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The Robert and Dorothy Goldberg Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$251k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0172% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$392kHuman Services$156kEnvironment$110kRecreation & Sports$108kEducation$97kHealth$77kFood & Nutrition$28kAnimals$26kYouth Development$23kOther$490k
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $140k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $112k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VAUGHAN COMMUNITY SERVICE INC$15,000
BARTLETT HISTORICAL SOCIETY$14,000
NORTH CONWAY COMMUNITY CENTER$12,500
EASTERN SLOPE AVIATION ACADEMY$10,000
GREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST$10,000
CARROLL CO YMCA CAMP HUCKINS$10,000
GIBSON CENTER FOR SENIOR SERVICES$10,000
MT WASHINGTON VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
MSAD #72$10,000
WHITE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CTR$10,000
CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN$8,000
FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY$8,000
MT WASHINGTON VALLEY SCHOOL TO CAREER PARTR$6,000
CARROLL CO RETIREDSENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM$6,000
KID'S FIRST CENTER$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LAURA MAHONEY AUTISM & EPILEPSY NH: $3k → 9%LAURA MAHONEY AUTISM & EPILEPSY NH: $3k → 9%LAURA MAHONEY AUTISM & EPILEPSY NH: $3k → 9%LAURA MAHONEY AUTISM & EPILEPSY NH: $2k → 9%VAUGHAN COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $20k → 9%VAUGHN COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $15k → 9%CATHERINE MORRILL DAY NURSERY: $5k → 7%VAUGHAN COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $15k → 9%NORTH CONWAY COMMUNITY CENTER: $13k → 9%VAUGHAN COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $12k → 9%VAUGHN COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $12k → 9%GIBSON CENTER FOR SENIOR SERVICES: $10k → 9%VAUGHAN COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $9k → 9%GIBSON CENTER FOR SENIOR SERVICES: $8k → 9%GIBSON CENTER FOR SENIOR SERVICES: $7k → 9%GIBSON CENTER FOR SENIOR SERVICES: $6k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 54 repeat orgs$167k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

54 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
23

Total granted

$1.3M
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+25%

Still filing today

80%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationEnvironmentHealthOther

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

  • VC
    VAUGHAN COMMUNITY SERVICE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $83k · revenue +17%
  • WM
    White Mountain Community Health Center
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +46%
  • CC
    CARROLL COUNTY YMCACAMP HUCKINS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +180%

Funded once

  • US
    UPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2021 · $26k · revenue -3%
  • NC
    NORTH CONWAY PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

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2
Bowdoin International Music Festival

The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…

Arts & Culture
3
Maine Maritime Museum

To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.

Arts & Culture
4
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts

The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…

Arts & Culture
5
Maine Film Center

To enrich, educate, and entertain the community through film and art.

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6
The Camden Childrens House Montessori School

Founded in 1979, the Childrens House Montessori School cultivates curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking in young learners, while nurturing a sense of care for each other, the environment, and the world.

Education
7
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve

The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.

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8
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
9
Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad and Industrial Heritage Trust

The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company & Museum preserves and operates hstoric two-foot gauge railroad equipment for the education and enjoyment of the public.

Science & Tech
10
Abbe Museum

To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.

Arts & Culture
11
Coastal Mountains Land Trust

We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.

Environment
12
Western Maine Play Museum

Our mission is to inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, learning, and play.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine and the most unlike its peers is Hewnoaks Artist Colony. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMaine Community Support Org…Casco Bay Conservation & Co…Affordable Housing ProvidersCrisis Support & Trauma Ser…Youth & Community RecreationIndependent Schools and Ear…Maine Land Conservation
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr21%13%10–20yr19%32%20–35yr14%32%35–55yr15%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr21%8%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr14%41%35–55yr15%19%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
10%
318/3,175

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.

