· Private foundation
The Goldenson-Arbus Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOREEN ARBUS FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| CEREBRAL PALSY ALLIANCE RESEARCH FD | $13,000 |
| BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $12,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NE | $5,500 |
| BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| THE TAFT SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| KIDS IN CRISIS | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS american f | $3,000 |
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | $2,500 |
| LITERACY PARTNERS | $1,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HARBORING HEARTS | $1,000 |
| CHEWONKI | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CAMP ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 5 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BFBROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA7× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +22%
Cornell University7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +59%- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC4× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- LELEADING EDGE PRODUCTIONS INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -92%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +39%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +253%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
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Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
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As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE LOREEN ARBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LEADING EDGE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NEPONSET VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds ENVOLVED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NEWTON CEMETERY ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Goldenson-Arbus Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Goldenson-Arbus Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
- Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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