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The Goldberg Family Foundation at a glance

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The Goldberg Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$280k
Granted FY2017
18
Grants FY2017
4
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

86% of The Goldberg Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Combined Jewish Philanthropies Of Greater Boston Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year The Goldberg Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $280k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

12
’17
11
’18
12
’20
9
’21
3
’22
3
’23
4
’24
3
’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, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$6.1MReligion$632kHealth$604kEducation$318kEnvironment$254kPublic Benefit$12kHuman Services$4kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2017 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k14 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION KEHILLATH ISRAEL$104,768
UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY$95,000
PUTNEY SCHOOL$50,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA - MASSACHUSETTS$10,000
BERSHIRE HILLS MUSIC ACADEMY$6,250
BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL$5,000
PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION$2,000
EDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE$2,000
SPORTMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER$2,000
BOSTON COLLEGE CAROLL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT$1,500
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$540
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS$360
COMMONWEALTH INSTITUTE INC$250
OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND$180
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$150
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL: $5k → 7%ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD: $45k → 8%TRUSTEES OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%BERSHIRE HILLS MUSIC ACADEMY: $6k → 12%EDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE: $5k → 16%PUTNEY SCHOOL: $50k → 11%ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD: $10k → 8%TRUSTEES OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%BERKSHIRE HILLS MUSIC ACADEMY: $6k → 12%PUTNEY SCHOOL: $50k → 11%BERKSHIRE HILLS MUSIC ACADEMY: $6k → 12%PUTNEY SCHOOL: $50k → 11%WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER: $100k → 8%PUTNEY SCHOOL: $50k → 11%WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER: $50k → 8%PUTNEY SCHOOL: $25k → 11%CONGREGATION KEHILLATH ISRAEL: $105k → 7%ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD: $45k → 8%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 16%CONGREGATION KEHILLATH ISRAEL: $91k → 7%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 16%CONGREGATION KEHILLATH ISRAEL: $80k → 7%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 16%CONGREGATION KEHILLATH ISRAEL: $72k → 7%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 16%CONGREGATION KEHILLATH ISRAEL: $72k → 7%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 16%CONGREGATION KEHILLATH ISRAEL: $72k → 7%CONGREGATION KEHILLATH ISRAEL: $70k → 7%CONGREGATION KEHILLATH ISRAEL: $70k → 7%TEACH FOR AMERICA - MASSACHUSETTS: $10k → 16%TEACH FOR AMERICA - MASSACHUSETTS: $10k → 16%UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY: $95k → 16%UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY: $95k → 16%UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY: $95k → 16%UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY: $95k → 16%MSCPA - ANGELL: $20k → 16%MSCPA - ANGELL: $20k → 16%MSCPA - ANGELL: $20k → 16%MSCPA - ANGELL: $20k → 16%MSCPA - ANGELL: $20k → 16%COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES: $1.1M → 16%COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES: $989k → 16%COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES: $954k → 16%COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES: $847k → 16%COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES: $804k → 16%COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES: $685k → 16%COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES: $365k → 16%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 24 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +86% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2017, 9 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, 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

24
12

Total granted

$2.2M
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
+34%

Still filing today

58%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +64%
  • PS
    PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +47%
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc
    2× · 2020–2022 · $150k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • DF
    DANA FARBER CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • TS
    THE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +273%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY - PALM BEACH
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

—
3
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
7
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
8
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
9
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

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10
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
11
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
12
Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce

To improve the business, social and civic environment of the greater boston area and to become the leading representative in the boston area in the consideration of local, state and national issues.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is General Israel Orphan Home for Girls. 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

26 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. 26 of the 41 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
23/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $5,736,238 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $380,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc+4 more: $26,000 · PhilanthropyCONGREGATION KEHILLATH ISRAEL: $631,176 · OtherCONGREGATION K…PUTNEY SCHOOL INC: $225,000 · OtherPUTNEY SCHOOL …MSCPA - ANGELL: $100,000 · OtherMSCPA - ANGELL+21 more: $83,303 · Other+21 moreBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $500,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $150,000 · Science & TechASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC: $103,000 · Environment+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentBERKSHIRE HILLS MUSIC ACADEMY INC: $18,750 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $450 · EducationEDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$6,142,238Other$1,039,479Health$501,000Science & Tech$150,000Environment$103,500Education$29,200Arts & Culture$14,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $5,736,238 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $380,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPUTNEY SCHOOL INC: $225,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC: $103,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBERKSHIRE HILLS MUSIC ACADEMY INC: $18,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CAPE COD INC: $10,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $2,520 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC: $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE AND ISLANDS UNITED WAY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S EDGE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach Civic Association Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD CLUB OF BOSTON: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGENERAL ISRAEL ORPHAN HOME FOR GIRLS: $3 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.

Combined Jewish Phila…Joseph and Rae Gann C…Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…The Chicago Community…Vanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Bank of America C…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Berkshire Hills Music Academy Inc: 63% of income from government
  • Jewish Vocational Service Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Goldberg Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Goldberg Family 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 41 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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