Maryland · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $33,333
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $167k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $133k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $270k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $179k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $276k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $253k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $186k | 39% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $184k | 28% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles E Smith Jewish Day School of Greater Washington Inc | $180,000 | 8 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington | $110,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Save a Child's Heart Foundation US Inc | $95,000 | 7 | 1% |
| American Friends of Reichman University Inc | $90,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Chabad Shul of Potomac | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chamah | $72,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum | $66,333 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of Leket Israel Inc | $65,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Bender Jcc of Greater Washington | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($137k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
Compare The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Family Foundation with peer funders
About The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Family Foundation
- How much does The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Family Foundation give?
- The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $179,830 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (15%), Education (13%), Religion (13%).
- Who are The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Charles E Smith Jewish Day School of Greater Washington Inc ($180k), World Central Kitchen Inc ($150k), Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington ($111k).
- Does The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Family 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 The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Clark-Winchcole Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, The Gary & Carol Berman Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Family Foundation based?
- The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Family Foundation is based in MD.
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