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The Goodman Family Operating 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.

$19M
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$19M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$268kRecreation & Sports$118kEducation$81kHuman Services$62kArts & Culture$30kAnimals$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$17kInternational$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $19M
$8,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$348M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GOODMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA$18,550,000
MAYO CLINIC$50,000
FOLDS OF HONOR - MN INC$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
ONE SUMMIT INC$15,000
SALVATION ARMY MINNEAPOLIS CENTRAL WORSHIP & SERVICE CENTER$10,000
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART$10,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$10,000
CHILDRENS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$10,000
TURNING POINT USA$10,000
MAKE A WISH$8,500
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIAITON$8,500
MN 100 CLUB$7,500
ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY$5,000
FEEDING AMERICA$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $18.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CIRCLE THE CITY: $3k → 11%THE GOODMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA: $18.6M → 5%COMMUNITY THREAD: $2k → 6%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CAREGIVING: $8k → 8%THRIVE AZ: $3k → 11%VALLEY OUTREACH: $2k → 6%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%BELIEVE FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%BELIEVE FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%BELIEVE FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
CA
MD
AZ
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 18% of The Goodman Family Operating Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Goodman Family Operating Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

3%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$630k · 24 repeat orgs$19M to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
11

Total granted

$630k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+30%

Still filing today

71%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentCivil RightsArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MS
    MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +6%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +5%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $24k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CAREGIVINGgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +71%
  • NA
    Northern Arizona Healthcare Corporation
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +14%
  • CT
    CIRCLE THE CITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +44%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
3
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
4
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
National Forest Foundation

The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…

Recreation & Sports
7
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
8
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
9
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
10
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
11
National Patient Advocate Foundation

The national patient advocate foundation, the advocacy affiliate of the patient advocate foundation, represents the patient voice, both the powerful stories of individuals and the collective needs of the community. our programs are…

Health
12
Banner Health

Banner health's nonprofit mission is "making health care easier, so life can be better".

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Goodman Family Foundation of Florida. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
30/32
Grantees still filing
18/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE GOODMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA: $18,550,000 · Human ServicesTHE GOODMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA+8 more: $44,500 · Human ServicesBARRIER FREE GOLF INC: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $60,000 · OtherFOLDS OF HONOR - MN INC: $60,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY MINNEAPOLIS CENTRAL WORSHIP & SERVICE CENTER: $40,000 · OtherMN 100 CLUB: $17,500 · OtherBIG ISLAND LEGACY: $17,500 · OtherWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $13,500 · Other+12 more: $68,500 · OtherMAYO CLINIC: $150,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthOne Summit Inc: $30,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $27,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $23,500 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthPACER CENTER INC: $40,000 · Civil RightsMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $40,000 · Arts & CultureROCK STEADY BOXING INC: $19,500 · EducationGROVES ACADEMY: $11,500 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,000 · EducationTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $18,500 · Animals
Human Services$18,594,500Other$377,000Health$276,000Civil Rights$40,000Arts & Culture$40,000Education$38,000Animals$18,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GOODMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA: $18,550,000 over 1y, 97% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBARRIER FREE GOLF INC: $100,000 over 3y, 79% of budgetPACER CENTER INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOne Summit Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $23,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCK STEADY BOXING INC: $19,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $18,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIG ISLAND LEGACY: $17,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROVES ACADEMY: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELIEVE FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CAREGIVING: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorthern Arizona Healthcare Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCLE THE CITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING SOLUTIONS OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY THREAD: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetValley Outreach: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE STILLWATER MN: $1,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budget
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.

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.

Arizona Community Fou…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Arizona Community FoundationAZ14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Goodman Family Operating Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Goodman Family Operating Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Goodman Family Operating Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Goodman Family Operating 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.

    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 40 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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