· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k87 grants · $2.1M
- $50k–250k152 grants · $14M
- $250k+44 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER | $850,000 |
| TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY | $750,000 |
| GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY | $750,000 |
| AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT | $500,000 |
| YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT | $500,000 |
| YALE LAW SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| THE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW | $500,000 |
| DEMOCRACY WORKS | $500,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $500,000 |
| THE BEGINNINGS FUND | $500,000 |
| LIVING GOODS | $400,000 |
| LIVING GOODS | $400,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL OF NEW YORK | $400,000 |
| LAST MILE HEALTH | $350,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.
320 repeat relationships: 227 still active in FY2024, 93 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +119%
- LGLIVING GOODS5× · 2020–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +59%
- TWTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY2× · 2020–2022 · $2.3M · revenue +39%
Funded once
- C(CP2023 (CALDER PHILADELPHIA)one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- YSYALE SCHOOL OF ORGANIZATTION AND MANAGEMENTone grant, 2020 · $600k
- PAPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTSone grant, 2020 · $350k · revenue -20%
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.
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.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
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 npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…
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…
How this is measured
280 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. 280 of the 415 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds LIVING GOODS ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds BRAC USA INC ↗
- Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Tidepool Project ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
- Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds NOORA HEALTH ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Upstream Usa Inc: 4% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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