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The Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) at a glance

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The Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied)

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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$613k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$1.7MPhilanthropy$800kArts & Culture$790kEducation$725kCommunity Improvement$613kEnvironment$155kInternational$70k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
  • $250k+2 grants · $883k
$200,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF HOPE$613,000
UCLA FOUNDATION$269,881
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - HOLOCAUST TEACHER INSTITUTE$64,500
HOLOCAUST DOCUMENTATION AND EDUCATION CENTER$60,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MAYO CLINIC: $5k → 9%FRIENDS OF BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS: $5k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $150k → 14%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENCE COUNCIL: $150k → 17%UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $100k → 14%HOLOCAUST DOCUMENTATION AND EDUCATION CENTER: $60k → 13%FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $220k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES: $150k → 14%HOLOCAUST DOCUMENATION & EDUC CENTER INC: $20k → 13%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $150k → 14%HOLOCAUST DOCUMENTATION EDUCATION C: $10k → 13%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $270k → 14%UCLA FOUNDATION: $270k → 14%SHELTERS FOR ISRAEL: $50k → 14%UCLA FOUNDATION: $14k → 14%SHELTERS FOR ISRAEL: $20k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $613k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $14k → 14%SAINT JOHN'S HOSPITAL AND HEALTHE CENTER FOUNDATION: $14k → 14%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $286k → 14%CEDAR-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $286k → 14%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $286k → 14%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $286k → 14%LOS ANGELES MUSEUM OF THE HOLOCAUST: $400k → 14%HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $200k → 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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 6 repeat orgs$513k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$3.0M
$448k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+3%

Still filing today

83%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentOther
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
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +55%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    3× · 2021–2023 · $450k · revenue +34%
  • HD
    HOLOCAUST DOCUMENTATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -9%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +3%
  • MC
    MAYO CLINIC
    one grant, 2021 · $72k
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

—
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
7
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

—
8
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
9
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
10
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
11
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
12
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Shelters for Israel. 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

12 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. 12 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,142,856 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $450,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles+2 more: $19,000 · HealthCITY OF HOPE: $627,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPEMAYO CLINIC: $72,078 · OtherMAYO CLINICShelters for Israel: $70,000 · OtherShelters for IsraelUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI ADVANCEMENT: $64,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI A…UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - HOLOCAUST TEACHER INSTITUTE: $64,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI -…+1 more: $5,000 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $800,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMEN…HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $600,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MUSEUM L…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $100,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States …HOLOCAUST DOCUMENTATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST DOCUMENT…UCLA FOUNDATION: $553,763 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATI…University of Miami: $42,500 · EducationUniversity of…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $150,000 · Environment
Health$1,611,856Other$903,078Community Improvement$800,000Arts & Culture$790,000Education$596,263Environment$150,000

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 budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,142,856 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $800,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $600,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $553,763 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $450,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLOCAUST DOCUMENTATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC: $90,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetShelters for Israel: $70,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $42,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $5,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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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Find your warmest path to The Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) 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 17 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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