action.

Religion
12
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc and the most unlike its peers is Judaism and Democracy Action Alliance of North America Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%5%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr14%36%35–55yr13%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr14%33%35–55yr13%24%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/62
the rest of the field
12%
4,755/40,684

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.

04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 70 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/57
Grantees still filing
39/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC — $95,000 · OtherSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INCCHABAD SHUL OF POTOMAC — $75,000 · OtherCHABAD SHUL OF POTOMACCHAMAH — $72,500 · OtherCHAMAHJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GW — $67,000 · OtherJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GWCHABAD-LUBAVITCH OF MARYLAND INC — $30,500 · OtherHOPE HOUSE — $30,000 · OtherFOOD & FRIENDS INC — $30,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC — $27,500 · OtherJUBILEE JOBS INC — $37,500 · OtherSUNFLOWER BAKERY INC — $32,500 · OtherBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $55,000 · OtherBREAD FOR THE CITY INC+25 more — $267,250 · Other+25 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $150,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHE…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC — $90,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF …SEEDS OF PEACE INC — $35,000 · InternationalSEEDS OF PEACE INCELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS INC — $30,000 · InternationalELEM YOUTH IN DISTRE…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $18,750 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $18,000 · International+2 more — $15,000 · InternationalCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $180,000 · EducationCHARLES E SM…FIRST BOOK — $20,000 · EducationFIRST BOOKGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $11,968 · EducationABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL — $10,000 · Education+2 more — $6,000 · EducationTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $73,762 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH …AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $65,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FR…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $45,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL …AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHANTI HOUSE INC — $7,500 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING BACK FUND — $7,500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $110,500 · Community ImprovementAVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC — $35,000 · Community ImprovementBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $60,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesCARINGMATTERS INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY — $10,000 · Human ServicesCHAI 4EVER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesGreater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd — $10,000 · Human ServicesMONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSulam Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE — $5,000 · Human ServicesLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum — $66,333 · Arts & CultureJUDAISM AND DEMOCRACY ACTION ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE THEATRE LAB INC — $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$819,750International$356,750Education$227,968Philanthropy$199,762Community Improvement$145,500Human Services$142,500Arts & Culture$116,333

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $180,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $110,500 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC — $95,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC — $90,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $73,762 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum — $66,333 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $65,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUBILEE JOBS INC — $37,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetAVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC — $35,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSUNFLOWER BAKERY INC — $32,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetJUDAISM AND DEMOCRACY ACTION ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC — $27,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriendship Place — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST BOOK — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE THEATRE LAB INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetJewish Women International — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $18,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH — $17,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCARINGMATTERS INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $11,968 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI 4EVER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGreater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHANTI HOUSE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOURISH NOW FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE CONNECTIONS FOR CANCER SUPPORT INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHAZON INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSulam Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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.

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.

Clark-Winchcole Found…The Morris and Gwendo…The Gary & Carol Berm…Greater Washington Co…The Gary and Pennie A…Louis & Helen Fanarof…The Lynn Shapiro Snyd…Ronald & Joy Paul Fam…Mayberg Foundation IncIsadore & Bertha Gude…Bender Foundation IncThe Robert P and Arle…
Clark-Winchcole FoundationMD32× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Gary & Carol Berman Family Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · Louis & Helen Fanaroff Char Foundation · The Lynn Shapiro Snyder and Jeffrey M Snyder Family Foundation Inc · Ronald & Joy Paul Family Foundation Inc · Mayberg Foundation Inc · Isadore & Bertha Gudelsky Family Fnd Inc · Bender Foundation Inc · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family 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 The Aaron and Cecile 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd — 28% of income from government
  • Chai 4EVER Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Bender Jcc of Greater Washington — 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% of income from government
  • Adoptions Together Inc Dba As Paths for Families — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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