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Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.6MHealth$612kReligion$284kSocial Science$233kHuman Services$188kCrime & Legal$177kCivil Rights$155kArts & Culture$125kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $487k
$6,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA$200,000
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC$75,000
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$62,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$50,000
Focusing Philanthropy Inc$50,000
The American Independent FOUNDATION$50,000
THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC$25,000
Karsh Family Social Service Center Inc$25,000
everytown for gun safety support fund$25,000
WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE$12,950
KukiO Hoomana Fund$10,000
American Friends of Hebrew University inc$6,000
Rise and Shine Foundation INC$5,000
ASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
Stanford University$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 (FY20–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Downtown Women's Center: $2k → 14%Rise and Shine Foundation INC: $5k → 8%Karsh Family Social Service Center Inc: $25k → 14%Karsh Family Social Service Center Inc: $10k → 14%The Children's Aid Society: $1k → 17%Covenant House: $2k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $25k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $25k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $25k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $25k → 17%The Innocence Project Inc: $2k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $3k → 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

NY
MA
OR
NV
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
KS
TN
DC
HI
AL
GA
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 21 repeat orgs$403k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
29

Total granted

$1.9M
$313k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+21%

Still filing today

86%
97%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    6× · 2019–2025 · $470k · revenue +50%
  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $233k · revenue +134%
  • FP
    FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $166k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • WA
    WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +48%
  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -66%
  • TL
    The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -4%
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
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
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
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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5
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
6
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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.…

Arts & Culture
7
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rise and Shine Foundation Inc. 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

60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
41/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $880,400 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LAUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH FEDERATIONFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $166,000 · PhilanthropyFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC+5 more: $115,500 · Philanthropy+5 moreWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE: $284,450 · OtherWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLETHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONBABY2BABY: $150,000 · OtherBABY2BABYKEEP MEMORY ALIVE: $84,000 · OtherKEEP MEMORY ALIVELOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $80,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $50,000 · Other+24 more: $244,104 · Other+24 moreCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $469,500 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI ME…VISION TO LEARN: $25,000 · Health+5 more: $24,500 · HealthTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $232,925 · Social ScienceSave The Children Federation Inc: $100,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $31,000 · International+5 more: $24,000 · InternationalANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $100,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $25,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $25,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $5,000 · Civil RightsTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $102,000 · Human ServicesKARSH FAMILY SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesRISE AND SHINE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human Services+4 more: $7,500 · Human Services
Philanthropy$1,361,900Other$1,142,554Health$519,000Social Science$232,925International$155,000Civil Rights$155,000Human Services$149,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $880,400 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $469,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $232,925 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION: $200,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $166,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBABY2BABY: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $102,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKARSH FAMILY SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $31,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKUKIO HOOMANA FUND: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Louis D Brandeis Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE: $12,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMBAT HATE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $3,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST BOOK: $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.

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.

Jewish Community Foun…California Community …The Ralph M Parsons F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Bram & Elaine Goldsmi…The Morris a Hazan Fa…The Michael and Lori …Jewish Community Foun…Morgan Stanley Global…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Oregon Historical Society: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable Trust 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 65 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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