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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
Itemized grants FY2023
22
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$69k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2023
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 25
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
3
Total assets, FY2023
$527k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Fred Goldberg Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202322$69k14%
FY202025$79kn/a
83% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Thurston County Food Bank$19,50020%
Safeplace$14,00020%
Community Youth Services$10,00020%
Madison Valley Medical Center Foundation$10,00021%
Mayday Foundation$10,00023%
Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County$7,50010%
University of Washington Foundation$7,00020%
South Sound Maritime Heritage Association$6,00021%
Swedish Medical Center Foundation$5,00020%
Pack the Place in Pink$5,00023%
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All grantees of Fred Goldberg Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Thurston County Food Bank$19,50020%
Safeplace$14,00020%
Community Youth Services$10,00020%
Madison Valley Medical Center Foundation$10,00021%
Mayday Foundation$10,00023%
Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County$7,50010%
University of Washington Foundation$7,00020%
South Sound Maritime Heritage Association$6,00021%
Swedish Medical Center Foundation$5,00020%
Pack the Place in Pink$5,00023%
Tacoma Community House$5,00010%
Olympia Rotary Foundation$5,0001n/a
Boys & Girls Clubs of Thurston County$5,00020%
Mary Bridge Children's Foundation$4,00010%
Panorama$2,00020%
Wild Salmon Center$2,00020%
The Goodtimes Project$2,00020%
Pope John Paul II High School$2,00020%
Madison Valley Caring and Sharing Inc$2,00021%
Montana Preservation Alliance Inc$1,00010%
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center$1,00010%
The Washington Center for the Performing Arts$1,00010%
Providence Southwest Washington Foundation$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($21k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fred Goldberg Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThurston County Food Bank: $19,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSafeplace: $14,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Youth Services: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMadison Valley Medical Center Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMayday Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 2.6% 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 budgetSwedish Medical Center Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPack the Place in Pink: $5,000 over 2y, 3.5% 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 budgetPanorama: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWild Salmon Center: $2,000 over 2y, 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 budgetMadison Valley Caring and Sharing Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMontana Preservation Alliance Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetProvidence Southwest Washington Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Fred Goldberg Family Foundation

How much does Fred Goldberg Family Foundation give?
Fred Goldberg Family Foundation reported 22 itemized grants totaling $69,000, out of $87,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Fred Goldberg Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (6%), Food & Nutrition (4%), Human Services (3%).
Who are Fred Goldberg Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Thurston County Food Bank ($20k), Safeplace ($14k), Community Youth Services ($10k).
Does Fred Goldberg Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fred Goldberg Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fred Goldberg Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound, Dawkins Charitable Trust, Puget Sound Energy Foundation.
Where is Fred Goldberg Family Foundation based?
Fred Goldberg Family Foundation is based in WA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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