· Private foundation
The Robert and Dorothy Goldberg Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $140k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $112k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VAUGHAN COMMUNITY SERVICE INC | $15,000 |
| BARTLETT HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $14,000 |
| NORTH CONWAY COMMUNITY CENTER | $12,500 |
| MSAD #72 | $10,000 |
| GIBSON CENTER FOR SENIOR SERVICES | $10,000 |
| MT WASHINGTON VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| WHITE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CTR | $10,000 |
| CARROLL CO YMCA CAMP HUCKINS | $10,000 |
| EASTERN SLOPE AVIATION ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| GREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY | $8,000 |
| CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN | $8,000 |
| MT WASHINGTON VALLEY SCHOOL TO CAREER PARTR | $6,000 |
| CARROLL CO RETIREDSENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM | $6,000 |
| PREBLE STREET RESOURCE CTR | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VCVAUGHAN COMMUNITY SERVICE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $83k · revenue +17%
- WMWhite Mountain Community Health Center6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +46%
- CCCARROLL COUNTY YMCACAMP HUCKINS6× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +180%
Funded once
- USUPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUSTone grant, 2021 · $26k · revenue -3%
- NHNew Hampshire Historical Societygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +333%
- NCNORTH CONWAY PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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.
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…
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…
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
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…
To enrich, educate, and entertain the community through film and art.
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.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
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.
The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company & Museum preserves and operates hstoric two-foot gauge railroad equipment for the education and enjoyment of the public.
To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
Our mission is to inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, learning, and play.
How this is measured
59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds MT WASHINGTON VALLEY ARTS JUBILEE ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SAIL MAINE ↗
- Who funds University of Southern Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOUNT WASHINGTON VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- 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 ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND OVATIONS ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Robert and Dorothy Goldberg Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert and Dorothy Goldberg Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Chatham Historical Society Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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