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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k7 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+35 grants · $39M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUMPSTART INC | $4,330,195 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD | $3,348,721 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $3,339,402 |
| BABSON COLLEGE | $3,188,516 |
| INITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY | $2,857,092 |
| LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,561,647 |
| MIAMI DADE COLLEGE | $1,463,773 |
| CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,313,814 |
| SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,270,358 |
| COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND | $1,173,804 |
| LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE | $1,096,440 |
| MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,089,319 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,067,843 |
| HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $1,010,366 |
| INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION | $975,903 |
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 US giving — 83% of grant dollars ($215M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 17% that went abroad ($43M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $5.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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
Beyond the US — 17% of all-years giving ($43M)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
95 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.8M 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
BABSON COLLEGE6× · 2019–2024 · $19M · revenue +28%- IFINITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $15M · revenue +51% · 35% of their budget
- JIJUMPSTART INC2× · 2023–2024 · $7.3M · revenue +59%
Funded once
- TCThe Center for Strategic Economic Studies and Institutional Developmentgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2.3M · revenue ×33 · 86% of their budget
- A5ACCELERATE 500 INCone grant, 2022 · $1.9M · revenue -63% · 28% of their budget
- NYNEW YORK BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LDCone grant, 2020 · $1.8M
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.
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
We help build inclusive and equitable communities by providing people access to the capital and opportunities they deserve.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
To create pathways out of poverty and advance a green economy through inclusive financial services.
Impact capital is a community development financial institution that makes strategic loans in organizations, tribal entities, and housing authorities to spur community development, including affordable housing, art and cultural centers,…
To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
Cdcli invests in the housing and economic aspirations of individuals and families by providing solutions that foster and maintain vibrant, equitable, and sustainable communities.
Calvert impact capital, inc. works for the benefit of underserved communities and individuals and to achieve a more equitable and sustainable world by maximizing the flow of capital in furtherance of such goals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Medicine Policy Research Group and the most unlike its peers is The Mama Glow Foundation. 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 28 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 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
133 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. 133 of the 169 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 BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds INITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JUMPSTART INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Salt Lake Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI STATE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Center for Strategic Economic Studies and Institutional Development ↗
- Who funds Columbus State Community College Development Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAMEEN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE 500 INC ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds LOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds LIFTFUND 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: 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
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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Harbor Bank of Maryland Community Development Corporation — 100% of income from government
- Upton Planning Committee Inc — 100% of income from government
- Garwyn Oaks Northwest Housing Resource Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
- Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Community Loan Fund of New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- CRAFT3 — 1% 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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