Goodman Philanthropies is a family philanthropy dedicated to improving economic mobility in the United States.
About us
Goodman Philanthropies is a family philanthropy dedicated to improving economic mobility in the United States. We focus our grantmaking around wage-building and wealth-building initiatives.
We are committed to taking an evidence-based approach towards identifying and scaling what works, while spurring innovation, new insights, and fresh ideas. Learn more about us and our approach. See our grants portfolio here.
What do we fund?
Goodman Philanthropies supports innovative, evidence-based solutions that expand economic mobility across the United States. We prioritize approaches that combine rigor, innovation, and scale to move the needle on poverty and opportunity. Our work is generously funded by Bennett & Meg Goodman, who are committed to dismantling barriers to upward mobility through strategic, impact-driven philanthropy. Our philanthropic funding is centered around two of the key drivers of US economic mobility:
WAGE BUILDING INITIATIVES: We fund the design, pilot, scale, and efficacy research for U.S. career education and training programs and policies that lead to family-sustaining wages and cultivate career pathways and wage growth over time.
WEALTH BUILDING INITIATIVES: We fund new and innovative tools, policies, and ideas that enable more low to moderate income Americans to participate in asset-building as a mechanism for sustained, intergenerational economic mobility.
Please see our Portfolio page for more information about our grants to date.
