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The 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $500k
- $250k+1 grant · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCER STREET FRIENDS | $750,000 |
| AUTISM CARES FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| INTERFAITH HEALTH & SUPPORT SERVICES | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| EMILY'S ENTOURAGE | $100,000 |
| THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $45,000 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $35,000 |
| OCEAN COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS | $35,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HUMAN CONCERNS | $25,000 |
| WOODSIDE MEALS ON WHEELS | $25,000 |
| COASTAL VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $20,000 |
| DOGUE DE BORDEAUX RESCUE | $15,000 |
| COAL CREEK MEALS ON WHEELS | $15,000 |
| SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA | $10,000 |
| TRENTON AREA SOUP KITCHEN | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $500k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
25 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- ACAUTISM CARES FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $500k · revenue +5%
- CFCystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $250k · revenue +8%
- TWTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY3× · 2023–2025 · $135k · revenue +7%
Funded once
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +50%- NKNational Kidney Foundation Incone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +7%
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue -12%
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.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The food trust (tft), a nonprofit founded in philadelphia in 1992, strives to make healthy food available to all.continued on schedule otft is a regional and national leader in developing new strategies to prevent childhood obesity and…
The mission of the american kidney fund is to fight kidney disease and help people live healthier lives. founded in 1971, akf fights kidney disease on all fronts with a comprehensive scope of programs that support people across the…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parkinson's Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Woodside Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 34 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 AUTISM CARES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Penland School Of Craft ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds COASTAL VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSIDE MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds COAL CREEK MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds BIG EAST AKITA RESCUE ↗
- Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds School of Honk Inc ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH INC ↗
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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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