Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Kathryn Goodman 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.
- $400k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Kathryn Goodman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $400k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $407k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $389k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $386k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $318k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $324k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $168k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $91k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Musically Fed | $357,500 | 7 | 25% |
| Child Justice Inc | $240,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Friends of Mvyradio Inc | $98,354 | 8 | 1% |
| Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc | $81,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Vineyard House Inc | $70,001 | 9 | 2% |
| Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's | $70,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Pine Street Inn Inc | $50,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Rosie's Place Inc | $50,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Animal Shelter of Marthas Vineyard Inc | $43,000 | 9 | 2% |
| YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Kathryn Goodman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About The Kathryn Goodman Foundation
- How much does The Kathryn Goodman Foundation give?
- The Kathryn Goodman Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $399,910 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Kathryn Goodman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are The Kathryn Goodman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Musically Fed ($358k), Child Justice Inc ($240k), Friends of Mvyradio Inc ($98k).
- Does The Kathryn Goodman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kathryn Goodman 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 Kathryn Goodman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc, Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc, Tower Family Fund Inc.
- Where is The Kathryn Goodman Foundation based?
- The Kathryn Goodman Foundation is based in MA.
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