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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 you fund
0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

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

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your 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 UNIVERSITY: $20k → 11%HILLEL AT ASU-ARIZONA STATE UNIVERS: $20k → 11%HILLEL FDN FOR JEWISH CAMPUS: $20k → 11%HILLEL AT ASU-ARIZONA STATE UNIVERS: $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%OLAMI ARIZONA - RISA BRUMER: $17k → 11%JEWISH ARIZONANS ON CAMPUS: $17k → 11%JEWISH ARIZONANS ON CAMPUS: $17k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF: $16k → 11%PJ LIBRARY PHOENIX: $15k → 11%BUREAU JEWISH EDUCATION OF: $15k → 11%PJ LIBRARY PHOENIX: $15k → 11%BUREAU JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER: $15k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY ASSOC OF GREATER PHX: $12k → 11%PJ LIBRARY PHOENIX: $12k → 11%BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATON OF GREATER PHX: $12k → 11%PJ LIBRARY PHOENIX: $12k → 11%BUREAU JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER: $11k → 11%BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATON OF GREATER PHX: $11k → 11%BUREAU JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER: $11k → 11%BUREAU JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER: $11k → 11%JEWISH COMM ASSOC OF GREATER PHOENI: $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

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.

03Your 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve 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

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

  • 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

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

04Your field
04the grantee network

7 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 20172025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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
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 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

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.

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

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 Goldberg Ben Mem Trust-Ca 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your 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, FY2025

    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.

    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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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