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The Frank M & Lee Goldberg Foundation at a glance

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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.

$757k
Granted FY2023
13
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

6
’20
5
’21
9
’22
11
’23
0
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.5MArts & Culture$470kHuman Services$447kReligion$365kHealth$134kEducation$63kCivil Rights$10kFood & Nutrition$1k
02FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $631k
$49,800
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION$150,000
SAN DIEGO OPERA ASSOCIATION$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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOME OF GUIDING HANDS: $5k → 11%HOME OF GUIDING HANDS: $1k → 11%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 11 repeat orgs$150k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +43% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
4

Total granted

$1.6M
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+43%

Still filing today

64%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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

  • SF
    SEACREST FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $360k · revenue +232%
  • NC
    NORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +95%
  • WA
    Words Alive
    3× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • FL
    FUTURE LEGENDSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +43%
  • SM
    SD MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +61%
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
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
2
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

—
3
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
4
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

—
5
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

—
6
Torah High Schools of San Diego

the organization was created to operate a high school serving the Jewish community of San Diego. Our mission is to prepare individuals for a lifetime of learning, spiritual growth, and community responsibility as Jews. Our goal is to…

Education
7
San Diego Center for Jewish Culture

San diego center for jewish culture ("cjc") is a california 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that was incorporated in january 1999. cjc is housed at lawrence family jewish community centers of san diego county. cjc provides a wide…

Arts & Culture
8
Hebrew Free Loan of San Diego

Hebrew free loan of san diego fosters financial stability and opportunity among the jewish community of san diego county by providing access to affordable interest free loans with jewish values of compassion, kindness, and flexibility.…

—
9
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
10
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
11
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

At la jolla institute for immunology, our scientists focus on understanding how the immune system works in order to promote human health and prevent disease. our discoveries apply to many diseases, ranging from diabetes to heart disease,…

—
12
Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego

To collaborate with individuals and organizations, and leverage philanthropic capital for positive impact. to combine donor-driven philanthropy, investing, and education with trusted, personalized service, enabling individuals and…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc San Diego Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 20 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,331,414 · OtherTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONHILLEL OF SAN DIEGO: $270,000 · OtherHILLEL OF SAN DIEGOJEWISH FEDERATION: $215,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATIONCONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL: $95,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $81,000 · Other+3 more: $18,000 · OtherSan Diego Opera Association: $314,640 · Arts & CultureSan Diego Opera As…NORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE: $150,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH COAST REPERT…Words Alive: $40,000 · Arts & CultureWords AliveSEACREST FOUNDATION: $360,000 · PhilanthropySEACREST FOUN…+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropySANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $110,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $21,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthFUTURE LEGENDS: $10,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $10,000 · Civil RightsHOME OF GUIDING HANDS CORPORATION: $6,000 · Human Services
Other$2,010,414Arts & Culture$504,640Philanthropy$361,000Health$132,000Education$12,500Civil Rights$10,000Human Services$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSEACREST FOUNDATION: $360,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetSan Diego Opera Association: $314,640 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetHILLEL OF SAN DIEGO: $270,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetNORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE: $150,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $110,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWords Alive: $40,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFUTURE LEGENDS: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOME OF GUIDING HANDS CORPORATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaring Community Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO: $1,000 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.

Jewish Community Foun…The San Diego Foundat…Leichtag FoundationRancho Santa Fe Found…Kerr Family FoundationAllison and Robert Pr…The Cushman FoundationThe Conrad Prebys Fou…Sempra FoundationThe Arthur & Barbara …The Parker FoundationPrice Philanthropies …
Jewish Community Foundation of San DiegoCA23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Frank M & Lee Goldberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frank M & Lee Goldberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Frank M & Lee Goldberg Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Frank M & Lee Goldberg Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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