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The Goodstein Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$616k
Granted FY2026still arriving
38
Grants FY2026still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$784kHealth$742kArts & Culture$266kHousing & Shelter$214kYouth Development$202kFood & Nutrition$143kCrime & Legal$140kReligion$82kOther$0
02FY2026 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k28 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $118k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $405k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE LYRIC$150,000
CENTRAL WYOMING RESCUE MISSION$105,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
CHILD DEVELOPMENT CTR OF NATRONA CO$50,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$35,000
ST ANTHONY TRI PARISH CATHOLIC SCHO$35,000
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$15,000
CENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE$12,500
YOUTH CRISIS CENTER$10,000
12-24 CLUB$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$7,500
HOLY CROSS CENTER$7,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY$5,000
STAGE III$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 (FY17–26, $229k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CLIMB WYOMING: $5k → 10%CLIMB WYOMING: $3k → 10%NOWCAP SERVICE: $3k → 11%CLIMB WYOMING: $2k → 10%CLIMB WYOMING: $2k → 10%CLIMB WYOMING: $2k → 10%CLIMB WYOMING: $2k → 10%CLIMB WYOMING: $2k → 10%CLIMB WYOMING: $2k → 10%CLIMB WYOMING: $2k → 10%CLIMB WYOMING: $2k → 10%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $80k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $25k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES: $13k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $5k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $5k → 11%JOSHUA'S STOREHOUSE: $5k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $5k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $5k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $5k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $5k → 11%JOSHUA'S STOREHOUSE: $5k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $5k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $5k → 11%JOSHUA'S STOREHOUSE: $4k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 11%JOSHUA'S STOREHOUSE: $3k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 11%JOSHUA'S STOREHOUSE: $2k → 11%JOSHUA'S STOREHOUSE: $2k → 11%JOSHUA'S STOREHOUSE: $2k → 11%JOSHUA'S STOREHOUSE: $2k → 11%JOSHUA'S STOREHOUSE: $2k → 11%JOSHUA'S STOREHOUSE: $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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 50 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2026, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
14

Total granted

$3.9M
$152k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+223%

Still filing today

50%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionArts & CultureMembership BenefitOther
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

  • CF
    Casper Family YMCA INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +110%
  • CW
    CENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE & TRANSITIONS
    10× · 2017–2026 · $321k · revenue +137%
  • WR
    Wyoming Rescue Mission
    8× · 2019–2026 · $216k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • HB
    HEALTHY BIRTH INFANT BRAINS FOUDATI
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • DS
    David Street Station
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
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
Wyoming Cares Inc

None

Human Services
2
Carbon County Counseling Center

To provide professional counseling services related primarily to mental health and substance abuse to the residents of Carbon County, Wyoming.

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3
Wasatch Homeless Health Care

Help homeless Utahns improve their health and quality of life by providing high-quality health care and support services.

Health
4
Wyoming Dementia Care

Help families and caregivers of those with Alzheimers and Dementia related illnesses care for their loved ones. Direct services provide: support, encouragement, access to community resources & techniques to help meet challenges of caring…

Housing & Shelter
5
Yellowstone Womens First Step House Inc

Established in 1997, Yellowstone Recovery was founded to provide a place and a plan for indigent men and women who suffer from the diseases of alcoholism and/or drug addiction. Our primary purpose is to help men and women achieve sobriety.

Housing & Shelter
6
Cares Inc

To serve victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and other crimes committted in big horn county, wyoming

Human Services
7
Serve Wyoming Inc

The strengthen Wyoming communities by fostering a spirit of service and volunteerism among citizens of all ages and carry out a national service program as authorized by the National and Community Service Act of 1990.

