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Goldberger 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 FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Religion$615kInternational$104kPhilanthropy$82kEducation$50kArts & Culture$38kHealth$30kHuman Services$7kCommunity Improvement$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$205k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE$52,000
YOUNG ISRAEL OF NORTH BEVERLY HILLS$10,000
FRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI$10,000
YINBH OF BEVERLY HILLS$7,990
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$1,000
JBS$1,000
LANIADO SANZ MEDICAL CENTER$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
PROVIDENCE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL$750
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAAREI TZED$500
JDAC$500
NEW ENGLAND ACADEMY OF TORAH$500
BEVERLY HILLS POLICE OFFICERS BEN F$250
WIZO$118
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL: $10k → 6%CONGREGATION JEWISH LEARNING: $13k → 13%Southern NCSY: $5k → 11%FRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI: $10k → 7%CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL: $5k → 6%AMERICAN JEWISH UNIV(AJU): $25k → 14%CHEVRA KADISHA MORTUARY: $8k → 14%YOUNG ISRAEL OF CENTURY CITY: $51k → 14%YOUNG ISRAEL OF CENTURY CITY: $26k → 14%YOUNG ISRAEL OF CENTURY CITY: $26k → 14%YOUNG ISRAEL OF CENTURY CITY: $25k → 14%SIMON WEISENTHAL CNTR MUSEUM CORP: $25k → 14%ORTHODOX UNION: $15k → 14%ORTHODOX UNION: $13k → 14%ORTHODOX UNION: $10k → 14%YOUNG ISRAEL OF CENTURY CITY: $9k → 14%CHABAD ISRAEL CENTER: $7k → 14%CHABAD ISRAEL CENTER: $7k → 14%CHABAD ISRAEL CENTER: $6k → 14%AISH LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%YINBH OF BEVERLY HILLS: $37k → 14%YINBH BEVERLY HILLS SYNAGOGUE: $27k → 14%YINBH OF BEVERLY HILLS: $24k → 14%YINBH OF BEVERLY HILLS: $20k → 14%YOUNG ISRAEL YINBH: $19k → 14%YINBH OF BEVERLY HILLS: $16k → 14%YINBH OF BEVERLY HILLS: $10k → 14%YOUNG ISRAEL OF NORTH BEVERLY HILLS: $10k → 14%YOUNG ISRAEL YINBH: $10k → 14%YINBH OF BEVERLY HILLS: $8k → 14%YINBH BEVERLY HILLS SYNAGOGUE: $6k → 14%HILLEL HEBREW ACADEMY: $25k → 14%HILLEL HEBREW ACADEMY: $25k → 14%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION: $36k → 14%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION: $15k → 14%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION: $10k → 14%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION: $7k → 14%THE JEWISH FEDERATION: $21k → 14%GINDI MAIMONIDES ACADEMY: $20k → 14%GINDI MAIMONIDES ACADEMY: $20k → 14%THE JEWISH FEDERATION: $10k → 14%THE JEWISH FEDERATION: $10k → 14%GINDI MAIMONIDES ACADEMY: $10k → 14%THE JEWISH FEDERATION: $10k → 14%GINDI MAIMONIDES ACADEMY: $10k → 14%THE JEWISH FEDERATION: $10k → 14%THE JEWISH FEDERATION: $10k → 14%THE JEWISH FEDERATION: $10k → 14%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

IL
NY
MA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
DC
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$844k · 38 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
36

Total granted

$844k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+69%

Still filing today

26%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationReligionHealthCrime & LegalPublic BenefitOther
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

  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    3× · 2021–2024 · $62k · revenue +113%
  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    3× · 2018–2021 · $18k · revenue +145%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • AJ
    AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -9%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
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
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Sherit Isroel
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3
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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5
Friends of Institute for Zionist

The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…

International
6
Jewish Year Abroad

To provide an education based program in israel for college age jewish young adults that will instill students with a sense of purpose, commitment & pride about

International
7
Us Israel Education Fund Inc
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8
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
9
Bais Yisrael Foundation
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10
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
11
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Bar-Ilan University; the most unlike its peers is Diamond Club West Coast Inc. 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

21 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. 21 of the 81 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAEL: $139,570 · OtherNATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAELYINBH OF BEVERLY HILLS: $120,217 · OtherYINBH OF BEVERLY HILLSTHE JEWISH FEDERATION: $81,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONBETH JACOB CONGREGATION: $70,910 · OtherBETH JACOB CONGREGATIONHILLEL HEBREW ACADEMY: $50,000 · OtherHILLEL HEBREW ACADEMYORTHODOX UNION: $38,475 · OtherSIMON WEISENTHAL CNTR MUSEUM CORP: $36,800 · OtherYINBH BEVERLY HILLS SYNAGOGUE: $33,523 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $32,905 · Other+55 more: $149,524 · Other+55 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $62,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF T…Central Fund of Israel: $18,160 · InternationalCentral Fund…FRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI: $10,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF N…ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $5,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $3,500 · International+2 more: $3,000 · InternationalGindi Maimonides Academy: $60,000 · Religion+2 more: $1,750 · ReligionAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $6,500 · Education+2 more: $800 · EducationCHAI LIFELINE INC: $1,000 · HealthALL FROM THE HEART INC: $1,000 · Public BenefitThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$752,924International$101,660Religion$61,750Education$32,300Health$1,000Public Benefit$1,000Arts & Culture$1,000

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 budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $62,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $18,160 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL AIRFORCE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALL FROM THE HEART INC: $1,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND ACADEMY OF TORAH INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIAMOND CLUB WEST COAST INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE RETREATS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBHPOA BENEVOLENT FUND: $25 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 FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds Gindi Maimonides Academy ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL AIRFORCE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗

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 Foun…Jewish Communal FundThe Stanley & Joyce B…Jewish Federation Cou…California Community …Davmarn FoundationJack and Gitta Nagel …Lee and Anne Samson C…The Sassoon Family Fo…Hager FoundationEmil & Gail Kestenbau…Natalie & Jonathan Ge…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA30.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Communal Fund · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · California Community Foundation · Davmarn Foundation · Jack and Gitta Nagel Foundation · Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation · The Sassoon Family Foundation · Hager Foundation · Emil & Gail Kestenbaum Family Foundation · Natalie & Jonathan Gerber Family 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 Goldberger Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Goldberger Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%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
    1get no government money at all
    4report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Goldberger Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Goldberger 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 81 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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