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The Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust at a glance

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The Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust

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.

$917k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.7MEducation$1.5MHealth$1.1MCivil Rights$470kEnvironment$215kFood & Nutrition$200kReligion$135kHuman Services$115kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $252k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $650k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY$200,000
THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER$100,000
GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE$100,000
WNET$100,000
DRAKE UNIVERSITY - AGRICULTURAL LAW CENTER$50,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$50,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$50,000
TEMPLE EMANU-EL$40,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL$30,000
THE JEWISH MUSEUM$30,000
DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC$25,000
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE$25,000
BOWDOIN COLLEGE$20,000
ULTIMATE SACRIFICE FOUNDATION INC$12,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $10k → 14%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

ME
MN
IL
NY
WY
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
DE
AZ
TN
DC
FL
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 25 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
27

Total granted

$4.1M
$800k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+26%

Still filing today

76%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $727k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthCivil RightsEnvironmentReligionOther
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

  • RC
    Rhodes College
    4× · 2017–2021 · $720k · revenue +13%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $420k · revenue +12%
  • EH
    ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER
    4× · 2017–2021 · $400k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • SS
    SEED SAVERS EXCHANGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +26%
  • PA
    PEN AMERICAN CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +110%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE MID-HUDSON VALLEY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +2%
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.

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The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
United States Naval Institute

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.

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4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center; the most unlike its peers is Bellevue Literary Review Inc. 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

53 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. 53 of the 70 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
35/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WNET: $920,000 · Arts & CultureWNETTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY IN…GRAMERCY PARK BLOCK ASSOC INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureGRAMERCY PARK BLOCK ASSOC INCPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $100,000 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN CENTER INC+11 more: $285,000 · Arts & Culture+11 moreRhodes College: $720,000 · EducationRhodes CollegeBowdoin College: $217,000 · EducationBowdoin CollegeAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $120,000 · EducationAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INCGEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $90,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN COLLEGETEACH KENTUCKY INC: $55,000 · Education+4 more: $85,000 · Education+4 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $420,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD…ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER: $400,000 · HealthENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL…ARM OF CARE INC: $35,000 · Health+3 more: $70,000 · Health+3 moreYALE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF LAW: $80,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KEN…TEMPLE EMANU-EL: $70,000 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-ELPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE MID-HUDSON VALLEY INC: $50,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOO…DRAKE UNIVERSITY - AGRICULTURAL LAW CENTER: $50,000 · OtherDRAKE UNIVERSITY …New Eyes for the Needy Inc: $45,000 · OtherDEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $45,000 · OtherTHE REDWOODS A COMMUNITY OF SENIORS: $40,000 · OtherYALE LAW SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherUNITED JEWISH APPEAL: $30,000 · Other+20 more: $342,000 · Other+20 moreTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $300,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER …GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $100,000 · Civil RightsGIFFORDS LA…THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $100,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER P…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $50,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMA…+1 more: $10,000 · Civil RightsCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $25,000 · EnvironmentVOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $25,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentSEED SAVERS EXCHANGE INC: $150,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$1,630,000Education$1,287,000Health$925,000Other$882,000Civil Rights$560,000Environment$215,000Food & Nutrition$150,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWNET: $920,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRhodes College: $720,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $420,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBowdoin College: $217,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC: $200,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSEED SAVERS EXCHANGE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGRAMERCY PARK BLOCK ASSOC INC: $125,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTEACH KENTUCKY INC: $55,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE MID-HUDSON VALLEY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Eyes for the Needy Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE REDWOODS A COMMUNITY OF SENIORS: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHAKERTOWN AT PLEASANT HILL KENTUCKY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARM OF CARE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATER BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS CORP: $30,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KENTUCKY BAR FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Bay Park Conservancy Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS IN PARTNERSHIP INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWBELONG INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Amy P Goldman Foundat…The Community Foundat…Marin Community Found…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Ibm International Fou…Verizon FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Bank of America C…
Amy P Goldman FoundationNY17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amy P Goldman Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Marin Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Delaware Art Museum Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Achievement First Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to The Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust 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 70 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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