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The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund
THE GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ("goldman sachs gives") is a donor-advised fund available to current and retired senior employees of goldman sachs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2,572 grants below total $229,119,184 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $237,201,083 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,081,899 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k169 grants · $1.2M
- $10k–50k1590 grants · $30M
- $50k–250k632 grants · $64M
- $250k+181 grants · $134M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA | $18,618,410 |
| UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION | $5,172,500 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $3,451,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $3,326,150 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $2,679,350 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $2,605,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NY INC | $2,496,423 |
| THE NEW YORK AND PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL | $1,736,000 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $1,697,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE | $1,630,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE | $1,600,500 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $1,438,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $1,434,500 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $1,419,000 |
| CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED | $1,400,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $20.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
1709 repeat relationships — 1278 still active in FY2025, 431 since wound down; 45 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.4M 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
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI6× · 2020–2025 · $18M · revenue +39%
DUKE UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $18M · revenue +49%- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $16M · revenue +46%
Funded once
- AGANANTA GIVING FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6.3M · revenue +414%
- EFELSAI FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $4.1M
- UCUS Chamber of Commerce Foundationone grant, 2021 · $3.0M · revenue -27%
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.
Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…
See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The fund engages in generating, encouraging & promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of new york law school is to provide its students with knowledge, skill (see schedule o) and ethical values needed for a career in law.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tiger Woods Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Onefifteen Recovery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
1818 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. 1818 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds ANANTA GIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds The New York and Presbyterian Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Gray Foundation · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Blackstone Charitable Foundation · The Warburg Pincus Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Weil Gotshal & Manges Foundation Inc · Altman Foundation · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Soros Fund Charitable Foundation · Quinn Emanuel Foundation · The Hyde and Watson 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 Sachs Charitable Gift Fund 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
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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