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Gregg and Freddy Goldenberg Family Foundation at a glance

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Gregg and Freddy Goldenberg 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.

$826k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1MCommunity Improvement$700kHousing & Shelter$400kHealth$313kPhilanthropy$248kRecreation & Sports$173kHuman Services$155kEmployment$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$911k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLLECTIVE IMPACT IN NEW HANOVER COUNTY INC$500,000
BEACON EDUCATION INC$125,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$100,000
KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL$100,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE$1,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $1k → 14%GEORGIA CAMPAIGN FOR ADOLESCENT POWER AND POTENTIA: $250 → 13%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

MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 31% of Gregg and Freddy Goldenberg Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Gregg and Freddy Goldenberg Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.1% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 11 repeat orgs$912k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
16

Total granted

$2.0M
$412k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+75%

Still filing today

55%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k 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
Recreation & SportsEducationHealthHuman ServicesReligionPublic 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $500k
  • BE
    BEACON EDUCATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $400k · revenue -66%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    3× · 2021–2023 · $375k

Funded once

  • AP
    AMERICAN PLATFORM TENNIS ASSOCIATIONINCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $130k · revenue +139%
  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION - GA CHAPTER
    one grant, 2023 · $110k
  • MH
    Mary Hall Freedom Village Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $80k · revenue +24%
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
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
2
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
3
Teamability Inc

Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.

Education
4
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
5
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
6
The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration

Promote and fund research into developing better diagnostic processes, therapies, and cures for frontotemporal degeneration (ftd); provide information, education, support and advocacy to persons diagnosed with ftd, their families and…

Health
7
Breakthrough T1D

Breakthrough t1d is the leading global t1d organization working to accelerate life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent, and treat t1d and its complications.

Health
8
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
9
Public School Forum of Nc Inc

All north carolina children shall have the opportunity to reach their full potential through equitable and meaningful public education that nourishes our state's civic and economic vitality.to provide trusted, nonpartisan, evidence-based…

Education
10
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
11
Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
12
Thompson Child & Family Focus Inc

Founded in 1886, thompson child & family focus is called to strengthen children, families, and communitiesdelivering measurable outcomes through healing, teaching, worship, and play. for more than a century, thompson has transformed lives…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Tennessee Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Evace International. 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 31 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE: $500,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMER…UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $375,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLKENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL: $200,000 · OtherKENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOLCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION - GA CHAPTER: $110,000 · OtherCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION - GA CHAPTERRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $100,000 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA+6 more: $28,000 · OtherBEACON EDUCATION INC: $400,000 · EducationBEACON EDUCATION IN…THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $81,000 · EducationTHE LOVETT SCHOOL I…World Leadership Foundation: $25,000 · EducationTEACHUNITED: $25,000 · EducationCOLLECTIVE IMPACT IN NEW HANOVER COUNTY: $500,000 · Public BenefitCOLLECTIVE IMPACT …JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $189,300 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FE…VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER…+2 more: $9,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN PLATFORM TENNIS ASSOCIATIONINC: $130,000 · Recreation & SportsAgape Community Center: $75,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $8,250 · Recreation & SportsCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Health+2 more: $1,500 · HealthMary Hall Freedom Village Inc: $80,000 · Human Services+2 more: $1,250 · Human Services
Other$1,313,000Education$531,000Public Benefit$500,000Philanthropy$248,300Recreation & Sports$223,250Health$201,500Human Services$81,250

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 budgetCOLLECTIVE IMPACT IN NEW HANOVER COUNTY: $500,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetBEACON EDUCATION INC: $400,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $189,300 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN PLATFORM TENNIS ASSOCIATIONINC: $130,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $81,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAgape Community Center: $75,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Leadership Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTEACHUNITED: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY TENNIS FOUNDATION: $7,250 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE: $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUsher 1F Collaborative Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc: $250 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.

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.

The Community Foundat…The Imlay Foundation …United Way of Greater…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…The Chicago Community…Verizon FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Gregg and Freddy Goldenberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gregg and Freddy Goldenberg Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Gregg and Freddy Goldenberg 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 31 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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