· Private foundation
Betty and Leon Goldstein Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $250k+1 grant · $844k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF ATLANTA | $843,569 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF ATLANTA | $1,681 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
34 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 33 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MJMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC4× · 2017–2020 · $19k · revenue +54%
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE4× · 2017–2020 · $12k · revenue +116%- JCJustice Center of Atlanta Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $5k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- CPChastain Park Conservancy Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +162%
- FXFRAGILE X ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +43%
- ACATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +50%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide facilities and services for those elderly and disabled who need long- and short-term physical, psychological, and/or social care in a manner consistent with Jewish values; serve as one of the professional resources to the community…
The museum is dedicated to connecting people to jewish history, culture, and arts.
Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…
Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta's mission is to protect and promote the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast through policy advocacy, legal services,…
The weber school prepares its students for success in college and in life, inspiring them to be knowledgeable, thinking, responsible jewish adults, by weaving together: the pursuit of academic excellence; a commitment to jewish values, the…
To further jewish historical education among youths
The mission of the Charleston Jewish Federation is to build, secure and sustain Jewish life in Charleston, Israel, and around the world.
To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.
Atlanta jewish academy is a college preparatory, co-educational, preschool-12th grade, independent jewish day school, guided by modern orthodox values and principles. we embody the ideals of community, tradition, individual development and…
The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fragile X Association of Georgia Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 22% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds Justice Center of Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds Chastain Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Jewish Home Life Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds FRAGILE X ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL FRAGILE X FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds The Vi and Milton Weinstein Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds Fernbank Inc ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN JEWISH RESOURCE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Hillels of Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds City Springs Theatre ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable Trust · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Cooper Family Foundation Inc · Rosenberg Family Foundation Inc · The Allan & Melanie Nelkin Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Zaban Foundation Inc · Hms Foundation Inc · Horowitz Family Foundation Inc · Hertz Douglas J Family Foundation · The Selig Foundation Inc · The Frank Family Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Betty and Leon Goldstein Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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