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Fred Goldberg Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$87k
Granted FY2023
22
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Health$37kFood & Nutrition$29kHuman Services$22kYouth Development$20kEducation$14kArts & Culture$10kPhilanthropy$3kEnvironment$2kOther$0
02FY2023 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 22 grants below total $69,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $87,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k21 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$527k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Thurston County Food Bank$10,000
PPGNHAIK$7,000
Madison Valley Medical Center Fdn$5,000
UW Foundation$5,000
The Mayday Foundation$5,000
Community Youth Services$5,000
SafePlace$4,000
Mary Bridge Children's Foundation$4,000
South Sound Maritime Heritage Association$3,500
Pack the Place in Pink$3,000
Boys & Girls Club of Thurston County$2,500
Swedish Medical Center Foundation$2,500
S Puget Sound Community College Fdn$2,500
GRuB$2,000
The Washington Center for the Performing Arts$1,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$116k · 19 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
6

Total granted

$116k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+21%

Still filing today

74%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’23
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • S
    SAFEPLACE
    2× · 2020–2023 · $14k · revenue +82%
  • CY
    COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES
    2× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue +4%
  • MV
    MADISON VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue +221%

Funded once

  • EF
    EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -20%
  • TC
    Tacoma Community House
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -29%
  • OR
    Olympia Rotary Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +70%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
Highline Medical Center Foundation

Highline Medical Center Foundation brings our community together to support exceptional health care, close to home, for all who need it. Thanks to the generosity of our caring neighbors and friends, we help ensure that St Anne Hospital has…

Health
2
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
3
The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound

To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.

Philanthropy
4
Olympic Peninsula Community Clinic

Improving the quality of life for the people in the Olympic Peninsula Community by providing increased access to health and wellness services for the underserved

Health
5
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
6
Sustainable Path Foundation

Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.

Social Science
7
Peninsula Community Health Services of Alaska

Strengthening the community by providing accessible and affordable health care.

Health
8
Washington Health Care Association

Trade association dedicated to providing educational opportunities, legal and regulatory advice, quality compliance assistance, lobbying and discounted group member benefits for long-term care facilities.

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9
Wenatchee Valley Hospital

We are dedicated to improving our patients' health by providing safe, high-quality care in a compassionate and cost-effective manner.

—
10
Washington Filmworks

To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…

Community Improvement
11
Community Foundation of Snohomish County

The Community Foundation of Snohomish County (the Foundation) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Washington. The Foundation serves as a community foundation, supporting a broad spectrum of…

Philanthropy
12
Spokane Parks Foundation

The Spokane Parks Foundation cultivates the health, growth, and continued enjoyment of our communities by inspiring giving and passion for our parks.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Salmon Center and the most unlike its peers is Montana Preservation Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAYDAY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthMAYDAY FOUNDATIONMADISON VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthMADISON VALLEY MEDICAL CENT…PACK THE PLACE IN PINK — $5,000 · HealthPACK THE PLACE IN PINKSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUN…MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $4,000 · HealthMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUN…THE GOODTIMES PROJECT — $2,000 · HealthTHE GOODTIMES PROJECTSAFEPLACE — $14,000 · Human ServicesSAFEPLACECOMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICESTacoma Community House — $5,000 · Human ServicesTacoma Community HousePANORAMA — $2,000 · Human ServicesPANORAMAMadison Valley Caring and Sharing Inc — $2,000 · Human ServicesMadison Valley Caring and…PPGNHAIK — $7,000 · OtherPPGNHAIKSouth Sound Maritime Heritage Association — $6,000 · OtherSouth Sound Maritime Heri…S Puget Sound Community College Fdn — $5,000 · OtherS Puget Sound Community C…GRuB — $4,000 · OtherGRuBCommunity Fdn of S Puget Sound — $3,000 · OtherCommunity Fdn of S Puget …The Greater Ravalli Foundation — $2,000 · OtherThe Greater Ravalli Found…WILD SALMON CENTER — $2,000 · OtherWILD SALMON CENTER+4 more — $4,000 · Other+4 moreTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK — $19,500 · Food & NutritionTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD…EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY — $7,500 · Food & NutritionEMERGENCY FOOD NETWO…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $7,000 · EducationPope John Paul II High School — $2,000 · EducationOlympia Rotary Foundation — $5,000 · Community ImprovementBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY — $5,000 · Youth Development
Health$36,000Human Services$33,000Other$33,000Food & Nutrition$27,000Education$9,000Community Improvement$5,000Youth Development$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK — $19,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAFEPLACE — $14,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMAYDAY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Sound Maritime Heritage Association — $6,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPACK THE PLACE IN PINK — $5,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTacoma Community House — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOODTIMES PROJECT — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPope John Paul II High School — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWILD SALMON CENTER — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPANORAMA — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMadison Valley Caring and Sharing Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMONTANA PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROVIDENCE SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Washington Center for the Performing Arts — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Dawkins Charitable Tr…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Renah Blair Rietzke F…Medina FoundationThurston County Econo…United Way of Thursto…The Finninsula Founda…Forest FoundationGreater Tacoma Commun…Lucky Seven FoundationM J Murdock Charitabl…
The Community Foundation of South Puget SoundWA21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound · Dawkins Charitable Trust · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Renah Blair Rietzke Family Foundation · Medina Foundation · Thurston County Economic Development Cou · United Way of Thurston County · The Finninsula Foundation Inc Co Ted Sandler · Forest Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Fred Goldberg Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fred Goldberg Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $92k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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