04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 81 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
40/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PREBLE STREET RESOURCE CTR — $47,000 · OtherPREBLE STREET RESOURCE CTREASTERN SLOPE AVIATION ACADEMY — $46,000 · OtherEASTERN SLOPE AVIATION ACADEMYCARROLL COUNTY YMCACAMP HUCKINS — $45,600 · OtherCARROLL COUNTY YMCACAMP HUCKINSMT WASHINGTON VALLEY ARTS ASSOCIATION — $32,500 · OtherMT WASHINGTON VALLEY ARTS ASSOCIATIONKIDS FIRST CENTER — $31,500 · OtherKIDS FIRST CENTERMT WASHINGTON VALLEY ADULT DAY CARE — $28,000 · OtherC HOBBS MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $20,000 · OtherCARROLL CO RETIREDSENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM — $19,500 · OtherUPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST — $26,000 · OtherGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $26,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN — $23,000 · OtherMOUNT WASHINGTON VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $20,000 · OtherUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation — $20,000 · Other+25 more — $181,600 · Other+25 moreCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE — $47,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE…BARTLETT HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $43,500 · Arts & CultureBARTLETT HISTORICAL SOCIETYOPERA MAINE — $38,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA MAINEMOUNTAIN TOP MUSIC CENTER — $34,000 · Arts & CultureMOUNTAIN TOP MUSIC CENTERAEOLIAN CHAMBER PLAYERS INC — $28,000 · Arts & CultureAEOLIAN CHAMBER PLAYERS INCMT WASHINGTON VALLEY ARTS JUBILEE — $25,000 · Arts & CultureMT WASHINGTON VALLEY ARTS JUB…SAIL MAINE — $23,000 · Arts & CultureSAIL MAINEDENMARK ARTS CENTER — $20,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND STAGE COMPANY — $20,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL — $19,000 · Arts & CultureLOVELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $15,500 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND OVATIONS — $15,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Jewish Film Festival — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $48,500 · Arts & Culture+7 moreVAUGHAN COMMUNITY SERVICE INC — $83,000 · Human ServicesVAUGHAN COM…GIBSON CENTER FOR SENIOR SERVICES INC — $31,200 · Human ServicesGIBSON CENT…FURNITURE FRIENDS — $13,500 · Human ServicesFURNITURE F…NORTH CONWAY COMMUNITY CENTER — $12,500 · Human ServicesNORTH CONWA…LAURA MAHONEY AUTISM AND EPILEPSY FOUNDATION — $10,500 · Human ServicesLAURA MAHON…+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesGREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST INC — $37,500 · EnvironmentTIN MOUNTAIN CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $31,900 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY — $29,000 · EnvironmentEcology Education Inc — $10,000 · Environment+1 more — $2,000 · EnvironmentPortland Community Squash — $41,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Susan L Curtis Foundation — $32,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsMOUNT WASHINGTON VALLEY YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsKevin Peare Memorial Skate Park — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsMT WASHINGTON VALLEY SCHOOL TO CAREER PARTNERSHIP — $31,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · EducationKISMET ROCK FOUNDATION — $28,500 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE CONWAY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $2,000 · EducationWhite Mountain Community Health Center — $60,000 · HealthThe Yellow Tulip Project — $17,000 · Health
Other$566,700Arts & Culture$391,500Human Services$155,700Environment$110,400Recreation & Sports$108,000Education$96,500Health$77,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVAUGHAN COMMUNITY SERVICE INC — $83,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetWhite Mountain Community Health Center — $60,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE — $47,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCARROLL COUNTY YMCACAMP HUCKINS — $45,600 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBARTLETT HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $43,500 over 6y, 14% of budgetPortland Community Squash — $41,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetOPERA MAINE — $38,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetGREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST INC — $37,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMOUNTAIN TOP MUSIC CENTER — $34,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetMT WASHINGTON VALLEY ARTS ASSOCIATION — $32,500 over 6y, 33% of budgetThe Susan L Curtis Foundation — $32,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetTIN MOUNTAIN CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $31,900 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetKIDS FIRST CENTER — $31,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetGIBSON CENTER FOR SENIOR SERVICES INC — $31,200 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMT WASHINGTON VALLEY SCHOOL TO CAREER PARTNERSHIP — $31,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY — $29,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetKISMET ROCK FOUNDATION — $28,500 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetAEOLIAN CHAMBER PLAYERS INC — $28,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST — $26,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMT WASHINGTON VALLEY ARTS JUBILEE — $25,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN — $23,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSAIL MAINE — $23,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMOUNT WASHINGTON VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDENMARK ARTS CENTER — $20,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetPORTLAND STAGE COMPANY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPORTLAND CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL — $19,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetThe Yellow Tulip Project — $17,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetLOVELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $15,500 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetNORTH FRYEBURG COMMUNITY CHAPEL — $15,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetPORTLAND OVATIONS — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMaine Jewish Film Festival — $15,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetFURNITURE FRIENDS — $13,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCHATHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLAURA MAHONEY AUTISM AND EPILEPSY FOUNDATION — $10,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetJACKSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNew Hampshire Historical Society — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEcology Education Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPALAVER STRINGS INC — $9,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHEWNOAKS ARTIST COLONY — $8,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetRUFUS PORTER MUSEUM OF ART AND INGENUITY — $8,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPOPE MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $7,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetOGONTZ ARTS FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetChildren's Nursery School — $6,500 over 2y, 4.8% of budget
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 VAUGHAN COMMUNITY SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds White Mountain Community Health Center ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE ↗
  • Who funds CARROLL COUNTY YMCACAMP HUCKINS ↗
  • Who funds BARTLETT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Portland Community Squash ↗
  • Who funds OPERA MAINE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN TOP MUSIC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MT WASHINGTON VALLEY ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds The Susan L Curtis Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TIN MOUNTAIN CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS FIRST CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GIBSON CENTER FOR SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds MT WASHINGTON VALLEY SCHOOL TO CAREER PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY ↗
  • Who funds KISMET ROCK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AEOLIAN CHAMBER PLAYERS INC ↗
  • Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds UPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds MT WASHINGTON VALLEY ARTS JUBILEE ↗
  • Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds SAIL MAINE ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT WASHINGTON VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Southern Maine Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DENMARK ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds The Yellow Tulip Project ↗
  • Who funds LOVELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NORTH FRYEBURG COMMUNITY CHAPEL ↗

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.

Maine Community Found…Sam L Cohen FoundationNew Hampshire Charita…Davis Family Foundati…Morton-Kelly Charitab…Onion FoundationStephen & Tabitha Kin…Simmons Foundation - …Davis Conservation Fo…Gibson Woodbury Chari…Lunder FoundationLibra Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME41.3× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Onion Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Davis Conservation Foundation · Gibson Woodbury Charitable Foundation · Lunder Foundation · Libra Foundation

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 Robert and Dorothy Goldberg Charitable 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • Chatham Historical Society Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Robert and Dorothy Goldberg Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Robert and Dorothy Goldberg Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 81 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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