· Private foundation
The Stephen H Goldman Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k9 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $39k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCF FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| WHY U | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL YOUNG COMPOSERS CHALLENGE | $25,000 |
| WINTER PARK VOICE | $13,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FIRST AMENDMENT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| IDEAS FOR US INC | $5,000 |
| CATALYSTS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL CONTR | $5,000 |
| TIMUCUA ARTS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| WINTER PARK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| PERFORMING ARTS MATTER INC | $500 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OF BLACK HIL | $500 |
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 (FY17–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $279k · revenue +16%
- NYNATIONAL YOUNG COMPOSERS CHALLENGE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +4% · 100% of their budget
- IFIDEAS FOR US INC7× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +289%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDone grant, 2019 · $100k
- WPWISDOMVR PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -98% · 47% of their budget
- OLOrlando Land Trust Incone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -99%
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.
improving civic life through public perf
Arts & Culture (Music Performance & Education)
OUFF an Urban Community Movie, Music Showcase Celebrate and expose the media arts. The purpose is to provide public exposure for independent creators and entrepreneurs in film and music including producers, actors, and screenwriters ie.…
The Mission of ME Dance is to introduce innovative ideas through dance to create growth in the arts community. Our goal is to enrich the arts community by providing an outlet to feature talent in art through entertainment.
Orlando Flamencos mission is to make the UNESCO World Heritage art of Flamenco more accessible to the Orlando community by delivering top artists from Spain for performance / master classes /choreography
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orlando Museum of Art Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wisdomvr Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 31 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 WHY U INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YOUNG COMPOSERS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds IDEAS FOR US INC ↗
- Who funds WINTER PARK VOICE INC ↗
- Who funds Orlando Shakespeare Theater Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE BAMBOO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WINTER PARK LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds WISDOMVR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Orlando Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRST AMENDMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIMUCUA ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Winter Park Historical Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds BACH FESTIVAL SOCIETY OF WINTER PARK ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DAGO INC ↗
- Who funds POPULATION CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
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: Central Florida Foundation · James T and Diana P Barnes Foundation Inc · The David and Lyn Berelsman Family Charitable Foundation Trust · United Arts of Central Florida Inc · The Dr P Phillips Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Stephen H Goldman Foundation Inc 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.
- Ideas for Us Inc — 35% of income from government
- United Arts of Central Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- First Amendment Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Orlando Museum of Art Inc — 0% 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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