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The Goldman Sachs Foundation

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.

$40M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
42
Grants FY2024
92
Organizations funded FY2023
16%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$600,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,330,195
Organizations funded a year
26 to 97
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
22
Total assets, FY2024
$690M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations The Goldman Sachs Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving41$40M7%
FY202392$45M16%
FY202297$54M59%
FY202149$35M41%
FY202064$51M66%
FY201926$30Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Community Improvement$166MEducation$61MInternational$8.2MCivil Rights$5.5MHealth$4.6MHousing & Shelter$3.0MPhilanthropy$2.1MYouth Development$2.0MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Babson College$19,340,64161%
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City Inc$14,871,442635%
Community Reinvestment Fund Inc$8,700,000415%
Jumpstart Inc$7,270,067221%
Community College of Philadelphia Foundation$6,894,113639%
Salt Lake Community College Foundation$5,806,145623%
Community College of Rhode Island$5,762,8566n/a
Delgado Community College Foundation$5,230,897648%
Hope Enterprise Corporation$5,028,130310%
Dallas College Foundation Inc$4,825,732616%
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All grantees of The Goldman Sachs Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Babson College$19,340,64161%
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City Inc$14,871,442635%
Community Reinvestment Fund Inc$8,700,000415%
Jumpstart Inc$7,270,067221%
Community College of Philadelphia Foundation$6,894,113639%
Salt Lake Community College Foundation$5,806,145623%
Community College of Rhode Island$5,762,8566n/a
Delgado Community College Foundation$5,230,897648%
Hope Enterprise Corporation$5,028,130310%
Dallas College Foundation Inc$4,825,732616%
The Morgan State University Foundation Inc$4,768,149510%
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation$4,383,880415%
Morehouse School of Medicine$3,000,00030%
Cincinnati State Technical and Community College Foundation$2,433,085626%
Community College System of New Hampshire$2,304,8406n/a
The Center for Strategic Economic Studies and Institutional Development$2,259,733186%
Columbus State Community College Development Foundation Inc$2,244,92067%
The Community College of Baltimore County Foundation Inc$2,024,048612%
Grameen America Inc$2,000,00023%
Accelerate 500 Inc$1,867,800128%
National Urban League Inc$1,445,64640%
Low Income Investment Fund$1,300,00031%
Liftfund Inc$1,293,54711%
Tory Burch Foundation Inc$1,157,000118%
Echoing Green Inc$1,000,00012%
New York City Business Assistance Corporation$925,961178%
Sinclair Community College Foundation$845,34059%
The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc$750,000111%
San Diego Region Small Business Development Corporation$700,000123%
Dmacc Foundation$665,950115%
Opportunity Finance Network$596,60051%
Brooklyn Public Library$500,00020%
National Coalition on Black Civic Partic$500,00027%
Eat Learn Play Foundation$500,00014%
Jobs for the Future Inc$395,66820%
Springboard to Opportunities$300,00022%
Drive Change Inc$250,00027%
Reflection Foundation$250,000213%
South Dallas Fair Park Innercity Development Corporation$250,000216%
Braven Inc$250,00011%
Mk Level Playing Field Institute$250,00012%
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc$250,00011%
Otr Resources$250,00019%
Bethesda Center for the Homesless Inc$250,000212%
The Growing Season Inc$250,000212%
New Leaders Inc$250,00010%
Habitat for Humanity - Dekalb$250,000222%
Great Falls College - Montana State University$229,6691n/a
Partners in Equity LLC$225,000263%
Dakota Business Lending$224,67526%
Paradigm for Parity$200,000211%
Pursuit of Innovation$200,000216%
Aurora-St Anthony Neighborhood Development Corporation$200,000228%
Corner To Corner$200,00026%
Increasing HOPE$200,000215%
Resist Inc$200,00021%
Cool Girls Inc$200,000213%
Topps-Targeting Our Peoples Priorities With Service$200,000211%
Jeremiah Program$200,00021%
Blackfem Inc$200,000221%
Custom Collaborative Inc$200,000210%
Columbus Urban League$200,00021%
BlackGirls Breathing Foundation Inc$200,000294%
Pivot Inc$200,000216%
Soul 2 Soul Sisters$200,000213%
Village of Healing$200,000214%
Spelman College$153,10010%
The Therapeutic Play Foundation Inc$150,000212%
Geekz Ventures Inc$150,000288%
Garwyn Oaks Northwest Housing Resource Center Inc$150,000218%
Educating Young Minds$150,000213%
Hannibal Square Community Land Trust Inc$150,000216%
We2gether Creating Change$150,000221%
Upton Planning Committee Inc$150,000276%
Bgh Foundation Inc$150,000218%
Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc$150,00026%
The BRidge Agency INC$150,000238%
Cornerstone Corporation$150,000215%
Paul Quinn College$125,00011%
Realize Impact$120,00011%
The Mama Glow Foundation$100,00025%
The Community Preservation Corporation$100,00010%
Locus Impact Fund$100,00011%
Inspiring Minds of Greater Philadelphia Inc$100,000230%
Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs Inc$100,00011%
Community Capital New York Inc$100,00018%
Craft3$100,00010%
Health and Medicine Policy Research Group$100,00014%
Butterfly Dreamz Inc$100,000215%
Capital Impact Partners$100,00010%
Community First Fund$100,00011%
Colorado Enterprise Fund$100,00011%
Pacific Coast Regional Small Business Development Corporation$100,00013%
Seeds of Fortune Inc$100,000214%
The Harbor Bank of Maryland Community Development Corporation$100,00016%
Narrative Nation Inc$100,00025%
Chicago South Side Birth Center$100,0001n/a
HOPE Inc Helping Other People be Empowered$100,000211%
Accion Opportunity Fund Community Development$100,00010%
Brooklyn Alliance Inc$100,00014%
Sistas Caring 4 Sistas Inc$100,00029%
Bbcdc Inc$100,00014%
Heartsmiles Inc$100,00026%
Bridgeway Capital Inc$100,00011%
Peoplefund$100,00011%
Community Loan Fund of New Jersey Inc$100,00011%
Kentucky Highlands Community Development Corporation$100,00018%
Coastal Enterprises Inc$100,00011%
Opencollective Foundation$100,00020%
Neighborhood Trust Financial Partners Inc$100,00011%
Cohort Sistas Inc$100,000221%
Yesshecancampaign$100,000296%
LEAD Girls of NC Inc$100,000212%
The Chicago Community Loan Fund$100,00011%
Black Girls Smile Inc$100,00024%
Detroit Development Fund$100,00013%
Local Initiatives Support Corporation$100,00010%
Appalachian Community Capital Development Foundation$100,000177%
