The John & Marcia Goldman Foundation is committed to making a meaningful difference in the lives of others through supporting dedicated organizations. Their philanthropic efforts are aimed at empowering organizations to build their capacities and enact significant impacts in their focus areas.
The Goldman Foundation Grant program is designed to support organizations in several key areas: Youth Development, Science & Health, Arts & Culture, and Special Initiatives. A primary goal of the grantmaking effort is to improve young people’s life trajectories, particularly through the Youth Development program which aims at offering underserved children and youth opportunities to participate in services and activities that enhance their lives. This program specifically targets a harder-to-reach segment of the youth population in the Mid-Peninsula region of the San Francisco Bay Area and addresses critical service gaps, with grants generally being less than $100,000. Their grantmaking approach also includes a focus on strengthening the organizational capacities of the initiatives they support.
Preference is typically directed towards short-duration initiatives or projects that are likely to achieve self-sufficiency in the near future.