· Private foundation
The Samuel Goldwyn 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $324k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $826k
- $250k+3 grants · $6.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MPTVF-MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND | $4,480,000 |
| SOUND ART | $1,500,000 |
| CARAMOOR | $300,000 |
| BRENTWOOD SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| THE INNOCENCE PROJECT | $100,000 |
| AMERICARES FREE CLINICS | $100,000 |
| YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS | $100,000 |
| MPTVF-MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND (EST) | $70,000 |
| NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDENS | $56,000 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| DETROIT HIVES INC | $50,000 |
| A PLACE CALLED HOME | $50,000 |
| GIANT STEPS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER | $50,000 |
| LA FAMILY HOUSING | $25,000 |
| PATH | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $5.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +48% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2021, 36 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 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
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
- MPMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND5× · 2017–2021 · $4.6M · revenue +77%
- BSBRENTWOOD SCHOOL5× · 2017–2021 · $339k · revenue +42%
- TITHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC5× · 2017–2021 · $200k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- AFACADEMY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +81%
- UWUCLA - WRITING AWARDSone grant, 2017 · $32k
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +63%
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 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…
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
The specific purpose of this corporation is to: expand knowledge and appreciation of modern and contemporary latin american tine art that has been created since world war ii; to operate a museum; to collect and display latin american…
The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
Lace both champions and challenges the art of our time by fostering artists who innovate, explore, and risk. we move within and beyond our four walls to provide opportunities for diverse publics to engage deeply with contemporary art. in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Family Housing Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Portlight Strategies Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
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 24% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 121 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 MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND ↗
- Who funds SOUND ART INC DBA IN THE BAND ↗
- Who funds Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Young Eisner Scholars ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT HIVES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
- Who funds Giant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds St Anne's Family Services ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds WAIPA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Hanalei Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds SUMMAEVERYTHANG COMMUNITY CENTER IN ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Hammer Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds NEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds NORTH HOLLYWOOD INTERFAITH FOOD PAN ↗
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: 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
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 Samuel Goldwyn Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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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