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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 FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Religion$2.8MPhilanthropy$2.1MHealth$595kArts & Culture$400kHuman Services$255kScience & Tech$250kCrime & Legal$227kEducation$92kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $273k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE$250,000
JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA$155,000
BABY2BABY$67,600
WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$50,000
FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC$25,000
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA$22,500
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC$10,000
URBAN INSTITUTE$5,000
THE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL$5,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES$5,000
WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE$5,000
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES$5,000
BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS$2,500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%BOULDER CREST RETREAT FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%VISTA DEL MAR: $3k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR: $1k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 14%Innocence Project Inc: $25k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $50k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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MI
NY
MA
NV
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
HI
TX

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.2M · 29 repeat orgs$745k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
43

Total granted

$4.2M
$460k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+43%

Still filing today

69%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k 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
HealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesOther

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

  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    5× · 2017–2023 · $308k · revenue +63%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
    6× · 2017–2022 · $162k · revenue +153%
  • WA
    WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    3× · 2022–2025 · $150k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +26%
  • OM
    OPERATION MEND
    one grant, 2017 · $58k
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +55%

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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
6
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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7
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
10
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
11
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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12
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The J Paul Getty Trust. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyDomestic Violence ServicesAddiction Recovery ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Development ServicesJewish Community Organizati…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Cancer Support ServicesUnited Way Affiliates
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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr11%16%35–55yr13%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%54%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%11%20–35yr11%3%35–55yr13%27%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/70
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,908

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

65 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. 65 of the 84 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/65
Grantees still filing
53/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE — $2,765,637 · OtherWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLETHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,100,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONWEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE — $250,000 · OtherALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $161,500 · Other+37 more — $429,785 · Other+37 moreJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA — $658,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATIO…UNITED WAY INC — $163,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY INCTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST — $50,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $35,500 · Philanthropy+4 more — $51,500 · Philanthropy+4 moreCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $307,500 · HealthCEDARS-SI…NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $110,000 · HealthNATIONAL …MELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — $110,000 · HealthMELANOMA …+8 more — $12,600 · HealthWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $149,600 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $35,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA — $23,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $27,500 · Arts & CultureJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $14,500 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $30,000 · EducationOTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $20,000 · EducationTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND — $15,000 · EducationHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Education+3 more — $6,000 · EducationInternational Rescue Committee INC — $20,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $12,000 · InternationalTHE FUND FOR AFRICAN RELIEF AND EDUCATION — $7,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $6,000 · International+1 more — $1,000 · International
Other$4,706,922Philanthropy$958,000Health$540,100Arts & Culture$335,100Human Services$90,500Education$86,000International$46,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,100,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA — $658,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $307,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY INC — $163,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $161,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $149,600 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — $110,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBABY2BABY — $97,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $35,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA — $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $14,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE — $12,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ART RESEARCH AND ALLIANCES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFELIX ORGANIZATION - ADOPTEES FOR CHILDREN INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS — $9,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAUCUS FOR PRODUCERS WRITERS & DIRECTORS FOUND — $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPOPSTHECLUBCOM INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Kesher — $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTS FOR CARPENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONCERN FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

California Community …Weingart FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…Karen and Russell Gol…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…
California Community FoundationCA20.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bram & Elaine Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust 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%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report 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.

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How do I get to Bram & Elaine Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Bram & Elaine Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust 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 84 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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