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Goldberg Ben Mem Trust-Ca at a glance

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Goldberg Ben Mem Trust-Ca

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$104k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$505kEducation$184kCommunity Improvement$68kPhilanthropy$61kArts & Culture$33kHealth$31kFood & Nutrition$27kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $86k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HILLEL FDN FOR JEWISH CAMPUS$20,000
Individual grant recipient$17,000
THE WOMENS JEWISH LEARNING CENTER$15,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY ASSOC OF GREATER PHX$12,000
BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATON OF GREATER PHX$12,000
VALLEY BEIT MIDRASH$10,000
CHABAD OF NORTH PHOENIX -$7,000
CHABAD AT ASU$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MERKOS CHABAD LUBAVTCH-FRIENDSHIP C: $10k → 11%B'RITH SHALON INC: $10k → 14%HILLEL AT ASU - ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $22k → 11%HILLEL AT ASU-ARIZONA STATE UNIVERS: $20k → 11%HILLEL AT ASU-ARIZONA STATE UNIVERS: $20k → 11%HILLEL AT ASU - ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 11%HILLEL AT ASU-ARIZONA STATE UNIVERS: $20k → 11%HILLEL FDN FOR JEWISH CAMPUS: $20k → 11%HILLEL AT ASU - ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 11%HILLEL AT ASU-ARIZONA STATE UNIVERS: $15k → 11%HILLEL AT ASU-ARIZONA STATE UNIVERS: $15k → 11%JEWISH ARIZONANS ON CAMPUS: $25k → 11%JEWISH ARIZONANS ON CAMPUS: $25k → 11%JEWISH ARIZONANS ON CAMPUS: $25k → 11%JEWISH ARIZONANS ON CAMPUS: $25k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF: $23k → 11%JEWISH ARIZONANS ON CAMPUS: $23k → 11%JEWISH ARIZONANS ON CAMPUS: $22k → 11%JEWISH ARIZONANS ON CAMPUS: $17k → 11%OLAMI ARIZONA - RISA BRUMER: $17k → 11%JEWISH ARIZONANS ON CAMPUS: $17k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF: $16k → 11%PJ LIBRARY PHOENIX: $15k → 11%PJ LIBRARY PHOENIX: $15k → 11%BUREAU JEWISH EDUCATION OF: $15k → 11%BUREAU JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER: $15k → 11%PJ LIBRARY PHOENIX: $12k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY ASSOC OF GREATER PHX: $12k → 11%PJ LIBRARY PHOENIX: $12k → 11%BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATON OF GREATER PHX: $12k → 11%BUREAU JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER: $11k → 11%BUREAU JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER: $11k → 11%BUREAU JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER: $11k → 11%BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATON OF GREATER PHX: $11k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY ASSOC OF GREATER PHX: $10k → 11%VALLEY BEIT MIDRASH-SPEAKERS PROGRA: $25k → 11%THE WOMENS JEWISH LEARNING CENTER: $16k → 11%VALLEY BEIT MIDRASH-SPEAKERS PROGRA: $25k → 11%THE WOMENS JEWISH LEARNING CENTER: $15k → 11%VALLEY BEIT: $21k → 11%THE WOMENS JEWISH LEARNING CENTER: $15k → 11%VALLEY BEIT MIDRASH-SPEAKERS PROGRA: $20k → 11%THE WOMENS JEWISH LEARNING CENTER: $15k → 11%VALLEY BEIT MIDRASH-LEADERSHIP PROG: $20k → 11%THE WOMENS JEWISH LEARNING CENTER: $15k → 11%VALLEY BEIT MIDRASH-SPEAKERS PROGRA: $20k → 11%VALLEY BEIT: $14k → 11%VALLEY BEIT: $14k → 11%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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$977k · 18 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
6

Total granted

$977k
$69k

Still filing today

22%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
EducationReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WL
    WOMENS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF ARIZONA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $114k · revenue +51%
  • AJ
    Arizona Jewish Historical Society
    6× · 2017–2023 · $33k · revenue ×33
  • BO
    BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER PHOENIX
    2× · 2024–2025 · $23k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • VB
    VALLEY BEIT MIDRASH-LEADERSHIP PROG
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • BJ
    BUREAU JEWISH EDUCATION OF
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • BS
    B'RITH SHALON INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 27 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Jewish Arizonans on Campus: $178,500 · OtherJewish Arizonans on CampusVALLEY BEIT MIDRASH-SPEAKERS PROGRA: $95,000 · OtherVALLEY BEIT MIDRASH-SPEAKERS PROGRAHILLEL AT ASU-ARIZONA STATE UNIVERS: $90,000 · OtherHILLEL AT ASU-ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSIndividual grant recipient: $58,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPJ LIBRARY PHOENIX: $54,000 · OtherPJ LIBRARY PHOENIXIndividual grant recipient: $48,500 · OtherBUREAU JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER: $47,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $43,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF: $38,500 · OtherArizona Jewish Historical Society: $32,500 · OtherMERKOS CHABAD LUBAVITCH-FRIENDSHIP: $31,000 · Other+12 more: $208,000 · Other+12 moreWOMENS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF ARIZONA: $113,500 · EducationWOMENS LEADE…VALLEY BEIT MIDRASH: $10,000 · EducationVALLEY BEIT …BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER PHOENIX: $23,000 · ReligionJEWISH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHOENIX: $22,000 · Philanthropy
Other$924,500Education$123,500Religion$23,000Philanthropy$22,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Arizonans on Campus: $178,500 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetWOMENS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF ARIZONA: $113,500 over 9y, 16% of budgetArizona Jewish Historical Society: $32,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER PHOENIX: $23,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHOENIX: $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetVALLEY BEIT MIDRASH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 Jewish Arizonans on Campus ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds Arizona Jewish Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY BEIT MIDRASH ↗

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.

Jewish Community Asso…Friedel Family Founda…Jewish Community Foun…Arizona Community Fou…The Jess and Sheila S…The Breslow FoundationEdward & Barbara E Ch…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Community Association of Greater PhoenixAZ17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Association of Greater Phoenix · Friedel Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Arizona Community Foundation · The Jess and Sheila Schwartz Family Foundation · The Breslow Foundation · Edward & Barbara E Chulew Private Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ben Mem Trust-Ca funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Goldberg Ben Mem Trust-Ca. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 27 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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