· Private foundation
Elaine and Bram 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $385k
- $250k+2 grants · $650k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $400,000 |
| AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE | $250,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES | $160,000 |
| WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $95,000 |
| HEYDAY BOOKS | $80,000 |
| YALE COLLEGE ANNUAL FUND | $50,000 |
| PASADENA PLAYHOUSE | $25,000 |
| THE ACTORS STUDIO INC | $25,000 |
| THE MIRMAN SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE MUSIC CENTER | $20,000 |
| THE FOOD BANK OF NEW YORK | $20,000 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| THE FAMILY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BENEDICT CANYON ASSOCIATION | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $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 its grants land in higher-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 +47% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI6× · 2019–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +41%- WAWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS8× · 2018–2025 · $595k · revenue +47%
- ACAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC2× · 2023–2025 · $260k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELESone grant, 2020 · $250k
- MSMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +37%
- UOUniversity of Chicago Medical Centerone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +11%
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.
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Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
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Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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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.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 40 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 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 AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Heyday ↗
- Who funds THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago Medical Center ↗
- Who funds THE MIRMAN SCHOOL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WRITERS BLOC PRESENTS ↗
- Who funds TREEPEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds 300SL Foundation ↗
- Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elaine and Bram Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elaine and Bram Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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