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Goldberg and Kaiser Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$191k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$57k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.0MHuman Services$245kEducation$156kScience & Tech$96kHousing & Shelter$46kPublic Safety & Disaster$39kInternational$36kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$57,346
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$32,600
NEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL$25,000
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE CAREERS PROGRAM$10,000
THE ENDOCRINE SOCIETY$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK$10,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$7,500
ROSIE'S PLACE$5,000
PINE STREET INN$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,030
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE$1,555
WBUR 909FM$1,500
RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE$1,500
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO$1,463
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SELAH NEIGHBORHOOD HOMELESS COALITION: $500 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 14%PINE STREET INN: $8k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 14%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $2k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $2k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $300 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
VA
DE
AZ
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 43 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
46

Total granted

$1.5M
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+43%

Still filing today

56%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NC
    NEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $241k · revenue +75%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +46%
  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • AO
    ASSOCIATES OF UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BRUNSWICK FREDERICTON
    one grant, 2017 · $19k
  • MB
    MASS BIOTECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
Massachusetts Medical Society

To advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare…

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5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
7
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
8
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
9
The N 1 Collaborative Inc

To make individualized medicines routinely and rapidly accessible to rare disease patients worldwide.

Health
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
12
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Barn At Lee. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 100 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
39/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $665,258 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCENDOCRINE SOCIETY: $70,600 · HealthENDOCRINE SOCIETYPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $34,000 · Health+14 more: $17,465 · HealthMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $267,210 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDNEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $240,700 · OtherNEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL INCUNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK: $68,955 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK+64 more: $94,363 · Other+64 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $88,450 · EducationBIOMEDICAL SCIENCE CAREERS PROGRAM INC: $30,000 · Education+5 more: $3,104 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $39,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $24,800 · Human Services+2 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesROSIE'S PLACE INC: $20,500 · Housing & ShelterGREAT HALL PERFORMANCE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureBARN AT LEE: $1,560 · Arts & CultureBROOKLINEDOTNEWS CORPORATION: $250 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $2,555 · Science & Tech
Health$787,323Other$671,228Education$121,554Human Services$66,300Housing & Shelter$20,500Arts & Culture$5,810Science & Tech$2,555

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $665,258 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $240,700 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $88,450 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetENDOCRINE SOCIETY: $70,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $39,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $34,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBIOMEDICAL SCIENCE CAREERS PROGRAM INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $24,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $20,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $4,910 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TERMEER INSTITUTE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $3,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $3,126 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $2,555 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPINE GROVE SCHOOL PTA: $2,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEEDHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBARN AT LEE: $1,560 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINUTE MAN ARC FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $504 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF NEEDHAM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL TAY-SACHS & ALLIED DISEASES ASS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSELAH NEIGHBORHOOD HOMELESS COALITION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Legion: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE SQUARES NEW ENGLAND INC: $258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEEDHAM STEPS UP INCORPORATED: $250 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS PROSTATE CANCER COALITION INC C/O GREEN ASSOCIATES LLC: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKLINEDOTNEWS CORPORATION: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $128 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $109 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREER RECORDS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PITUITARY SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOUCHDOWN CLUB OF NEEDHAM INC: $100 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPREECLAMPSIA FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds ENDOCRINE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE CAREERS PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREAT HALL PERFORMANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TERMEER INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds PINE GROVE SCHOOL PTA ↗
  • Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEEDHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BARN AT LEE ↗
  • Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH EQUITY COMPACT INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds MINUTE MAN ARC FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Community Foundation …The Pfizer Foundation…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA17.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Goldberg and Kaiser Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Goldberg and Kaiser Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Preeclampsia Foundation Inc: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Needham Community Council Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Minute Man Arc for Human Services Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 100 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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