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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
3
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172020.

Religion$67kCrime & Legal$61kArts & Culture$59kEducation$54kPhilanthropy$36kRecreation & Sports$30kHealth$25kYouth Development$13kOther$0
02FY2020 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k13 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
$4,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jewish Book Council$31,000
Central Park Conservancy$20,000
The Innocence Project Inc$20,000
The Isidore Newman School$12,000
St Germaines Service$10,000
Chinese Missionary Baptist Church$8,000
Robin Hood Foundation$5,000
Boys Town of Jerusalem$5,000
The Fund for the City of New York$4,500
Metropolitan Museum Of Art$3,500
Actors Fund of America$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Southern Poverty Law Center$2,000
RISE (Fund for The City of New York)$2,000
New York Restoration Project$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Henry Street Settlement: $5k → 17%Henry Street Settlement: $4k → 17%The Innocence Project Inc: $20k → 17%The Innocence Project Inc: $15k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $10k → 17%The Innocence Project Inc: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$328k · 19 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
12

Total granted

$328k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+52%

Still filing today

68%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TI
    THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $55k · revenue +135%
  • IN
    ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $47k · revenue +39%
  • JB
    JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $46k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • HF
    HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +52%
  • DS
    Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -26%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Columbia University Press

Enhance Columbia University's education mission by acquiring and publishing outstanding original works by scholars and others that contribute to an understanding of global human concerns. Columbia University Press became part of the…

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
7
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
8
New York Shakespeare Festival

As the nation's foremost producer of shakespeare and new work, the public theater is dedicated to achieving artistic excellence while developing an american theater that is accessible and relevant to all people through productions of…

Arts & Culture
9
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
10
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Inc

The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…

Education
11
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
12
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Street Settlement and the most unlike its peers is Charles B Israel Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 55 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%50%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%36%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
1/23
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,737

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Chinese Missionary Baptist Church — $34,500 · OtherChinese Missionary Baptist ChurchSt Germaines Service — $15,000 · OtherSt Germaines ServiceBoys Town of Jerusalem — $13,000 · OtherBoys Town of JerusalemWALL STREET SYNAGOGUE INC — $6,500 · OtherDominican Sisters of Hawthorne — $6,000 · OtherPet Orphans of So Cal — $5,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $10,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INCEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $6,000 · Other+14 more — $27,000 · Other+14 moreTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJ…HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $9,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTL…JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL INC — $45,500 · Arts & CultureJEWISH BOOK COUNC…POETS HOUSE INC — $5,000 · Arts & CulturePOETS HOUSE INCROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEATR…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $3,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSE…ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL — $47,000 · EducationISIDORE NEWMA…ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $17,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FO…FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $14,500 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE …HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANC — $9,000 · PhilanthropyHIRSHBERG FOU…CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA ST…CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsAmerican Heart Association Inc — $15,000 · Health
Other$123,000Human Services$64,000Arts & Culture$59,000Education$47,000Philanthropy$45,500Recreation & Sports$30,000Health$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOETS HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 budgetQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT — $2,000 over 2y, 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
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 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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