California · Private foundation
Bram & Elaine Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $608k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Bram & Elaine Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $453k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $1.1M | 75% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $783k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $702k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $678k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $411k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $222k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $309k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilshire Boulevard Temple | $2,765,637 | 9 | n/a |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $307,500 | 5 | 0% |
| United Way Inc | $163,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Alliance for Children's Rights | $161,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts | $149,600 | 3 | 1% |
| National Jewish Health | $110,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation | $110,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Baby2baby | $97,600 | 3 | 0% |
| The J Paul Getty Trust | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($424k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bram & Elaine Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Bram & Elaine Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust with peer funders
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About Bram & Elaine Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Bram & Elaine Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust give?
- Bram & Elaine Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust reported 13 grants totaling $607,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bram & Elaine Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (41%), Philanthropy (31%), Health (9%).
- Who are Bram & Elaine Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wilshire Boulevard Temple ($2.8M), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($308k), United Way Inc ($163k).
- Does Bram & Elaine Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bram & Elaine Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bram & Elaine Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Weingart Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation.
- Where is Bram & Elaine Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust based?
- Bram & Elaine Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust is based in CA.
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