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The Goodwin 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK | $130,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVE SHALOMWAHAT AL-SALAM | $50,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE (ALLMEP) | $50,000 |
| GLOBAL ECHO LITIGATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE | $10,000 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL | $3,600 |
| OVARIAN CANCER CIRCLE | $2,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PARENT'S CIRCLE | $1,800 |
| JUST VISION INC | $1,800 |
| GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE | $1,000 |
| TRUAH | $1,000 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $1,000 |
| HIAS | $1,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY20–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TMTHE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $497k · revenue +78%
- JSJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC7× · 2017–2023 · $376k · revenue +40%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVE SHALOMWAHAT AL-SALAM INC7× · 2018–2024 · $350k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- MCMercy Corpsone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +21%
- GEGlobal Echo Litigation Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +46%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -21%
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 jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People for the American Way and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. 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 35 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 121 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 THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVE SHALOMWAHAT AL-SALAM INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds Just Vision Inc ↗
- Who funds DWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ENCOUNTER PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID S WYMAN INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Global Echo Litigation Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds T'RUAH ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKING THE BOAT INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds CORE INC ↗
- Who funds AREI INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Aspen Community Foundation · Topol Family Foundation Inc · New Israel Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Foundation for Middle East Peace · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation
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 Goodwin 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc — 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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