Illinois · Private foundation
Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 151
- Grants FY2025
- 109
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $253,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 108 to 133
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $44M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 142 | $3.0M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 109 | $2.8M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 123 | $2.6M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 113 | $2.7M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 133 | $2.5M | 34% |
| FY2020 | 108 | $2.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $1,136,490 | 6 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $1,023,025 | 6 | 0% |
| Food & Friends Inc | $978,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Chicago Public Media Inc | $950,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Washington University | $828,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Project Lifeline | $645,000 | 6 | 72% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Shasta | $599,500 | 3 | 32% |
| Columbia College Chicago | $590,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Writers Theatre Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Hyde Park Art Center | $385,000 | 6 | 3% |
Show all 157 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 67 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 147 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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Terra Foundation for American Art · Field Foundation of Illinois · Greater Washington Community Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation with peer funders
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About Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation
- How much does Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation give?
- Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation reported 151 grants totaling $3,118,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 108 and 133 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Education (20%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
- Who are Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Greater Chicago Food Depository ($1.1M), Northwestern University ($1.0M), Food & Friends Inc ($979k).
- Does Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Lloyd a Fry Foundation.
- Where is Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation based?
- Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation is based in IL.
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