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The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$32M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
284
Grants FY2024
259
Organizations funded FY2023
16%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$75,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$850,000
Organizations funded a year
246 to 264
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
21
Total assets, FY2024
$826M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalEnvironmentHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving271$32M16%
FY2023259$29M16%
FY2022264$33M14%
FY2021246$27M18%
FY2020248$27Mn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$38MHealth$21MInternational$18MEducation$18MCrime & Legal$10MEnvironment$6.0MPublic Benefit$4.9MRecreation & Sports$4.9MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Constitution Center$4,000,00057%
Tipping Point Community$3,750,00052%
Living Goods$3,300,00053%
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy$2,625,00052%
The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology$2,250,00022%
Brac USA Inc$2,220,00043%
Jerusalem Foundation Inc$2,000,00044%
Opera Philadelphia$1,700,00055%
Tidepool Project$1,515,00056%
American Journalism Project Inc$1,500,00042%
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All grantees of The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Constitution Center$4,000,00057%
Tipping Point Community$3,750,00052%
Living Goods$3,300,00053%
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy$2,625,00052%
The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology$2,250,00022%
Brac USA Inc$2,220,00043%
Jerusalem Foundation Inc$2,000,00044%
Opera Philadelphia$1,700,00055%
Tidepool Project$1,515,00056%
American Journalism Project Inc$1,500,00042%
Democracy Works Inc$1,500,00056%
The Barnes Foundation$1,350,00053%
Congregation Emanu-El$1,325,0005n/a
College Track$1,290,00051%
One Acre Fund$1,250,00050%
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco$1,250,00051%
The Carnegie Hall Corporation$1,250,00050%
Peer Health Exchange Inc$1,150,00056%
Manhattan Country School Inc$1,100,00053%
Juvenile Law Center$1,100,00057%
Reading Partners$1,016,66731%
President and Fellows of Middlebury College$1,000,00030%
Noora Health$950,00045%
Whyy Inc$925,00050%
Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco$875,00051%
Last Mile Health$850,00032%
Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation$850,00042%
The End Fund Inc$800,00041%
The Wilderness Society$800,00041%
Trickle Up Program Inc$800,00054%
San Francisco Food Bank$800,00050%
Mann Center for the Performing Arts$750,00052%
Larkin Street Youth Services$725,00051%
Dia Center for the Arts Inc$700,00051%
Community Legal Services Inc$700,00032%
The Forward Association Inc$675,00025%
Venture for America Inc$675,00054%
The New 42nd Street Inc$650,00051%
CalMatters$650,00051%
The Pennsylvania Ballet Association$625,00053%
Support Center for Child Advocates$600,00044%
Myagro Farms$600,00042%
The Marshall Project Inc$600,00051%
Esf Dream Camp Foundation$600,000416%
Medic Mobile Inc$600,00034%
Center for Family Representation Inc$600,00051%
The Campaign Legal Center Inc$575,00051%
Homeless Prenatal Program Inc$575,00051%
National Redistricting Foundation$575,00052%
Upstream USA Inc$550,00040%
Legal Services for Children Inc$550,00055%
Geisinger Health$550,00040%
Uniondocs Inc$525,000311%
Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd$510,00052%
The Aspen Institute Inc$500,00050%
Earthjustice$500,00050%
Bay Area Scores$500,00054%
826 Valencia$500,00052%
Pacific Institute for Studies in Development Environment & Security$500,00043%
International Cardiac Alliance Inc$500,000330%
Sierra Club Foundation$500,00050%
Eyelliance Inc$500,000516%
Mercy Housing California$500,00040%
Recidiviz Inc$500,00031%
Precision Development Inc$500,00044%
Roundabout Theatre Company Inc$500,00050%
Protect Democracy Project$480,00040%
Theatre Development Fund Inc$475,00021%
Aperture Foundation Inc$475,00052%
Friends of the High Line Inc$466,66751%
The Ghetto Film School Inc$466,00053%
Muso Inc$450,00032%
Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pa$450,00031%
School of American Ballet Inc$450,00051%
Philadelphia Futures for Youth$450,0003n/a
Judd Foundation$450,00044%
Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc$425,00051%
Capital B News Inc$400,00042%
Compass Family Services$400,00041%
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia$400,00041%
The Studio Museum in Harlem$400,00041%
Curtis Institute of Music$400,00050%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$400,00040%
