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Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc

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.

$161k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
106
Grants FY2025
102
Organizations funded FY2024
12%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
86 to 102
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
13
Total assets, FY2025
$2.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
HealthInternationalArts & CultureCrime & LegalPhilanthropyEmploymentOther
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 arriving102$122k35%
FY2024102$103k12%
FY202396$100k11%
FY202299$94k17%
FY202187$93k8%
FY202086$74k8%
FY201992$85k21%
FY201886$74k16%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$135kHuman Services$105kArts & Culture$95kHealth$91kEducation$76kHousing & Shelter$68kFood & Nutrition$61kRecreation & Sports$44kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IN
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

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

Show all 120 grantees
All grantees of Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New Reach Inc$54,50050%
Guilford Community Fund$27,00092%
The Guilford Art Center Inc$21,95090%
Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc$18,00060%
Connecticut Foodshare Inc$16,50080%
Guilford a Better Chance Inc Guilford a Better Chance Inc$10,70090%
Connecticut Children's Medical Center$10,50080%
Guilford Land Conservation Trust Inc$10,50092%
Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen Inc$10,00060%
Meals-On-Wheels Inc$9,50080%
Marrakech Inc$9,00090%
Sound Life Connections Inc$8,50032%
Trustees of Boston University$8,35080%
The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc$8,30090%
Columbus House Inc$8,25090%
Saint Michael's College$8,00090%
Apostle Immigrant Services$7,50091%
Hias Inc$7,00050%
Sandy Hook Promise Foundation$7,00070%
New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc$6,50050%
Alight$6,00030%
National Scleroderma Foundation Inc$6,00050%
Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc$6,00060%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$5,50090%
Bikes for Kids Inc$5,50091%
Ethan Miller Song Foundation Inc$5,15052%
Temple Israel Westport Inc$5,0004n/a
Fractured Atlas Inc$5,00010%
Dudley Foundation Inc$5,00071%
Roots 4 Relief$4,8008n/a
Guilford Fund for Education Inc$4,60082%
The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/A Long Wharf Theatre$4,50090%
Read to Grow Inc$4,50090%
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust$4,50090%
North Guilford Nursery School Inc$4,50041%
Mystic Seaport Museum Inc$4,50090%
Connecticut Science Center Inc$4,50090%
Cure Rare Disease Inc$4,50070%
Shoreline Arts Alliance Inc$4,50090%
Committee on Temporary Shelter Inc$4,30090%
Special Olympics Connecticut Inc$4,25090%
Power Clean Recovery Corp$4,00040%
Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc$3,80090%
Guilford Preservation Alliance Inc$3,75073%
Shoreline Greenway Trail Inc$3,75091%
Central Synagogue$3,5003n/a
Anti-Defamation League$3,50070%
Sarah Foundation Inc$3,50070%
The Guilford Keeping Society$3,50072%
Solar Youth Inc$3,50060%
Domus Kids Inc$3,50070%
The Legacy Theatre Inc$3,05030%
American Diabetes Association$3,00090%
VNA Community Healthcare Inc$3,00040%
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc$3,00070%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$2,85070%
Birthright Israel Foundation$2,80080%
A Place Called Hope Inc$2,75060%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$2,50010%
New York Botanical Garden$2,07590%
Nami of Connecticut Inc$2,05040%
National Immigration Law Center$2,00040%
Leap$2,0001n/a
National Women's Law Center$2,00040%
Common Cause Education Fund$2,00040%
Valley Shore YMCA Inc$2,00070%
Junta for Progressive Action Inc$2,00040%
Connecticut Children's Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Yale New Haven Hospital$1,90030%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$1,90040%
The Guilford Volunteer Fire Dept Inc$1,85080%
New Britain Museum of American Art Inc$1,75070%
Guilford Agricultural Society Inc Guilford Agricultural Society Inc$1,50022%
Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights$1,50020%
The Connecticut Hospice Inc$1,45060%
Art Council of Greater New Haven Inc$1,25030%
Project Avary Inc Alternative Ventures for at Risk Youth$1,25010%
Menunkatuck Audubon Society Inc$1,1003n/a
Mdrc$1,10030%
Charity Navigator$1,05040%
Lower East Side Tenement Museum$1,00040%
Save The Children Federation Inc$1,00020%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$1,00020%
Habitat for Humanity Inc$1,0001n/a
Literacy Volunteers Valley Shore Ct Inc$1,00011%
Habitat for Humanity of Greater New Haven Inc$1,0001n/a
Fellowship Place Inc$1,00020%
The Towers Foundation Inc$1,00020%
James Vick Foundation Inc$1,0002n/a
Discover Your Path Inc$1,0001n/a
Lumibility Inc$1,00020%
Kidz Konnection Inc$1,00010%
Guilford Police Benevolent Association$950619%
Guilford Community Television$8252n/a
Hope After Loss Inc$80030%
Faulkners Light Brigade Inc$7503n/a
The Barack Obama Foundation$70020%
Dudley Foundation Inc$60020%
The Community Nursery School Inc$50010%
Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra$50010%
Shelburne Farms$50020%
Teaching for Change$50010%
The Brain Aneurysm Foundation Inc$5001n/a
Branford Food Pantry$50010%
A Broken Umbrella Theatre Inc$45021%
Connecticut Mental Health Center Foundation Inc$35020%
Lets Help Inc$25010%
Connecticut Veterans Legal Center Inc$25010%
The Brian Dagle Foundation Inc$25030%
Shoreline Theatrical Arts$25012%