Carolina Small Business Development Fund$100,00012%
Greater Jamaica Development Corporation$100,00012%
Texas Health Institute$75,00012%
Radical Hope Inc$72,30015%
Women's Fund of Central Ohio$50,00012%
Momcares$50,000110%
The Sadie Collective$50,000110%
Florence Crittenton Services of Greater Washington$50,00013%
The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia$50,00011%
Fusion Partnership Inc$50,00010%
Buy From a Black Woman$25,0001n/a
Meridian International Center$11,27310%
Start Small Think Big Inc$7,50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($117M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Goldman Sachs Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 16 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 126 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBabson College: $19,340,641 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetInitiative for a Competitive Inner City Inc: $14,871,442 over 6y, 35% of budgetCommunity Reinvestment Fund Inc: $8,700,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetJumpstart Inc: $7,270,067 over 2y, 21% of budgetCommunity College of Philadelphia Foundation: $6,894,113 over 6y, 39% of budgetSalt Lake Community College Foundation: $5,806,145 over 6y, 23% of budgetDelgado Community College Foundation: $5,230,897 over 6y, 48% of budgetHope Enterprise Corporation: $5,028,130 over 3y, 10% of budgetDallas College Foundation Inc: $4,825,732 over 6y, 16% of budgetThe Morgan State University Foundation Inc: $4,768,149 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetCuyahoga Community College Foundation: $4,383,880 over 4y, 15% of budgetMorehouse School of Medicine: $3,000,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCincinnati State Technical and Community College Foundation: $2,433,085 over 6y, 26% of budgetThe Center for Strategic Economic Studies and Institutional Development: $2,259,733 over 1y, 86% of budgetColumbus State Community College Development Foundation Inc: $2,244,920 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetThe Community College of Baltimore County Foundation Inc: $2,024,048 over 6y, 12% of budgetGrameen America Inc: $2,000,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetAccelerate 500 Inc: $1,867,800 over 1y, 28% of budgetNational Urban League Inc: $1,445,646 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLow Income Investment Fund: $1,300,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLiftfund Inc: $1,293,547 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTory Burch Foundation Inc: $1,157,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetEchoing Green Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNew York City Business Assistance Corporation: $925,961 over 1y, 78% of budgetSinclair Community College Foundation: $845,340 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetThe Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc: $750,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSan Diego Region Small Business Development Corporation: $700,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetDmacc Foundation: $665,950 over 1y, 15% of budgetOpportunity Finance Network: $596,600 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBrooklyn Public Library: $500,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Coalition on Black Civic Partic: $500,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetEat Learn Play Foundation: $500,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetJobs for the Future Inc: $395,668 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSpringboard to Opportunities: $300,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetDrive Change Inc: $250,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetReflection Foundation: $250,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetSouth Dallas Fair Park Innercity Development Corporation: $250,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetBraven Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMk Level Playing Field Institute: $250,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNew York Foundation for the Arts Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOtr Resources: $250,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetBethesda Center for the Homesless Inc: $250,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetThe Growing Season Inc: $250,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetNew Leaders Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHabitat for Humanity - Dekalb: $250,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetPartners in Equity LLC: $225,000 over 2y, 63% of budgetDakota Business Lending: $224,675 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetParadigm for Parity: $200,000 over 2y, 11% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 126.

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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.

Opportunity Finance NetworkDC44.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Opportunity Finance Network · Capital One Foundation Inc · Wells Fargo Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Citi Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Tr Ua Fifth Third Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · Tides Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The Goldman Sachs Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Goldman Sachs Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Goldman Sachs Foundation

How much does The Goldman Sachs Foundation give?
The Goldman Sachs Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $40,306,392 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 97 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Goldman Sachs Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (64%), Education (24%), International (3%).
Who are The Goldman Sachs Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Babson College ($19M), Initiative for a Competitive Inner City Inc ($15M), Community Reinvestment Fund Inc ($8.7M).
Does The Goldman Sachs Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Goldman Sachs 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 Goldman Sachs Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Opportunity Finance Network, Capital One Foundation Inc, Wells Fargo Foundation.
Where is The Goldman Sachs Foundation based?
The Goldman Sachs Foundation is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 169 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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