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Goldsmith Legacy Foundation at a glance

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Goldsmith Legacy Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$343kHousing & Shelter$334kHealth$250kArts & Culture$62kCrime & Legal$36kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $112k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ORANGE COUNTY RESCUE MISSION$12,000
EAST LA WOMEN'S CENTER$10,000
ELIZABETH HOUSE$10,000
HOPE HARBOR$10,000
THOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER$10,000
WISE PLACE$10,000
UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES$10,000
WALTER HOVING HOME$10,000
A NEW WAY OF LIFE$10,000
HOUSE OF RUTH$10,000
KHERUT$10,000
WOMEN'S TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER$7,500
CASA SERENA$5,000
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS$5,000
TREASURES$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $350k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED: $4k → 10%MPOWER ALLIANCE: $3k → 10%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 14%SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED INC: $3k → 10%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%CLARIS HEALTH: $3k → 14%SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED: $3k → 10%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $11k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $11k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $10k → 14%WISE PLACE: $11k → 10%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $10k → 14%WISE PLACE: $11k → 10%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $10k → 14%WISE PLACE: $10k → 10%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $10k → 14%WISE PLACE: $10k → 10%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $10k → 14%WISE PLACE: $10k → 10%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $9k → 14%WISE PLACE: $10k → 10%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $7k → 14%WISE PLACE: $10k → 10%WISE PLACE: $9k → 10%WISE PLACE: $7k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $3k → 10%HOUSE OF RUTH: $10k → 14%SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS: $10k → 14%HOUSE OF RUTH: $13k → 14%HOUSE OF RUTH: $11k → 14%HOUSE OF RUTH: $11k → 14%HOUSE OF RUTH: $10k → 14%HOUSE OF RUTH: $10k → 14%HOUSE OF RUTH: $10k → 14%HOUSE OF RUTH: $9k → 14%HOUSE OF RUTH: $7k → 14%KHERUT: $10k → 10%KHERUT: $5k → 10%KHERUT: $3k → 10%WOMANS TRADITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $8k → 10%WOMEN'S TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $8k → 10%WOMEN'S TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $7k → 10%WOMEN'S TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $5k → 10%WOMANS TRADITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $5k → 10%WOMEN'S TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $3k → 10%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 26 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
11

Total granted

$1.0M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+56%

Still filing today

81%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • HOUSE OF RUTH INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +57%
  • EAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +200%
  • WH
    WALTER HOVING HOME INC DBA HOVING HOME
    9× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • SS
    Special Service for Groups Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +56%
  • CH
    CLARIS HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +242%
  • LH
    LAURA'S HOUSE
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -5%
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
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
2
Casa de Esperanza

Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…

Human Services
3
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
4
House of Hope

Assisting and housing females in recovery

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5
Safe Nesttemporary Assistance for

Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.

Human Services
6
Consejo Counseling & Referral Service

Consejo brings healing, health, and hope to communities through holistic, culturally, and linguistically competent behavioral health services and advocacy.

Health
7
Crisis House

The mission of crisis house is to respond immediately to stop the cycle of domestic violence and homelessness and to connect families and individuals to crucial resources that empower them to renew their lives.

Human Services
8
Home for Homeless Women
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9
Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Our Vision is to enhance the educational and economic well-being of the people we serve by means of direct human services, advocacy, and referrals.Our Mission is to save lives, unite families, and protect the community through addiction…

—
10
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

—
11
The Miracle House Foundation

Mentorship and housing assistant for women returning from incarceration

Human Services
12
House of Hope

We assist young mothers with housing and wrap around services.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is House of Ruth Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hope Harbor. 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