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law$390,00041%
New York Restoration Project$375,00051%
Namati Inc$375,00051%
The Thacher School Inc$375,00050%
Girl Scouts of Greater NY Inc$370,00051%
Pioneer Works Art Foundation$350,00043%
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts$350,00012%
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History$350,00042%
Whitney Museum of American Art$350,00030%
Fuller Project for International Reporting Inc$345,00055%
Philadelphia Youth Basketball Inc$325,00023%
Education Law Center - PA$325,00053%
Upsolve Inc$310,000311%
Type Media Center Inc$300,00053%
OneJustice$300,00053%
California Academy of Sciences$300,00030%
Amref Health Africa Inc Inc (Amref)$300,00021%
Independence Historical Trust$300,00045%
United States Squash Racquets Assoc Inc$300,00022%
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Inc$300,00031%
American Society for Yad Vashem Inc$300,00030%
American Committee for Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem Inc$300,00040%
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc$285,00052%
Settlement Music School of Philadelphia$275,00051%
Family House Inc$275,00031%
The Drawing Center Inc$275,00053%
Las Fotos Project$260,0005n/a
New Art Publications Inc$250,00053%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$250,0001n/a
Dimagi Inc$250,0001n/a
Children's Museum of the Arts Inc$250,00055%
Bay Area Discovery Museum$250,00051%
Peconic Land Trust Inc$250,00050%
Luminary Impact Fund$250,00013%
The Bail Project Inc$250,00011%
Jewish Theological Seminary of America$250,0001n/a
Financing Alliance for Health$250,00024%
Public Art Fund Inc$250,00051%
Summer Search$250,00050%
Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation$250,00031%
Reproductive Health Access Project Inc$250,00054%
New Alternatives for Children Inc$250,00050%
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc$250,00020%
Creative Time Inc$237,50053%
Bay Area Legal Aid$230,00050%
The 19th News$225,00040%
Artists Space Inc$210,00043%
Volunteers of Legal Service Inc$210,00052%
Ten Strands$200,00048%
Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy$200,0004n/a
The Chinati Foundation$200,00042%
International Studio & Curatorial Program Inc$200,00043%
University of California San Francisco Foundation$200,00010%
Breaking Ground Housing Development Fund Corporation$200,00020%
Fund Access Forward$200,000119%
New York Shakespeare Festival$200,00040%
Music Will Inc$200,00022%
Brooklyn Public Library$200,00040%
Harlem School of the Arts Inc$193,00051%
Open Door Legal$190,00051%
Running Start$185,00056%
Planned Parenthood Keystone$175,00031%
Recess Activities Inc$175,00055%
Museum Views Ltd$175,0004100%
Jamestown Community Center$170,00041%
Eastern Mennonite University$155,00050%
The 52nd Street Project Inc$153,00053%
Printed Matter Inc$150,00052%
Lake Forest College$150,00030%
Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts$150,000512%
Pacific Institute$150,0001n/a
Camp Kesem National$150,00051%
Id Insight Inc$150,00011%
College Summit Inc$150,00032%
The Wilma Theater$150,00041%
Juma Ventures Inc$150,00021%
Marin Country Day School$150,00020%
Brooklyn Greenway Initiative$150,00049%
Direct Relief$150,00010%
Dyf$150,00053%
Mission Asset Fund$150,00020%
Solutions Journalism Network Inc$150,00022%
Art21 Inc$145,00052%
The Surfrider Foundation$145,00050%
Environmental Traveling Companions$140,00043%
New Museum of Contemporary Art$125,00040%
She Should Run$125,00053%
New York City Center Inc$125,00030%
The People's Light & Theatre Company$125,00051%
Francisco Park Conservancy$125,00014%
The Academy of Vocal Arts$125,00051%
National Abortion Federation$125,00031%
Citykids Foundation Inc$121,000451%
Refugepoint Inc$120,00012%
Emma's Torch Ltd$120,00052%
The Second Stage Theatre Inc$110,00031%
Research for Action Inc$110,00021%
New Door Ventures Fka Golden Gate Community Inc$100,00021%
Digital Green Foundation$100,00011%
Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia$100,000211%
The Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York Inc$100,00051%
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center$100,000119%
National Trust for Local News$100,00010%
The News Literacy Project Inc$100,00021%
National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc$100,00020%
Germantown Friends School$100,0002n/a
The Schuylkill Center For Environmental Education$100,00041%
Save The Bay$100,00041%
Volunteers in Medicine - San Francisco$100,00023%
New York Stage and Film Inc$100,00043%
Yeshiva University$100,00020%
Public Rights Project$100,00021%
Family Empowerment Media Inc$100,00014%
