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Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
ONE LOMBARD
ST STE 303
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111
Phone:
415-788-1090
Fax: 415-788-7890
Email:
andrea@goldmanprize.org
Website:
www.goldmanfund.org
EIN: 94-6064502
Exempt since January 1953
Profile: Large grants to extremely anti-capitalist groups,
ironically supported by an investment portfolio (2000) containing
shares of Enron, Texaco, common stock.
Source of wealth:
Gifts
of Rhoda H. Goldman (1924-1996),
investor and businessman (Surdna is Andrus
spelled backwards). His Arlington Chemical Company
manufactured medicines and distributed them worldwide. His
investments included buildings and land in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, large timber tracts in
Northern California, mineral-rich acres in New Mexico as well
as significant land holdings in Florida, New Jersey and Alaska.
In his 60s, he was elected mayor of Yonkers, New York,
followed by four terms in the U.S. Congress. He held long-term posts
as a trustee of Wesleyan University and as a director of New York
Life Insurance Company.
Fund Board of Directors
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RICHARD N
GOLDMAN, PRESIDENT |
John D.
Goldman,
Vice President |
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Douglas
E. Goldman,
Vice President |
Susan
R. Gelman,
Vice President |
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Lisa M.
Goldman,
Vice President |
Marcia
L. Goldman,
Vice President |
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Michael
C. Gelman,
Vice President |
CHARLES
F. GREENE, ASSISTANT SECRETARY |
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Profiles of
board members:
 RICHARD N.
GOLDMAN, PRESIDENT (Shown
with wife Rhoda, who died in 1996)
Widower of Rhoda Haas Goldman,
daughter of Walter Haas,
and
great-grandneice
of Levi Strauss,
founder of the privately held clothing
company that bears his name. Strauss was
childless and left his company to four nephews, one of whom was
Sigmund Stern, Rhoda's maternal grandfather.
Chairman, Richard N. Goldman & Co.
Insurance Services.
President, Jewish Community
Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma
Counties.
Numerous board memberships, honorary degree
recipient, awards of recognition.
John D. Goldman,
Vice President
CEO, Richard
N. Goldman & Co. Insurance Services; President, Jewish Community
Federation of San Francisco; President, San Francisco Symphony; son
of Richard & Rhoda Goldman; trustee, Swarthmore College
Douglas E. Goldman,
Vice President
Retired emergency
physician; chair, Certain Software; founder, the Goldman Jewish
Genealogy Center.;
chair, Stern Grove Festival Assn.; son of Levi Strauss heirs Richard
& Rhoda Goldman; trustee, the Goldman Environmental
Foundation.;
president, the Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund
Susan R. Gelman,
Vice President
Former
member, the President's Advisory Council on the Arts; Trustee, WETA;
daughter of Richard & Rhoda Goldman
Lisa M. Goldman,
Vice President
Wife of
Douglas E. Goldman
Marcia L. Goldman,
Vice President
Co-Chairman,
Theaterworks; wife of John D. Goldman
Michael C. Gelman,
Vice President
President,
Gelman Rosenberg & Freedman; Campaign Chair, Jewish Federation of
Greater Washington; Member, University of Maryland Board of Regents
CHARLES
F. GREENE, ASSISTANT SECRETARY (Executive Director) Succeeded
Duane Silverstein as executive director,
1999.
Formerly executive director of the
Volunteer Center of San Francisco.
Richard
and Rhoda Goldman Foundation
121 STEUART
STREET
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105
EIN: 94-3238864
Exempt since 1996
Board of Directors
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HAROLD ZLOT, TREASURER |
DONALD SEILER, SECRETARY |
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PHYLLIS COOK, ASSISTANT SECRETARY |
RICHARD N GOLDMAN, PRESIDENT |
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Description: A family foundation created in the late 1990s to fund
radical groups from its beginning.
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