Kenneth Goodman Family Foundation
This organization is a private foundation focused on supporting education and cancer research. It aims to further educational opportunities through grants to universities and educational institutions, while also contributing to advancements in cancer research. The foundation primarily serves educational and health-related causes, demonstrating a commitment to improving knowledge and health outcomes. Its funding activities have included significant grants to institutions like Syracuse University and the Israel Cancer Research Fund. Although it is based in Arizona, its grantmaking has predominantly supported organizations in New York.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
Established higher-education institutions or organized cancer-research charities with existing relationships or introductions to the trustee or the foundation's network.
Good Fit
- • Requests aligned with higher education or cancer-research purposes.
- • Capacity to absorb six-figure or mid-hundred-thousand dollar grants.
- • Existing institutional relationship or an introduction to the trustee or known contacts.
Geography
Giving in the active years was concentrated in a single state by dollars (New York dominated 2022–2023), with only one minor out-of-state recipient observed, indicating a narrow geographic footprint.
Recipient Variety
In the observed grant years the foundation funded a very small number of recipients (two to three organizations in the active years), focused mainly on universities and cancer-research charities, which suggests a narrow recipient set for the size of grants made.
New Applicants
Direct evidence of funding new, unaffiliated applicants is limited and the foundation's public materials state support is only for preselected applicants; combined with a small, repeat set of large institutional grants, this implies low likelihood that an unfamiliar applicant could enter the portfolio.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
