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Herbert & Barbara Goldberg 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.

$56k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
60%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,600
Largest grant, FY2025
$18,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Herbert & Barbara Goldberg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHealthHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$56k36%
FY202415$69k60%
FY202311$57k27%
FY20229$24k22%
FY202111$67k0%
FY202017$71k53%
FY201912$70k50%
FY201812$72k25%
84% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$241kHealth$170kPhilanthropy$52kEducation$13kYouth Development$10kInternational$9kArts & Culture$8kCivil Rights$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
NY
MA
RI
CA
CO
MD
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
At the Well Project Inc$120,00054%
Moishe House$43,00030%
Gateways Access to Jewish Education Inc$10,80020%
Jewish Theological Seminary of America$10,4405n/a
Temple Emanuel of Newton$9,6002n/a
National Yiddish Book Center Inc$7,40040%
Hias Inc$5,40010%
Project Kesher$5,40020%
Children's Hospital Corporation$4,00010%
Impactisrael Inc$1,80010%
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All grantees of Herbert & Barbara Goldberg Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
At the Well Project Inc$120,00054%
Moishe House$43,00030%
Gateways Access to Jewish Education Inc$10,80020%
Jewish Theological Seminary of America$10,4405n/a
Temple Emanuel of Newton$9,6002n/a
National Yiddish Book Center Inc$7,40040%
Hias Inc$5,40010%
Project Kesher$5,40020%
Children's Hospital Corporation$4,00010%
Impactisrael Inc$1,80010%
Camp Bauercrest Inc$1,80010%
Israel Tennis Centers Foundation Inc$1,80010%
Hebrew College$1,80010%
Boston Jewish Film Inc$1,00010%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$1,0001n/a
Makhela Inc$9002n/a
Friends of the Holyoke Merry-Go-Round Inc$86011%
National Kidney Foundation Inc$60010%
Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America Inc$60010%
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations$36010%
Seasons Hospice Foundation$18010%
Heritage Academy Inc$1501n/a
Temple Emunah$1361n/a
Ruths House Inc$5410%
Parkinson Association of the Rockies$5010%
Hadassah the Womens Zionist Organization of Americ$251n/a
Aleppo Shriners$101n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($324k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Herbert & Barbara Goldberg Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAt the Well Project Inc: $120,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetMoishe House: $43,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGateways Access to Jewish Education Inc: $10,800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNational Yiddish Book Center Inc: $7,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $5,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Kesher: $5,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetImpactisrael Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Bauercrest Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIsrael Tennis Centers Foundation Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew College: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Jewish Film Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Holyoke Merry-Go-Round Inc: $860 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMyasthenia Gravis Foundation of America Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeasons Hospice Foundation: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRuths House Inc: $54 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson Association of the Rockies: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Herbert & Barbara Goldberg Foundation

How much does Herbert & Barbara Goldberg Foundation give?
Herbert & Barbara Goldberg Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $55,515 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Herbert & Barbara Goldberg Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (42%), Health (29%), Philanthropy (9%).
Who are Herbert & Barbara Goldberg Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: At the Well Project Inc ($120k), Moishe House ($43k), Gateways Access to Jewish Education Inc ($11k).
Does Herbert & Barbara Goldberg Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Herbert & Barbara Goldberg Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Herbert & Barbara Goldberg Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, The Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation.
Where is Herbert & Barbara Goldberg Foundation based?
Herbert & Barbara Goldberg Foundation is based in MA.

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 61 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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