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Goldberg Family Foundation

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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$825k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$5.5MHealth$5.4MPublic Benefit$1.2MYouth Development$255kScience & Tech$248kPhilanthropy$100kCivil Rights$63kArts & Culture$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $785k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.1M
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$23k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL$825,000
V FOUNDATION$500,000
THE BARACK H OBAMA FOUNDATION$400,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS$400,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$200,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$125,000
THE CANARY FUND$125,000
CASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION$85,000
MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA$50,000
DC ENGLISH LANGUAGE CHARTER$50,000
EATLEARNPLAY FOUNDATION$50,000
AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION$50,000
SQUASH ON TRACK$50,000
SCRATCH FOUNDATION$25,000
FEMINIST MAJORITY$25,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 31% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD: $173k → 8%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $170k → 16%CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL: $825k → 7%CASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $513k → 8%EATLEARNPLAY FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%BRCA FOUNDATION: $500k → 10%ART OF PROBLEM SOLVING FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $125k → 17%AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $400k → 11%V FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 8%PANORAMA GLOBAL: $50k → 9%THE BARACK H OBAMA FOUNDATION: $419k → 9%SCRATCH FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL: $700k → 7%CASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $460k → 8%EATLEARNPLAY FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $125k → 17%DC ENGLISH LANGUAGE CHARTER: $50k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $250k → 11%V FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 8%THE BARACK H OBAMA FOUNDATION: $400k → 9%SCRATCH FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL: $250k → 7%CASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $170k → 8%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $105k → 17%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $250k → 11%V FOUNDATION: $600k → 8%THE BARACK H OBAMA FOUNDATION: $333k → 9%SCRATCH FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL: $125k → 7%CASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $85k → 8%SQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $25k → 17%V FOUNDATION: $500k → 8%CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL: $100k → 7%CASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $85k → 8%SQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $25k → 17%V FOUNDATION: $300k → 8%CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL: $50k → 7%FEMINIST MAJORITY: $25k → 14%V FOUNDATION: $250k → 8%THE CANARY FUND: $375k → 7%FEMINIST MAJORITY: $25k → 14%THE CANARY FUND: $125k → 7%SQUASH ON TRACK: $50k → 7%SQUASH ON TRACK: $50k → 7%SQUASH ON TRACK: $50k → 7%WOODSIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%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

WA
NY
MA
CA
MO
VA
MD
NC
DC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Goldberg Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 47% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 43%.

Goldberg Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 18 repeat orgs$880k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
7

Total granted

$11M
$780k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+20%

Still filing today

83%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • TV
    THE V FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +84%
  • CS
    CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +56%
  • CS
    CASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • BF
    BRCA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue 0%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $170k · revenue +13%
  • PG
    PANORAMA GLOBALgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +50%
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
The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health
3
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
4
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
5
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
6
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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7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
9
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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10
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
11
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
12
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The V Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL: $2,050,000 · EducationCRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOLCASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,313,246 · EducationCASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATIONWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $900,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $545,784 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR U…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $499,998 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONNew York University: $355,000 · EducationNew York University+4 more: $403,447 · Education+4 moreTHE V FOUNDATION: $3,667,220 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATIONDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $169,593 · Health+1 more: $60,000 · HealthBARACK H OBAMA FOUNDATION: $1,152,465 · OtherBARACK H OBAMA FO…BRCA FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherBRCA FOUNDATIONART OF PROBLEM SOLVING FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Other+7 more: $277,500 · Other+7 moreTHE CANARY FUND DBA CANARY FOUNDATION: $500,000 · PhilanthropyEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropySQUASH ON TRACK: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentScratch Foundation: $75,000 · Science & TechPANORAMA GLOBAL: $50,000 · International
Education$6,067,475Health$3,896,813Other$2,004,965Philanthropy$600,000Youth Development$160,000Science & Tech$75,000International$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $3,667,220 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetCRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL: $2,050,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,313,246 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $900,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $545,784 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CANARY FUND DBA CANARY FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $499,998 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $355,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $173,447 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $169,593 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSQUASH ON TRACK: $150,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $125,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSQUASHDRIVE: $80,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetScratch Foundation: $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFEMINIST MAJORITY: $62,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetELLISON INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPANORAMA GLOBAL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWOODSIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Ayco Charitable F…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Paypal Charitable Giv…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA19.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Goldberg Family Foundation. 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Goldberg Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 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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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home