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Raymond and Ellen Goldberg Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Raymond and Ellen 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.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$47kPhilanthropy$30kHealth$23kEmployment$17kEducation$13kFood & Nutrition$5kYouth Development$4kHuman Services$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $1k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$400
Median grant
2
States reached
$51k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAR ZION TEMPLE$12,434
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES$10,000
FEEDTHEPEOPLE215 OUTREACH$500
RAYMOND GOLDBERG '51 SCHOLARSHIP FUND$400
THE DO-GOODERS$125
FRIENDS OF AACR ADDRESS$100
CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING$100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $10k → 7%JESPY HOUSE: $250 → 16%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1k → 7%WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND: $300 → 22%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.
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$85k · 5 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
21

Total granted

$85k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+5%

Still filing today

40%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • HZ
    HAR ZION TEMPLE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $59k
  • RG
    RAYMOND GOLDBERG '51 SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    5× · 2021–2025 · $12k
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH
    2× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • TU
    The Unicorn Childrens Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue -92%
  • BR
    Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue -58%
  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
National Jewish Health

National Jewish Health's mission since 1899 is to heal, discover and educate as a preeminent healthcare institution. We serve by providing the best integrated and innovative care for patients and their families; by understanding and…

Health
4
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
5
Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc

To empower new yorkers, providing integrated mental health and social services with compassion and expertise.

Human Services
6
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
7
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
8
Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…

Health
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
11
Health Careers Futures

Primary exempt purpose - to ensure the future of southwestern pennsylvania's health care industry and to work collaboratively with all stakeholders to attract, support, and retain healthcare workers

Health
12
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh; the most unlike its peers is The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation 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

16 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. 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAR ZION TEMPLE: $59,033 · OtherHAR ZION TEMPLEThe Unicorn Childrens Foundation: $16,668 · OtherThe Unicorn Childrens FoundationRAYMOND GOLDBERG '51 SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $12,400 · OtherRAYMOND GOLDBERG '51 SCHOLARSHIP FUNDJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY: $10,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTYSHORE MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 · OtherA MEANINGFUL PURPOSE AT REED'S FARM: $5,000 · Other+11 more: $3,325 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $20,250 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERA…Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $16,647 · Community ImprovementBoca Raton …JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $11,000 · Human Services+2 more: $550 · Human ServicesRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2,100 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $500 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $300 · HealthBARCLAY FRIENDS: $250 · HealthWOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $500 · EducationMEOR INC: $500 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $100 · EducationPLAY FOR PINK INC: $100 · Crime & Legal
Other$111,426Philanthropy$20,250Community Improvement$16,647Human Services$11,550Health$3,150Youth Development$3,000Education$1,100Crime & Legal$100

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $20,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Unicorn Childrens Foundation: $16,668 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $16,647 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEOR INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARCLAY FRIENDS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJESPY HOUSE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC: $100 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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Raymond and Ellen Goldberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Raymond and Ellen Goldberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Jespy House Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report 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.

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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