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The Goldberg Foundation at a glance

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The Goldberg Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2022
15
Grants FY2022
6
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$54kHousing & Shelter$37kEducation$32kHealth$16kHuman Services$2kReligion$1kPhilanthropy$1kCommunity Improvement$500Other$0
02FY2022 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k14 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$61k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BROWN UNIVERSITYBROWN ANNUAL FUND$500
MARTHA'S VINEYARD HEBREW CENTER$500
DANFOREST ART MUSEUM$500
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$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
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 (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BROOKLINE SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 7%FULLER CRAFT MUSEUM: $8k → 8%DANFOREST ART MUSEUM: $1k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD HEBREW CENTER: $500 → 8%FITCHBURG ART MUSEUM: $8k → 11%NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $2k → 14%BOSTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $5k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $11k → 22%AMERICAN JAPANESE CENTER: $500 → 14%SKIDMORE COLLEGE: $3k → 7%LYNN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $2k → 11%BROWN UNIVERSITYBROWN ANNUAL FUND: $650 → 14%NATIONWIDE AUTISM HOSPITAL: $16k → 15%WATERSHED CENTER FOR THE CERAMIC ARTS: $750 → 9%DANFOREST ART MUSEUM: $500 → 8%NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $1k → 14%BOSTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $4k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $3k → 22%ELMAR OLIVEIRA INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION: $2k → 11%BROWN UNIVERSITYBROWN ANNUAL FUND: $500 → 14%BOSTON SYMPHONY: $3k → 16%LA SALLE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 22%ELMAR OLIVEIRA INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION: $1k → 11%BOSTON PHILHARMONIC: $700 → 16%AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $500 → 17%LYNN UNIVERSITY: $500 → 11%HISTORIC NEWTON: $600 → 8%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $600 → 16%BOSTON SYMPHONY: $500 → 16%BOSTON PHILHARMONIC: $450 → 16%FOUNTAIN STREET GALLERY: $338 → 16%GANN ACADEMY: $10k → 8%GANN ACADEMY: $7k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY: $6k → 16%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $3k → 16%LASELL COLLEGE: $3k → 8%COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES: $1k → 16%COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHOPIES: $1k → 16%COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHOPIES: $1k → 16%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $575 → 16%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $400 → 16%2LIFE COMMUNITIES: $10k → 16%2LIFE COMMUNITIES: $9k → 16%2LIFE COMMUNITIES: $5k → 16%JEWISH COMMUNITY HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY: $4k → 16%2LIFE COMMUNITIES: $2k → 16%2LIFE COMMUNITIES: $1k → 16%IDEAS IN ACTION: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
RI
CA
KY
AZ
OK
FL
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$109k · 21 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
27

Total granted

$109k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+12%

Still filing today

57%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • 2C
    2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $37k · revenue +992%
  • BP
    Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $9k · revenue +28%
  • FC
    FULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $8k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • NA
    NATIONWIDE AUTISM HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $16k
  • FITCHBURG ART MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -58%
  • LS
    LA SALLE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -30%
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 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
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
Bard College

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.

Education
5
University of New Haven

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
6
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
7
Lehigh University

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…

Education
8
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
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
10
Wheaton College

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…

Education
11
Western New England University

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…

Education
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of the Arts; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GANN ACADEMY: $16,750 · OtherGANN ACADEMYNATIONWIDE AUTISM HOSPITAL: $16,000 · OtherNATIONWIDE AUTISM HOSPITALIndividual grant recipient: $3,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBACH BEETHOVEN AND BRAHMS SOCIETY: $2,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · Other+32 more: $13,488 · Other+32 more2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $36,625 · Housing & Shelter2LIFE COMMUNITIES INCBoston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporation: $8,650 · Arts & CultureBoston Philharmonic Orch…FULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC: $7,800 · Arts & CultureFULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INCFITCHBURG ART MUSEUM: $7,500 · Arts & CultureFITCHBURG ART MUSEUMBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $3,600 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTR…ELEVAR FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureELEVAR FOUNDATION INCMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $1,450 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $2,175 · Arts & Culture+3 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $13,250 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF T…LA SALLE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationLA SALLE UNIVERSITYLASELL UNIVERSITY: $2,500 · EducationLASELL UNIVERSITYSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $2,500 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGENORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $2,500 · EducationNORTHFIELD MOUNT HE…+1 more: $500 · EducationCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $1,250 · PhilanthropyIDEAS IN ACTION INC: $500 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY: $259 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $500 · Civil Rights
Other$54,388Housing & Shelter$36,625Arts & Culture$33,675Education$26,250Philanthropy$1,250Community Improvement$759Civil Rights$500

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 budget2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $36,625 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $13,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporation: $8,650 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC: $7,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFITCHBURG ART MUSEUM: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA SALLE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLASELL UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELEVAR FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $1,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTerezin Music Foundation Inc: $1,075 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWATERSHED CENTER FOR THE CERAMIC ARTS: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIDEAS IN ACTION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYNN UNIVERSITY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC: $490 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON OPERA COLLABORATIVE: $350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY INC: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $259 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - MILTON: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TAY-SACHS & ALLIED DISEASES ASS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $15 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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…The Hamilton Company …Highland Street Conne…Morgan Stanley Global…Jewish Communal FundDonor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …
Boston Foundation IncMA17.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 57 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home