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The Goldfarb Family Fund at a glance

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The Goldfarb Family Fund

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$35kArts & Culture$31kCivil Rights$20kPhilanthropy$6kPublic Benefit$5kHuman Services$2kCrime & Legal$1kEnvironment$100Other$0
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KEY BISCAYNE WOMEN'S GIVING CIRCLE$2,000
DIMENSIONS DANCE THEATRE OF MIAMI$1,030
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SERAPHIC FIRE: $100 → 15%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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46k · 4 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
21

Total granted

$46k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+22%

Still filing today

50%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 & CultureEducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $31k · revenue +40%
  • MC
    MIAMI CITY BALLET INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $9k · revenue +46%
  • KB
    KEY BISCAYNE WOMEN'S GIVING CIRCLE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $5k

Funded once

  • ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -18%
  • MS
    MAIN STREET MEDIA CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • S5
    SANDERS 501C3
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
University of Miami
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3
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Arts & Culture
4
New World Symphony Inc

Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.

Education
5
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…

Environment
6
Dance Now Ensemble Inc

Form 990, part 1, line 1 - organization mission and significant activities the mission of dance now miami is to promote the artistic vision of co- founders hannah baumgarten and diego salterini. the company creates, promotes and produces…

Arts & Culture
7
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc

Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.

Education
8
South Florida Symphony Orchestra Inc

The orchestra is dedicated to bringing orchestral music of the highest caliber to south florida. its mission is to delight, inspire and educate the communities we serve through music.

Arts & Culture
9
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
10
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
11
Florida Tourism Industry Marketing Corp Inc

To promote visitation to florida by strengthening florida's share of the global travel market with the goal of maximizing the economic impact of travel and tourism to florida.

—
12
The Marjorie

The Marjorie is Florida's independent reporting outlet dedicated to the critical intersection of social justice and the environment. Our mission is to report on Florida's deeper human story, recognizing that the crises we face are not…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Key Biscayne Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Main Street Media Center. 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

13 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. 13 of the 27 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $31,295 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY+1 more: $150 · EducationMAIN STREET MEDIA CENTER: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMAIN STREET MEDIA CENTERMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $8,679 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CITY BALLET INCDIMENSIONS DANCE THEATER OF MIAMI INC: $1,045 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureSANDERS 501C3: $5,345 · OtherSANDERS 501C3KEY BISCAYNE WOMEN'S GIVING CIRCLE: $5,000 · OtherKEY BISCAYNE WOMEN'S GIVIN…Individual grant recipient: $3,767 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDIMENSION DANCE THEATRE OF MIAMI: $1,713 · OtherDIMENSION DANCE THEATRE OF…Individual grant recipient: $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKEY BISCAYNE COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,500 · OtherKEY BISCAYNE COMMUNITY CEN…DIMENSIONS DANCE THEATRE OF MIAMI: $1,030 · OtherDIMENSIONS DANCE THEATRE: $1,000 · OtherBRENNON CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $1,000 · OtherDIMENSION DANCE CENTER: $1,000 · Other+6 more: $1,050 · OtherALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $20,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR JUSTICEKEY BISCAYNE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $112 · PhilanthropySERAPHIC FIRE INC: $100 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC: $50 · Environment
Education$31,445Arts & Culture$25,824Other$23,905Civil Rights$20,000Philanthropy$112Human Services$100Environment$50

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 budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $31,295 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAIN STREET MEDIA CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $8,679 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIMENSIONS DANCE THEATER OF MIAMI INC: $1,045 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEY BISCAYNE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $112 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERAPHIC FIRE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAVE FARM INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC: $50 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.

The Miami Foundation …Mightycause Charitabl…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Miami Foundation IncFL13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Miami Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Goldfarb Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Goldfarb Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Seraphic Fire Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
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How do I get to The Goldfarb Family Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Goldfarb Family Fund 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 27 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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