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Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$132k
Granted FY2020
18
Grants FY2020
18
Organizations funded FY2020
22%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$4,500
Largest grant, FY2020
$31,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 22
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 22% of the organizations Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsAnimalsMembership 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202018$132k22%
FY201912$50k25%
FY201818$81k33%
FY201722$121kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Religion$67kCrime & Legal$61kArts & Culture$59kEducation$54kPhilanthropy$36kRecreation & Sports$30kHealth$25kYouth Development$13kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Innocence Project Inc: $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIsidore Newman School: $47,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Book Council Inc: $45,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRobin Hood Foundation: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFund for the City of New York Inc: $14,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Canc: $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHenry Street Settlement: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPoets House Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCalifornia State University Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRoundabout Theatre Company Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBideawee Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Actors' Fund of America: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Restoration Project: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQueens College Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPet Pride of New York Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 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 21.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover 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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How do I get to Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Inc 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.

About Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Inc

How much does Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Inc give?
Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Inc reported 18 grants totaling $132,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Religion (17%), Crime & Legal (16%), Arts & Culture (15%).
Who are Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: The Innocence Project Inc ($55k), Isidore Newman School ($47k), Jewish Book Council Inc ($46k).
Does Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Samuel Goldberg & Sons 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 Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Inc based?
Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 35 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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