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The Goodman 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.

$591k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
15%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,860
Largest grant, FY2025
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 25
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations The Goodman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther
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
FY2025still arriving12$590k25%
FY202413$820k15%
FY202316$680k38%
FY202211$680k9%
FY202111$875k0%
FY202013$648k38%
FY201918$691k17%
FY201825$559k24%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$2.0MPhilanthropy$1.9MHealth$979kInternational$919kEducation$189kArts & Culture$163kRecreation & Sports$67kCivil Rights$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Park Avenue Synagogue Inc$1,991,4009n/a
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$1,850,55490%
Birthright Israel Foundation$913,60080%
New York University$165,00020%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$56,00040%
The Mount Sinai Hospital$50,00020%
Museum of Modern Art$40,77470%
American Theatre Wing Inc$28,50060%
The Actors' Fund of America$12,25760%
Friends of Jcc Krakow Inc$11,40030%
Show all 34 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Goodman Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $1,850,554 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $913,600 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNew York University: $165,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $56,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mount Sinai Hospital: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $40,774 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Theatre Wing Inc: $28,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe Actors' Fund of America: $12,257 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Jcc Krakow Inc: $11,400 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFoundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArtcouncil Inc Dba Artadia: $9,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAtlantic Theater Company: $8,470 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Art Fund Inc: $8,010 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $7,860 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Theatre in America Inc: $7,194 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Shakespeare Festival: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater: $2,970 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Stage and Film Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSelfhelp Community Services Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Repertory Theatre Co Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLewy Body Dementia Association Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAbingdon Theatre Company: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNew York Theatre Workshop Inc: $1,225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaking Headway Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBallet Theatre Foundation Inc: $240 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArttable Inc: $225 over 1y, 0.0% 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 31.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Goodman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Goodman Family 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 Goodman Family Foundation

How much does The Goodman Family Foundation give?
The Goodman Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $591,399 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Goodman Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (32%), Philanthropy (30%), Health (16%).
Who are The Goodman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Park Avenue Synagogue Inc ($2.0M), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($1.9M), Birthright Israel Foundation ($914k).
Does The Goodman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Goodman Family 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 Goodman Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Goodman Family Foundation based?
The Goodman Family 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 52 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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