· Private foundation
Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k99 grants · $224k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $783k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+2 grants · $504k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $253,500 |
| FOOD & FRIENDS | $250,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $200,000 |
| CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA | $200,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN STLOUIS | $175,000 |
| WRITERS THEATRE | $100,000 |
| HYDE PARK ART CENTER | $85,000 |
| SABEW | $83,000 |
| PRITZKER COLLEGE PREP | $75,000 |
| CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN | $75,000 |
| ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC | $75,000 |
| INJUSTICE WATCH | $70,000 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $65,000 |
| THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $56,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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 +33% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
150 repeat relationships — 118 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k 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
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +17%
Northwestern University6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +33%- FFFOOD & FRIENDS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $979k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICAone grant, 2020 · $100k
- SOSOCIETY OF AMERICAN BUSINESS EDITING AND WRITINGone grant, 2024 · $83k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CELIAC DISEASE CENTone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
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."
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
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,…
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Contemporary Art and the most unlike its peers is Ventura Audubon Society. 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 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 12% 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.
160 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. 160 of the 231 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SHASTA ↗
- Who funds Columbia College Chicago ↗
- Who funds Writers Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds HYDE PARK ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Injustice Watch NFP ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds THE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley ↗
- Who funds WORLD YOUTH CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds PREPARE KIDS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER OXNARD & PORT HUENEME ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds CHAPTER ONE NFP ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JOURNALISM DEVELOPMENT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE SELFHELP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Experimental Sound Studio ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
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: 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
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 Walter and Karla Goldschmidt 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Trust — 100% of income from government
- Anacostia Watershed Society Inc — 15% of income from government
- Karuna Center for Peacebuilding Inc — 1% 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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