Greenfield Community Television Inc$25010%
Veterans of Foreign Wars Hannon Hatch Post 9929$20010%
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$20020%
Town of Branford$2001n/a
Share Our Strength$10010%
Church World Service Inc$10010%
Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife Inc$10010%
Connecticut Brain Tumor Alliance Inc$10010%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$5010%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$5010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 91 recipients with no EIN on record ($330k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Reach Inc: $54,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGuilford Community Fund: $27,000 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetThe Guilford Art Center Inc: $21,950 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Foodshare Inc: $16,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGuilford a Better Chance Inc Guilford a Better Chance Inc: $10,700 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetConnecticut Children's Medical Center: $10,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGuilford Land Conservation Trust Inc: $10,500 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetDowntown Evening Soup Kitchen Inc: $10,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMeals-On-Wheels Inc: $9,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMarrakech Inc: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSound Life Connections Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $8,350 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc: $8,300 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetColumbus House Inc: $8,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Michael's College: $8,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetApostle Immigrant Services: $7,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetHias Inc: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSandy Hook Promise Foundation: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNew Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc: $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAlight: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Scleroderma Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $5,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBikes for Kids Inc: $5,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetEthan Miller Song Foundation Inc: $5,150 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDudley Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetGuilford Fund for Education Inc: $4,600 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetThe Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/A Long Wharf Theatre: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRead to Grow Inc: $4,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Guilford Nursery School Inc: $4,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMystic Seaport Museum Inc: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Science Center Inc: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCure Rare Disease Inc: $4,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetShoreline Arts Alliance Inc: $4,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCommittee on Temporary Shelter Inc: $4,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Connecticut Inc: $4,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPower Clean Recovery Corp: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGoodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc: $3,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGuilford Preservation Alliance Inc: $3,750 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetShoreline Greenway Trail Inc: $3,750 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSarah Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Guilford Keeping Society: $3,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetSolar Youth Inc: $3,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDomus Kids Inc: $3,500 over 7y, 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 107.

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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.

The Community Foundation for Greater New HavenCT49.6× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Guilford Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · Yale University · The Stoddard Family Foundation · MFUND Inc · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc

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 Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc

How much does Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc give?
Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc reported 106 grants totaling $160,955 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 86 and 102 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (17%), Human Services (13%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New Reach Inc ($55k), Guilford Community Fund ($27k), The Guilford Art Center Inc ($22k).
Does Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc 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 Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Newalliance Foundation Inc, The Guilford Foundation Inc.
Where is Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc based?
Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc is based in CT.

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 216 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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