· Private foundation
The Goldsmith Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $696k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ASSOCIATED | $2,025,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $186,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $120,000 |
| BUDDY PROGRAM | $100,000 |
| MASORTI FDN FOR CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM | $90,000 |
| FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE | $35,000 |
| BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $25,000 |
| COLLEGE BOUND FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THREAD | $20,000 |
| CHAI | $15,000 |
| EVERYMAN THEATRE | $10,000 |
| GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION | $10,000 |
| CENTER STAGE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +64%- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum8× · 2018–2025 · $725k · revenue +16%
- BSBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $305k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BALTIMORE INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +21%
- GCGOUCHER COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +5%
- SRSTABLE ROAD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +7%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
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.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Global citizens school's mission is to inspire and prepare the next generation or global citizens. we will do this by supporting students, ages 3-11, to reach their full academic and leadership potential in a nurturing learning…
The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thread Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stable Road Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 118 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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THREAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPEYER LEGACY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYMAN THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds City Neighbors Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Building Science Technology and Education Partnerships Inc ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BALTIMORE LEARNING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds DYSLEXIA TUTORING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds DENVER ACADEMY INC ↗
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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Lockhart Vaughan Foundation · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Wolman Family Foundation Inc · Clayton Baker Trust
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 The Goldsmith Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- St Vincent De Paul of Baltimore Inc — 40% of income from government
- Everyman Theatre Inc — 15% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Maryland Academy of Sciences — 9% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc — 6% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Maryland Inc — 1% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Goucher College — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission 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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