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William and Bertha Goldfinger Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

William and Bertha Goldfinger Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$66kAnimals$27kArts & Culture$18kHuman Services$3kEducation$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$1k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$38k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MODERNIST ARCHIVE INC$5,000
PAUL RUDOLPH INSTITUTE FOR MODERN A$4,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MISC CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER 500: $3k → 9%PAUL RUDOLPH INSTITUTE FOR MODERN A: $62k → 17%SANTE FE ANIMAL SHELTER: $600 → 12%STRAY HEARTS ANIMAL SHELTER: $600 → 18%US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $500 → 14%TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE: $1k → 15%US MODERNIST: $8k → 11%MISC CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER 500: $3k → 9%PAUL RUDOLPH INSTITUTE FOR MODERN A: $4k → 17%SANTE FE ANIMAL SHELTER: $500 → 12%STRAY HEARTS ANIMAL SHELTER: $500 → 18%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $1k → 14%US MODERNIST: $5k → 11%MISC CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER 500: $3k → 9%KINDRED SPIRITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $1k → 12%MODERNIST ARCHIVE INC: $5k → 11%MISC CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER 500: $2k → 9%KINDRED SPIRITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $1k → 12%MISC CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER 500: $2k → 9%KINDRED SPIRITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $500 → 12%MISC CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER 500: $2k → 9%KINDRED SPIRITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $500 → 12%MISC CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER 500: $1k → 9%KINDRED SPIRITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $500 → 12%MISC CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER 500: $1k → 9%MISC CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER 500: $232 → 9%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$107k · 8 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$107k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
0%

Still filing today

63%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationInternationalOther
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

  • KS
    KINDRED SPIRITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY
    5× · 2018–2024 · $4k · revenue +128%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $3k · revenue +90%
  • SF
    SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -59%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -40%
  • AC
    ALLEY CAT PROJECT
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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
Stray Dog Institute
Animals
2
Saving Saluda Strays
Animals
3
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
4
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
5
Assassination Archives & Research Center Inc
—
6
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
7
The Schull Institute
Education
8
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
9
The Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc

The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…

Animals
10
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
11
Stray Cat Film Center
Arts & Culture
12
600 Million Stray Dogs Need You Corporation

To end the #1 cause of suffering and death for dogs and cats globally, by developing food that will spay and neuter them, without surgery and end the overpopulation problem without killing.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture. 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PAUL RUDOLPH INSTITUTE FOR MODERN ARCHITECTURE: $65,822 · PhilanthropyTHE PAUL RUDOLPH INSTITUTE FOR MODERN ARCHITECTUREMISC CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER 500: $18,832 · OtherMISC CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER 500Individual grant recipient: $12,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientANGUILLA ANIMAL RESCUE CORP: $1,500 · OtherKINDRED SPIRITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $3,500 · AnimalsSANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1,100 · AnimalsHumane Society of Taos Inc dba Stray Hearts Animal Shelter: $1,100 · AnimalsALLEY CAT PROJECT: $1,000 · AnimalsMODERNIST ARCHIVE INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $500 · Arts & CultureWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: $1,000 · EducationWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 · International
Philanthropy$65,822Other$32,832Animals$6,700Arts & Culture$5,500Human Services$3,000Education$1,000International$1,000

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 budgetTHE PAUL RUDOLPH INSTITUTE FOR MODERN ARCHITECTURE: $65,822 over 2y, 23% of budgetKINDRED SPIRITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $3,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Taos Inc dba Stray Hearts Animal Shelter: $1,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLEY CAT PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $500 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.

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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 William and Bertha Goldfinger Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William and Bertha Goldfinger Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 William and Bertha Goldfinger Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to William and Bertha Goldfinger Foundation Inc 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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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