· Private foundation
Elaine and Bram Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ICAHN SCHOOLD OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $400,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES | $200,000 |
| WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $100,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| HEYDAY BOOKS | $50,000 |
| PASADENA PLAYHOUSE | $25,000 |
| THE FOOD BANK OF NY | $5,000 |
| UNITED OSTOMY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA | $4,471 |
| BENEDICT CANYON ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| THE MUSIC CENTER | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI5× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +41%- WAWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS7× · 2018–2024 · $500k · revenue +47%
- TJTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $200k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELESone grant, 2020 · $250k
- MSMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +37%
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is 300SL Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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. 22 of the 36 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Heyday ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago Medical Center ↗
- Who funds THE MIRMAN SCHOOL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds 300SL Foundation ↗
- Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WRITERS BLOC PRESENTS ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TREEPEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
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.
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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 Elaine and Bram 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.
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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