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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.

$4.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
74
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Youth Development$2.7MArts & Culture$2.5MEducation$2.4MCommunity Improvement$1.9MInternational$1.5MPublic Benefit$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.1MCivil Rights$842kOther$0
02FY2024 · 74 grants

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
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

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.

area typical 11%YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER: $75k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $101k → 10%CARECEN: $10k → 12%PINYON FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $5k → 14%ANGEL CITY ALLIANCE: $101k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $50k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $5k → 14%CHARITY WATER: $25k → 17%LOST ANGELS CHILDREN'S PROJECT: $50k → 14%JENESSE CENTER INC: $25k → 14%SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $50k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $50k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $11k → 14%LOST ANGELS CHILDREN'S PROJECT: $50k → 14%ADVENTURES TO DREAMS ENRICHMENT: $50k → 14%WESTSIDE PACIFIC VILLAGES: $11k → 14%BRIDGE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE: $50k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $10k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $50k → 14%END HOMELESSNESS CALIFORNIA: $1k → 14%FOSTER NATION: $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

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX
FL

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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.0M · 54 repeat orgs$9.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
130

Total granted

$8.0M
$5.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+31%

Still filing today

72%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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 INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +64%
  • AO
    AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +180%
  • UA
    UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $418k · revenue +690%

Funded once

  • P
    PROPUBLICA
    one grant, 2023 · $300k
  • PC
    PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +7%
  • MF
    MAYOR'S FUND FOR LA
    one grant, 2020 · $150k

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
California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit
2
Los Angeles Conservation Corps

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.

Employment
3
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network

Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.

Community Improvement
4
Cooperation L a

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

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…

6
Los Angeles Conservancy

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 & Culture
7
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
8
The California Channel

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…

9
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

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…

Health
10
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

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…

Youth Development
11
Public Advocates Inc

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,…

12
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

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…

International

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr15%16%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr12%21%35–55yr13%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%16%5–10yr20%43%10–20yr18%19%20–35yr12%13%35–55yr13%8%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.6% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/174
the rest of the field
14%
11,585/82,826

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

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 20172025, 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
167/169
Grantees still filing
111/169
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MIGHTY — $1,977,000 · OtherMIGHTYTHE PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE — $500,000 · OtherUNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC — $418,000 · Other+121 more — $7,568,025 · Other+121 morePACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE — $250,000 · EducationPACKER CO…DEFY VENTURES INC — $180,000 · EducationDEFY VENT…BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $160,000 · EducationBROOKLYN …TIYYA FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · EducationTIYYA FOU…826LA — $105,000 · Education826LAREADY TO SUCCEED — $100,000 · EducationREADY TO …SOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES — $100,000 · EducationSOCIAL JU…9 DOTS COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER — $100,000 · Education9 DOTS CO…PUEBLO NUEVO EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT G — $75,000 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS — $75,000 · Education+10 more — $258,625 · Education+10 morePRO PUBLICA INC — $1,150,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLI…ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK — $125,000 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR …DESTINATION CRENSHAW — $75,000 · Arts & CultureRUCKUSROOTS INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureNEW EARTH ORGANIZATION — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $37,000 · Arts & CultureAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC — $1,090,500 · InternationalAMIGOS OF…THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC — $160,000 · InternationalTHE SYNER…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $100,000 · InternationalMEDECINS …HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST — $50,000 · International+3 more — $55,000 · InternationalCHILDREN NOW — $101,000 · Human ServicesAngel City Alliance — $101,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER NATION — $100,000 · Human ServicesLost Angels Childrens Project Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER — $75,000 · Human ServicesPARA LOS NINOS — $55,000 · Human ServicesUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES — $50,000 · Human ServicesWORLD VOICES MEDIA (FKA PINYON FOUNDATION) — $50,000 · Human ServicesSharefest Community Development Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesFULFILLMENT FUND — $50,000 · Human ServicesFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH — $50,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE — $50,000 · Human ServicesAdventures to Dreams Enrichment — $50,000 · Human Services+7 more — $97,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $273,000 · Community ImprovementSUMMIT IMPACT — $250,000 · Community ImprovementLOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR — $100,000 · Community ImprovementLA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES — $100,000 · Community ImprovementLA VOICE — $95,000 · Community ImprovementLOS ANGELES NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE — $50,000 · Community Improvement+4 more — $85,000 · Community ImprovementIMPACTASSETSINC — $532,400 · PhilanthropyGVNGorg — $100,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND — $100,000 · PhilanthropyFlintridge Center — $60,000 · Philanthropy+6 more — $115,000 · Philanthropy
Other$10,463,025Education$1,553,625Arts & Culture$1,487,000International$1,455,500Human Services$979,000Community Improvement$953,000Philanthropy$907,400

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $1,150,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC — $1,090,500 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC — $532,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC — $418,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $273,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE — $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUMMIT IMPACT — $250,000 over 2y, 81% of budgetDEFY VENTURES INC — $180,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetTHE ADVERTISING COUNCIL INC — $180,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $160,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC — $160,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTIYYA FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCICLAVIA INC — $132,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK — $125,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBIRTHWORKERS OF COLOR COLLECTIVE — $125,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budget826LA — $105,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCHILDREN NOW — $101,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAngel City Alliance — $101,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDIY GIRLS — $101,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCLINICA MSR OSCAR A ROMERO — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetREADY TO SUCCEED — $100,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR — $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetROCK THE VOTE — $100,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetTHE YOUTH MOVEMENT AGAINST ALZHEIMERS — $100,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetGRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetGVNGorg — $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES — $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetVENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION — $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER NATION — $100,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLost Angels Childrens Project Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES — $100,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budget9 DOTS COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES — $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetEAST LA COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLA VOICE — $95,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetGRID110 INC — $90,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $85,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIGNITYMOVES — $85,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEALING CALIFORNIA — $81,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetLA-MAS INC — $80,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetInner City Law Center — $80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER — $80,000 over 2y, 4.8% 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.

  • 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.

The Annenberg FoundationPA81.9× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • Girls Inc of the Valley30% of income from government
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
60report 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, FY2025

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 Goldhirsh Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Goldhirsh Foundation 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 236 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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