California · Private foundation
Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $616k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $409k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $408k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $412k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $374k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $280k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $132k | 94% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $191k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $110k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $469,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Wilshire Boulevard Temple | $284,450 | 7 | n/a |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $232,925 | 4 | 0% |
| Focusing Philanthropy Inc | $166,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Baby2baby | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Innocence Project Inc | $102,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Keep Memory Alive | $84,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Bram & Elaine Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust · The Morris a Hazan Family Foundation · The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
Compare Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust with peer funders
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About Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust give?
- Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust reported 23 grants totaling $616,164 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (42%), Health (16%), Religion (8%).
- Who are Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($470k), Wilshire Boulevard Temple ($284k), The Aspen Institute Inc ($233k).
- Does Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, California Community Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.
- Where is Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust based?
- Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust is based in CA.
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