· Private foundation
Wayne Goldstein Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLLEGE TRACKS | $5,000 |
| PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| MN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCAC | $2,500 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| LAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT | $1,500 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $1,000 |
| FOOD & WATER WATCH | $1,000 |
| JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $500 |
| FCNL EDUCATION FUND | $500 |
| IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA | $500 |
| B-CC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ROSENBERG FUND FOR CHILDREN | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| PROJECT CITIZENSHIP | $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 (FY19–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% 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.
45 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- PCPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $16k · revenue +15%
- LSLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT7× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue +43%
- KCKeystone Community Services7× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- 4I40 INDIVIDUAL CHARITIESone grant, 2018 · $28k
SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +423%- HCHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEESone grant, 2017 · $3k · 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.
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…
The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
Civicus is a global alliance of civil society organisations and activists dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
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…
The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Physicians for a National Health Program Minnesota. 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 40 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 — 0.0% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 57 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 PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Keystone Community Services ↗
- Who funds FOOD & WATER WATCH ↗
- Who funds COLLEGETRACKS INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds N STREET VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds FCNL EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds ROSENBERG FUND FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds The Shepherds Table Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds THE SENTENCING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE FREEDOM LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM MINNESOTA ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Network for Good
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 Wayne Goldstein Memorial 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
- Project Citizenship Inc — 10% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 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.