California · Private foundation
The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation
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.
- $7.5M
- Granted FY2021
- 38
- Grants FY2021
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2021
- Median grant, FY2021
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $4,480,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 65
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 7
- Total assets, FY2021
- $218k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 38% of the organizations The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $406k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 37 | $7.4M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $299k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $333k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 56 | $1.2M | 27% |
| FY2017 | 65 | $709k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motion Picture and Television Fund | $4,624,562 | 5 | 7% |
| Sound Art Inc Dba in the Band | $2,601,700 | 4 | 92% |
| Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc | $490,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Brentwood School | $339,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Innocence Project Inc | $200,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Young Eisner Scholars | $175,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Americares Free Clinics Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Second Stage Theatre Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Detroit Hives Inc | $65,000 | 2 | 19% |
| National Tropical Botanical Garden | $56,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 76 grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($434k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Group · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The California Endowment
How this is measured
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About The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation
- How much does The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation give?
- The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $7,450,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Human Services (48%), Arts & Culture (36%), Education (6%).
- Who are The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Motion Picture and Television Fund ($4.6M), Sound Art Inc Dba in the Band ($2.6M), Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc ($490k).
- Does The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Samuel Goldwyn 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 Samuel Goldwyn Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.
- Where is The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation based?
- The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation is based in CA.
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