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The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation at a glance

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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
7
States reached
$4.5M
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, FY2017 to 2021.

Human Services$4.8MArts & Culture$3.6MEducation$548kHealth$253kCrime & Legal$212kHousing & Shelter$139kEnvironment$98kFood & Nutrition$65kOther$0
02FY2021 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $324k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $826k
  • $250k+3 grants · $6.3M
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$218k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS$100,000
AMERICARES FREE CLINICS$100,000
MPTVF-MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND (EST)$70,000
NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDENS$56,000
GIANT STEPS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER$50,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$50,000
A PLACE CALLED HOME$50,000
DETROIT HIVES INC$50,000
PATH$25,000
LA FAMILY HOUSING$25,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUNG CENTER: $100 → 14%PATH: $25k → 14%PATH: $5k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $2k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $2k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $1k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $100k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $25k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $6k → 14%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $25k → 17%MPTVF-MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $4.5M → 14%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $25k → 17%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $56k → 14%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $25k → 17%MPTVF-MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $50k → 14%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $31k → 14%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $4k → 14%MPTVF-MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $4k → 14%GIVING SPIRIT: $10k → 14%ST ANNE'S: $10k → 14%ST ANNE'S: $10k → 14%ST ANNE'S: $2k → 14%ST ANNE'S: $2k → 14%ST ANNE'S: $1k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $100k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $50k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $25k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
WI
MI
NY
NV
IN
OH
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
TN
SC
DC
HI
AL
TX
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.3M · 59 repeat orgs$626k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +34% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
45

Total granted

$9.3M
$220k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+34%

Still filing today

59%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $406k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalEducationCivil RightsOther
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

  • MP
    MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND
    5× · 2017–2021 · $4.6M · revenue +77%
  • BS
    BRENTWOOD SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $339k · revenue +42%
  • TI
    THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $200k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • AF
    ACADEMY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +81%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $32k
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +63%
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
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
3
Museum of Latin American Art

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Los Angeles Waterkeeper

Los angeles waterkeeper's mission is to fight for the health of the region's waterways, and for sustainable, equitable and climate-friendly water supplies.

Environment
5
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

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…

International
6
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
8
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
10
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

Crime & Legal
11
Museum of Modern Art

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 & Culture
12
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Family Housing Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/77
Grantees still filing
57/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $4,624,562 · Human ServicesMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUNDTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesYoung Eisner Scholars: $175,000 · Human Services+6 more: $86,100 · Human ServicesSOUND ART INC DBA IN THE BAND: $2,601,700 · Arts & CultureSOUND ART INC DBA IN THE BANDCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $490,000 · Arts & CultureCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts …+12 more: $236,300 · Arts & Culture+12 moreTHE MAGINIS PROJECT-NAMM FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherTHE MAGIN…MPTVF-MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND (EST): $70,000 · OtherMPTVF-MOT…LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $50,000 · OtherLOS ANGEL…A PLACE CALLED HOME: $50,000 · OtherA PLACE C…BABY2BABY: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $32,483 · OtherLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $30,000 · OtherDETROIT HIVES INC: $65,000 · OtherDETROIT H…+67 more: $429,938 · Other+67 moreBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $339,000 · EducationNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · Education+4 more: $10,500 · EducationAMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC: $125,000 · HealthGiant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc: $50,000 · Health+5 more: $2,850 · HealthInternational Rescue Committee INC: $25,000 · InternationalDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE: $20,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $12,500 · InternationalGOOD360: $12,500 · International+2 more: $550 · InternationalNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $56,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $9,035 · Environment+2 more: $125 · Environment
Human Services$5,085,662Arts & Culture$3,328,000Other$862,421Education$369,500Health$177,850International$70,550Environment$65,160

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $4,624,562 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetSOUND ART INC DBA IN THE BAND: $2,601,700 over 4y, 92% of budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $490,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $339,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $200,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYoung Eisner Scholars: $175,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetAMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC: $125,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDETROIT HIVES INC: $65,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $56,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGiant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetACADEMY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBABY2BABY: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPATH: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $26,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Anne's Family Services: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWAIPA FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Hanalei Initiative Inc: $22,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMAEVERYTHANG COMMUNITY CENTER IN: $21,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH HOLLYWOOD INTERFAITH FOOD PAN: $15,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD360: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING SPIRIT: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $9,035 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAY SILICON VALLEY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMY SISTER'S PLACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildren of the Night: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLA JOLLA PARKS AND BEACHES INCORPORATED: $3,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetMINDFUL SCHOOLS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH JUSTICE COALITION INC: $2,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $2,200 over 3y, 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.

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.

California Community …Silicon Valley Commun…The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…The Annenberg Foundat…Liberty Hill Foundati…Weingart FoundationJewish Community Foun…Jewish Community Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Conrad N Hilton Found…The California Endowm…
California Community FoundationCA19.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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How do I get to The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Samuel Goldwyn 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.

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 121 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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