· Private foundation
The Alan Goldberg Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| ALBANY INSTITUTE HISTORY & ART | $2,000 |
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION | $1,500 |
| ALBANY PRO MUSICA | $1,000 |
| PALACE THEATRE | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALBANY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TUFTS UNIVERSITY FUND | $1,000 |
| CAPITAL REPERTORY THEATRE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- APAlbany Pro Musica Inc4× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +69%
- RFREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC2× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +24%
- BCBowdoin College3× · 2021–2023 · $6k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- PPPALACE PERFORMANCE ART CENTERone grant, 2021 · $19k
- RFREGIONAL FOOD BANKSone grant, 2021 · $5k
- PPPARK PLAYHOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +253%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the Binghamton Philharmonic is building community through the power of live music.
The albany symphony orchestra celebrates our living musical heritage. through brilliant live performances, innovative educational programming, and engaging cultural events, the albany symphony enriches a broad & diverse regional community.…
Productions
CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.
To preserve, present and promote the history and culture of Albany County, New York
To inspire, educate, and engage the community and local talent through the power of musical theater.
To engage and inspire community members throughout Central New York through outstanding orchestra and ensemble performances, and innovative education and outreach initiatives.
Saratoga arts was established to enrich the region by cultivating a vibrant arts community and by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.
Syracuse stage tells stories that engage, entertain, and inspire us to see life beyond our own experiences.
To produce a diverse body of theatrical work of the highest artistic standards. with a focus on dramatic storytelling that illuminates the human journey, the theatre entertains, engages and challenges local and regional audiences of all…
To provide food and auxiliary services (vending, bookstore, linen, etc) to faculty, staff, and students at the university at albany.
The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Albany Institute of History and Art and the most unlike its peers is Bowdoin College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 15 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Albany Pro Musica Inc ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds ALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ART ↗
- Who funds THE PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARK PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL REPERTORY COMPANY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: John D Picotte Family Foundation (Formerly Equinox Foundation) · Kiwi Foundation · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Review Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 The Alan Goldberg Charitable Trust 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.
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.