Massachusetts · Private foundation
Goldhirsh Foundation
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.
- $4.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 74
- Grants FY2024
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,977,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 65
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $46M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Goldhirsh Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 70 | $4.6M | 64% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $2.6M | 57% |
| FY2022 | 65 | $3.0M | 74% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $2.2M | 69% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $2.1M | 70% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $2.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pro Publica Inc | $1,150,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Amigos of Costa Rica Inc | $1,090,500 | 4 | 9% |
| Unite America Institute Inc | $418,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Community Partners | $273,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Packer Collegiate Institute | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Summit Impact | $250,000 | 2 | 81% |
| Defy Ventures Inc | $180,000 | 3 | 4% |
| The Advertising Council Inc | $180,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Brooklyn Public Library | $160,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Synergos Institute Inc | $160,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 167 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Goldhirsh Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 158 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The California Endowment · United Way Inc · The Ahmanson Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
How this is measured
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About Goldhirsh Foundation
- How much does Goldhirsh Foundation give?
- Goldhirsh Foundation reported 74 grants totaling $4,682,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 65 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Goldhirsh Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (15%), Arts & Culture (14%), Education (14%).
- Who are Goldhirsh Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Pro Publica Inc ($1.1M), Amigos of Costa Rica Inc ($1.1M), Unite America Institute Inc ($418k).
- Does Goldhirsh Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Goldhirsh Foundation 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 Goldhirsh Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Annenberg Foundation, California Community Foundation, Weingart Foundation.
- Where is Goldhirsh Foundation based?
- Goldhirsh Foundation is based in MA.
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