Philanthropy
8
Wyoming County Healthcare Center Ii
Health
9
Cheyenne County Community Center Foundation

Dedicated to serving the health, wellness, recreational, and social needs of cheyenne county and surrounding area

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10
Wrap Around Wyoming Inc

Focus on individual and family identified priorities and strengths and success. collaborate by including community partner supports and resources families choose themselves so people can thrive. support people where they are. empower them…

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11
Crisis Intervention Services Inc

To provide services and an environment free of physical violence, sexual assault, verbal abuse, emotional abuse, psychological abuse and restriction of personal liberty. crisis intervention services respects the work, dignity and…

Human Services
12
Mental Health & Recovery Services of Jackson Hole

Promoting mental wellness and providing essential mental health services in teton county regardless of a persons ability to pay.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Wyoming Senior Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blue Envelope Health Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 69 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $502,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCasper Family YMCA INC: $425,000 · OtherCasper Family YMCA INCCENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE & TRANSITIONS: $321,200 · OtherCENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE & TRANSITIONSTHE LYRIC: $200,000 · OtherTHE LYRICChild Development Center of Natrona County: $181,000 · OtherChild Development Center of Natrona CountyBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $179,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBNIC ART MUSEUM: $145,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $120,000 · OtherWY MED CENTER FOUNDATION: $107,000 · Other+41 more: $943,600 · Other+41 moreWyoming Rescue Mission: $216,000 · Housing & ShelterWyoming R…YOUTH CRISIS CENTER: $105,000 · Housing & ShelterYOUTH CRI…MOTHER SETON HOUSING INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterMOTHER SE…+2 more: $12,500 · Housing & Shelter12-24 CLUB INC: $165,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $120,000 · HealthMERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $24,000 · HealthCAMP HOPE INC: $11,000 · Health+1 more: $4,000 · HealthCASA of Natrona County: $145,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesJoshuas Storehouse and Distribution Center: $25,000 · Human ServicesCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING: $20,500 · Human Services+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesHOLY CROSS CENTER INC: $61,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $3,500 · Food & NutritionWATER FOR WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $23,000 · Membership BenefitCASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Education
Other$3,123,800Housing & Shelter$363,500Health$324,000Human Services$228,500Food & Nutrition$64,500Membership Benefit$23,000Education$20,000

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 budgetCasper Family YMCA INC: $425,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetCENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE & TRANSITIONS: $321,200 over 10y, 1.8% of budgetWyoming Rescue Mission: $216,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetChild Development Center of Natrona County: $181,000 over 10y, 0.3% of budget12-24 CLUB INC: $165,000 over 10y, 6.5% of budgetCASA of Natrona County: $145,000 over 10y, 13% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $120,000 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH CRISIS CENTER: $105,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetSelf Help Center Inc: $68,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetHOLY CROSS CENTER INC: $61,000 over 10y, 2.6% of budgetCENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES INC: $35,000 over 10y, 1.2% of budgetMOTHER SETON HOUSING INC: $30,000 over 10y, 3.8% of budgetJoshuas Storehouse and Distribution Center: $25,000 over 10y, 3.3% of budgetMERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $24,000 over 10y, 0.5% of budgetWATER FOR WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING: $20,500 over 10y, 0.1% of budgetCASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDavid Street Station: $20,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCASPER HUMANE SOCIETY: $16,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCAMP HOPE INC: $11,000 over 10y, 1.2% of budgetStage III Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASPER YOUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE: $10,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetTHE SCIENCE ZONE: $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetBLUE ENVELOPE HEALTH FUND: $9,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS OF WYOMING: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetImpact Wyoming: $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

  • Who funds Casper Family YMCA INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE & TRANSITIONS ↗
  • Who funds Wyoming Rescue Mission ↗
  • Who funds Child Development Center of Natrona County ↗
  • Who funds 12-24 CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA of Natrona County ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Self Help Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOLY CROSS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTHER SETON HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds Joshuas Storehouse and Distribution Center ↗
  • Who funds MERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WATER FOR WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING ↗
  • Who funds CASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds David Street Station ↗
  • Who funds CASPER HUMANE SOCIETY ↗

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.

The McMurry FoundationNatrona Collective He…Wyoming Community Fou…Zimmerman Family Foun…Wold FoundationUnited Way of Natrona…Double 4 FoundationFirst Interstate Banc…Ruth R Ellbogen Found…Tw FoundationTate FoundationSkelton Myra F Founda…
The McMurry FoundationDE45.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McMurry Foundation · Natrona Collective Health Trust · Wyoming Community Foundation · Zimmerman Family Foundation · Wold Foundation · United Way of Natrona County · Double 4 Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Ruth R Ellbogen Foundation · Tw Foundation · Tate Foundation · Skelton Myra F 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 Goodstein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Goodstein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Goodstein Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Goodstein 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 69 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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