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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
DESTINATION CRENSHAW$75,000
LITTLE TOKYO SERVICE CENTER FBO ACT-LA$75,000
TIA CHUCHA'S CENTRO CULTURAL & BOOKSTORE$75,000
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 +161%
  • 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
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.

04Its field

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.

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…

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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…

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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,…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social Justice Partners Los Angeles; 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.
04the grantee network

169 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. 169 of the 236 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: $75,000 · EducationPUEBLO NUEVO EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT G: $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 & CultureNEW EARTH ORGANIZATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureRUCKUSROOTS INC: $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 ServicesAdventures to Dreams Enrichment: $50,000 · Human ServicesSharefest Community Development Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesFULFILLMENT FUND: $50,000 · Human ServicesFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $50,000 · Human ServicesUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $50,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE: $50,000 · Human ServicesWORLD VOICES MEDIA (FKA PINYON FOUNDATION): $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 the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBIRTHWORKERS OF COLOR COLLECTIVE: $125,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK: $125,000 over 2y, 2.5% 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 budgetFOSTER NATION: $100,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetCLINICA MSR OSCAR A ROMERO: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 budgetREADY TO SUCCEED: $100,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetGVNGorg: $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES: $100,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetVENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLost Angels Childrens Project Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budget9 DOTS COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetGRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 5.0% 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 budgetDIGNITYMOVES: $85,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $85,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEALING CALIFORNIA: $81,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER: $80,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetLA-MAS INC: $80,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetNorth East Trees Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budget
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 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 SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHWORKERS OF COLOR COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds 826LA ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN NOW ↗
  • Who funds Angel City Alliance ↗
  • Who funds DIY GIRLS ↗
  • Who funds FOSTER NATION ↗
  • Who funds CLINICA MSR OSCAR A ROMERO ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR ↗
  • Who funds PEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROCK THE VOTE ↗

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.

The Annenberg Foundat…California Community …Weingart FoundationThe Ralph M Parsons F…Liberty Hill Foundati…The California Wellne…The California Endowm…United Way IncThe Ahmanson Foundati…Conrad N Hilton Found…The James Irvine Foun…The Eli and Edythe Br…
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Goldhirsh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Goldhirsh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 236 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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