City Surf Project$100,00047%
Physicians for Human Rights Inc$100,00021%
Cathedral Church of St John the Divine$100,0002n/a
Phipps Neighborhoods Inc$100,00011%
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends$100,0001n/a
Queens Museum of Art$100,00021%
The Contemporary Jewish Museum$100,00012%
Kickstart International Inc$100,00022%
Jacob Burns Film Center Inc$100,00021%
The Parrish Art Museum Inc$91,00031%
Behind the Book Inc$85,00053%
Playing on Air Inc$85,000425%
Elem Youth in Distress Inc$80,00023%
Girls Write Now Inc$80,00022%
The National Press Club Journalism Institute Inc$80,00043%
Resolve Philadelphia Inc$80,00022%
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc$80,00040%
Fringearts$75,00031%
The First Tee of Greater Philadelphia Inc$75,00031%
World Affairs Council of Northern California$75,00013%
Red Hook Initiative$75,00031%
Rhode Island Parent Information Network Inc$75,00011%
Swiss Institute$75,00041%
Day One of New York Inc$75,00031%
TERRIFIC Inc$75,00031%
Breakthrough of Greater Philadelphia$75,00032%
The Jackson Laboratory$75,00010%
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc$75,00011%
Boulder Valley Women's Health Center Inc$70,00031%
Read65 Inc$70,0001n/a
Moving Traditions$62,50050%
Early Music Foundation Inc$62,500542%
Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance Project$62,50057%
The Naumburg Orchestral Concerts Inc$62,50055%
Waterfront Alliance Inc$60,00021%
Longhouse Reserve$60,00031%
Gowanus Canal Conservancy Inc$60,00041%
Louis Armstrong House Museum$60,00031%
People's Theatre Project Inc$55,00012%
The Asia Society$50,00010%
Women's Medical Fund Inc$50,00022%
Rogue Farm Corps$50,00016%
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars$50,00010%
National Coalition Against Censorship Inc$50,00012%
The Knowledge House Fellowship Inc$50,00011%
Project Own Inc$50,000123%
High Desert Test Sites$50,00027%
City Year Inc$50,00010%
Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation$50,00011%
The Friends of the Wissahickon Inc$50,00022%
New York City Urban Debate League Inc$50,00012%
Philadelphia Film Society$50,00040%
Rx Art Inc$50,00022%
The Council for Canadian American Relations Inc$50,00021%
Khalsa Aid International USA Inc$50,00011%
Walnut Street Theatre Corporation$50,00040%
Women's Project & Productions Inc$45,00022%
A Breeze of Hope Foundation$40,00042%
National Network of Abortion Funds$40,00021%
Neighborhood Coalition for Shelter Inc$37,50011%
Jbi International Inc$37,50030%
International Print Center New York$30,00022%
Early Steps Inc$30,00032%
Provide Inc$30,00031%
Rebuild Local News$25,00011%
Artists in Residence Inc$25,00024%
Climate Ride Inc$25,00010%
Arc Athens Inc$25,000112%
Young Adult Institute Inc$25,00020%
National Association of Counsel for Children$25,00011%
Pennsylvania Bipartisan Climate Ini$25,000142%
Juilliard School$25,00010%
Wave Hill Incorporated$25,00010%
Exploring the Arts Inc$25,00012%
The Artist Book Foundation$25,000115%
Bay Scholars$25,00011%
Child and Family Services of Newport County$25,00010%
Marin Horizon School Inc$25,00010%
American Modern Opera Company$25,00012%
Literacy Partners Inc$25,00011%
Legal Link$25,00014%
Jane's Due Process Inc$20,00020%
New York Focus Inc$20,00011%
Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library Inc$20,00021%
Pushblack$20,00010%
Bay City News Foundation$20,00014%
Queer Art Inc$20,00022%
Teen Art Salon Inc$15,000115%
The Architectural League of New York$15,00011%
The Young People's Project Inc$12,50011%
Bidoun Projects Inc$10,00011%
World Around Inc$10,00011%
Mestizo Dance Inc$5,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 125 recipients with no EIN on record ($47M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Constitution Center: $4,000,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetTipping Point Community: $3,750,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetLiving Goods: $3,300,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetGolden Gate National Parks Conservancy: $2,625,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetThe Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology: $2,250,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBrac USA Inc: $2,220,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetJerusalem Foundation Inc: $2,000,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetOpera Philadelphia: $1,700,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetTidepool Project: $1,515,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetAmerican Journalism Project Inc: $1,500,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetDemocracy Works Inc: $1,500,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetThe Barnes Foundation: $1,350,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetCollege Track: $1,290,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetOne Acre Fund: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Community Center of San Francisco: $1,250,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Corporation: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPeer Health Exchange Inc: $1,150,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetManhattan Country School Inc: $1,100,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetJuvenile Law Center: $1,100,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetReading Partners: $1,016,667 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNoora Health: $950,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetWhyy Inc: $925,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco: $875,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetLast Mile Health: $850,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetDraper Richards Kaplan Foundation: $850,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetThe End Fund Inc: $800,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetThe Wilderness Society: $800,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTrickle Up Program Inc: $800,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetSan Francisco Food Bank: $800,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMann Center for the Performing Arts: $750,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services: $725,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetDia Center for the Arts Inc: $700,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCommunity Legal Services Inc: $700,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetThe Forward Association Inc: $675,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetVenture for America Inc: $675,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetThe New 42nd Street Inc: $650,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCalMatters: $650,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetThe Pennsylvania Ballet Association: $625,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetSupport Center for Child Advocates: $600,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetMyagro Farms: $600,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetThe Marshall Project Inc: $600,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetEsf Dream Camp Foundation: $600,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetMedic Mobile Inc: $600,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetCenter for Family Representation Inc: $600,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetThe Campaign Legal Center Inc: $575,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $575,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNational Redistricting Foundation: $575,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

Lily Auchincloss Foundation IncNY46.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Ag Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Skoll Fund · Arison Arts Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Cowles Charitable Trust · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco 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.

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How do I get to The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Horace W Goldsmith 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.

About The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation

How much does The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation give?
The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation reported 284 grants totaling $31,953,334 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 246 and 264 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Health (14%), International (12%).
Who are The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: National Constitution Center ($4.0M), Tipping Point Community ($3.8M), Living Goods ($3.3M).
Does The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation 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 The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc, The Ford Foundation, Ag Foundation.
Where is The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation based?
The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation is based in NY.

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 415 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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