33 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. 33 of the 38 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/33
Grantees still filing
24/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOUSE OF RUTH INC: $89,500 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF RUTH INCWISEPLACE: $87,000 · Human ServicesWISEPLACEUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $87,000 · Human ServicesUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICESWOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC RADIANT FUTURES: $34,500 · Human ServicesWOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC R…KHERUT: $17,500 · Human ServicesLAUREL HOUSE: $12,500 · Human Services+7 more: $36,500 · Human Services+7 moreEAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER: $87,000 · HealthEAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTERWALTER HOVING HOME INC DBA HOVING HOME: $87,000 · HealthWALTER HOVING HOME INC DBA HOVING HO…A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $87,000 · HealthA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECTCasa Serena: $37,500 · HealthCasa SerenaCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $33,000 · HealthCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS+1 more: $5,000 · HealthTHOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER: $57,500 · OtherTHOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHEL…ELIZABETH HOUSE: $54,000 · OtherELIZABETH HOUSEFAMILIES OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE: $35,500 · OtherFAMILIES OF CRIMINAL JUSTIC…WOMANSAGE INC: $26,000 · OtherWOMANSAGE INCHOPE HARBOR: $20,000 · OtherHOPE HARBORLaurel House Inc dba Hope Harbor: $15,000 · OtherLaurel House Inc dba Hope H…SAFE PASSAGE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $12,500 · OtherSOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH: $10,000 · Other+6 more: $25,000 · Other+6 moreOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $49,500 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS: $25,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE PRIORITY CENTER ENDING THE GENERATIONAL CYCLE: $2,500 · Crime & LegalST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Human Services$364,500Health$336,500Other$255,500Housing & Shelter$76,500Crime & Legal$2,500Philanthropy$2,500

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 budgetHOUSE OF RUTH INC: $89,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetEAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER: $87,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetWALTER HOVING HOME INC DBA HOVING HOME: $87,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetWISEPLACE: $87,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $87,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $87,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER: $57,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $49,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCasa Serena: $37,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC RADIANT FUTURES: $34,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $33,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWOMANSAGE INC: $26,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetMERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE HARBOR: $20,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetKHERUT: $17,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLaurel House Inc dba Hope Harbor: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $12,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetLAUREL HOUSE: $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSpecial Service for Groups Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetServing People In Need Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOptimist Boys' Home and Ranch Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAURA'S HOUSE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOOR OF HOPE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PRIORITY CENTER ENDING THE GENERATIONAL CYCLE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOC GATEWAY TO HOUSING: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMPOWER ALLIANCE: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWomen Crowned in Glory Safe Passage: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCENTER FOR THE PACIFIC-ASIAN FAMILY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 HOUSE OF RUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WALTER HOVING HOME INC DBA HOVING HOME ↗
  • Who funds WISEPLACE ↗
  • Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
  • Who funds Casa Serena ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC RADIANT FUTURES ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds WOMANSAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HARBOR ↗
  • Who funds KHERUT ↗
  • Who funds Laurel House Inc dba Hope Harbor ↗
  • Who funds SAFE PASSAGE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LAUREL HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Special Service for Groups Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds Serving People In Need Inc ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PEACE OVER VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds Optimist Boys' Home and Ranch Inc ↗
  • Who funds CLARIS HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds LAURA'S HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds DOOR OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds THE PRIORITY CENTER ENDING THE GENERATIONAL CYCLE ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds OC GATEWAY TO HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds MPOWER ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Women Crowned in Glory Safe Passage ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR THE PACIFIC-ASIAN FAMILY INC ↗

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.

Orange County Communi…Sisters of St Joseph …Weingart FoundationO L Halsell FoundationMufg Union Bank Found…Kaiser Foundation Hos…California Community …Glen and Dorothy Stil…The Annenberg Foundat…Conrad N Hilton Found…OneocS Mark Taper Foundati…
Orange County Community FoundationCA33.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Weingart Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Community Foundation · Glen and Dorothy Stillwell Charitable Trust · The Annenberg Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Oneoc · S Mark Taper 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 Goldsmith Legacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Goldsmith Legacy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Goldsmith Legacy Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Goldsmith Legacy 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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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