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The Frank M & Lee 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Frank M & Lee Goldberg Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Jewish Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Frank M & Lee Goldberg Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $757k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $631k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN DIEGO OPERA ASSOCIATION | $150,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $150,000 |
| SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS | $110,000 |
| SEACREST FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE | $65,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $56,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL | $49,800 |
| WORDS ALIVE | $25,000 |
| HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| FUTURE LEGENDS | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
- SFSEACREST FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $360k · revenue +232%
- NCNORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +95%
- WAWords Alive3× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- FLFUTURE LEGENDSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +43%
- SMSD MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2021 · $5k
- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +61%
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.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 20 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 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEACREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds San Diego Opera Association ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds NORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Words Alive ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FUTURE LEGENDS ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HOME OF GUIDING HANDS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Caring Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Kerr Family Foundation · Allison and Robert Price Family Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Arthur & Barbara Bloom Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation
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 Frank M & Lee Goldberg Foundation 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.
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