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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $125k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $425k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+2 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIGHTY | $1,977,000 |
| THE PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| COLUMBIA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM | $200,000 |
| NOSARA CIVIC ASSOCATION | $150,000 |
| IMPACT ASSETS | $105,400 |
| SERPENTINE AMERICAS FOUNDATION | $85,000 |
| LITTLE TOKYO SERVICE CENTER FBO ACT-LA | $75,000 |
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| TIA CHUCHA'S CENTRO CULTURAL & BOOKSTORE | $75,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS | $75,000 |
| BIRTHWORKERS OF COLOR COLLECTIVE | $75,000 |
| CA CONFERENCE FOR EQUALITY AND JUSTICE | $75,000 |
| PUEBLO NUEVO EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT | $75,000 |
| LA-MAS | $75,000 |
| GRID110 INC | $75,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $880k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +42% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 45 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, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M 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
PRO PUBLICA INC4× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +64%- AOAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC4× · 2019–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +180%
- UAUNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC4× · 2020–2023 · $418k · revenue +690%
Funded once
- PPROPUBLICAone grant, 2023 · $300k
- PCPACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +7%
- MFMAYOR'S FUND FOR LAone grant, 2020 · $150k
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.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.
Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.
The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.
Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
To improve the skills, wages, and working conditions of workers in the tourism industry and to assure that the benefits of tourism contribute equitably to the economic and social development of all communities in the greater los angeles…
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…
For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…
The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social Justice Partners Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Color the Water. 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 21 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
169 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. 169 of the 236 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT IMPACT ↗
- Who funds DEFY VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADVERTISING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds TIYYA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CICLAVIA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BIRTHWORKERS OF COLOR COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds 826LA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN NOW ↗
- Who funds Angel City Alliance ↗
- Who funds DIY GIRLS ↗
- Who funds CLINICA MSR OSCAR A ROMERO ↗
- Who funds READY TO SUCCEED ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCK THE VOTE ↗
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.
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
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 Goldhirsh Foundation 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.
- Girls Inc of the Valley — 30% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
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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