· Private foundation
William Goldman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k55 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KORNBERG SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY | $27,500 |
| LEWIS KATZ SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY | $22,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA | $12,500 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA DENTAL SCHOOL | $9,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PENN VET | $7,000 |
| WHYY | $5,000 |
| MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $3,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $3,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PROJECT HOME | $2,500 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $2,500 |
| POLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY | $2,200 |
| CARON TREATMENT SERVICES | $1,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
76 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PCPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE3× · 2020–2022 · $38k · revenue +25%
WHYY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +36%
Philabundance6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- TOTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PERELMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2023 · $20k
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1Done grant, 2024 · $500
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.
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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Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
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As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
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How this is measured
46 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. 46 of the 80 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds POLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds GRATZ COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
- Who funds NAMI MAIN LINE PA ↗
- Who funds Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds CARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Independence Foundation · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Equitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William Goldman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William Goldman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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