· Private foundation
The Goldberg Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k14 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS | $10,750 |
| 2LIFE COMMUNITIES | $4,600 |
| ELMAR OLIVEIRA INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $600 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $500 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITYBROWN ANNUAL FUND | $500 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD HEBREW CENTER | $500 |
| DANFOREST ART MUSEUM | $500 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - MILTON | $180 |
| CHRIST UNITY CHURCH | $150 |
| TEREZIN MUSIC FOUNDATION | $100 |
| WISCONSIN ALPINE SKI CLUB | $50 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $25 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10 |
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 (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +38% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2022, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- 2C2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC6× · 2017–2022 · $37k · revenue +992%
- BPBoston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporation2× · 2017–2018 · $9k · revenue +28%
- FCFULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC3× · 2019–2021 · $8k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- NANATIONWIDE AUTISM HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $16k
FITCHBURG ART MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -58%- LSLA SALLE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -30%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
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.…
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Education and Research
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of the Arts and the most unlike its peers is Boston Opera Collaborative. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 61 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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. 27 of the 57 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 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporation ↗
- Who funds FULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FITCHBURG ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LA SALLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ELEVAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LASELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds Terezin Music Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WATERSHED CENTER FOR THE CERAMIC ARTS ↗
- Who funds LYNN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds IDEAS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON OPERA COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · 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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 2LIFE Communities Inc — 8% of income from government
- Lasell University — 4% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton — 2% of income from government
- Fitchburg Art Museum — 2% of income from government
- Fuller Craft Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Lynn University Inc — 0% of income from government
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.