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Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Jewish Community Foundation Of The Jewish Federation Council Of Greater Los Angeles, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $531k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k14 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $250k+1 grant · $509k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $509,212 |
| PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $4,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC | $2,500 |
| CONCERN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $1,000 |
| THE MUSIC CENTER | $1,000 |
| HEAL THE BAY | $500 |
| BALBOA ISLAND MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BEVERLY HILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY | $500 |
| LARC INC | $200 |
| FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC | $120 |
| THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC | $100 |
| ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER | $75 |
| EARTH JUSTICE | $50 |
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 (FY17–20, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 96% of Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 3% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2019, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40 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
- OCOTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN3× · 2017–2019 · $597k · revenue +51%
- VDVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES3× · 2017–2019 · $9k · revenue +19%
- CFCONCERN FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- WAWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +71%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -40%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $4k
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.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Earth and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 59 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
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 JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds CONCERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BEVERLY HILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds NRDC ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BHPOA BENEVOLENT FUND ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE BAY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds BALBOA ISLAND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VENICE ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY HILLS POLICE OFFICERS ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds LARC INC ↗
- Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TIGER PRESERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
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: California Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Larc Inc — 0% 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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