· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $294k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $250,000 |
| PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE | $219,221 |
| NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER | $75,000 |
| MANHATTAN THEATER CLUB | $10,464 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL THEATER IN AMERICA | $7,194 |
| LINCOLN CENTER | $6,860 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND | $1,750 |
| JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND | $1,600 |
| ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY | $1,600 |
| ABINGDON THEATRE COMPANY | $1,500 |
| PUBLIC ART FUND | $1,210 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of The Goodman Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 85%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +39%
- NYNew York University2× · 2017–2018 · $165k · revenue +76%
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC4× · 2017–2021 · $56k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- NGNYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2023 · $50k
- FTFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -15%
- NHNORTHWELL HEALTH INCone grant, 2022 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN THEATRE WING INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds ARTCOUNCIL INC DBA ARTADIA ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ART FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC ↗
- Who funds SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Goodman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Goodman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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