Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable
Beverly Hills, CA · EIN 81-4663510. Reported 96 grants totalling $3,014,579 to 49 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
5 of the organizations Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable funded make grants themselves, and it reported 14 grants totalling $1,180,400 to them. That is 39% of the $3,002,079 of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Federation Council of Greater La | federated giving programme | California | $790,400 | 5 | 5 | 2025 | Its form does not ask |
| Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles | federated giving programme | California | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 | Its form does not ask |
| Focusing Philanthropy Inc | grantmaking organization | California | $150,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 | Its form does not ask |
| The Jewish Federations of North America Inc | federated giving programme | New York | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| United Way Inc | federated giving programme | California | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $15,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $215,400.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Federation Council of Greater La | Los Angeles, CA | $790,400 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | Los Angeles, CA | $319,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | Washington, DC | $232,925 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Jewish Community Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Wilshire Boulevard Temple | Los Angeles, CA | $172,650 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| BABY2BABY | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Focusing Philanthropy Inc | Santa Monica, CA | $150,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Anti-Defamation League | New York, NY | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| The Innocence Project Inc | New York, NY | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | Los Angeles, CA | $80,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Keep Memory Alive | Las Vegas, NV | $74,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Save the Children Federation Inc | Fairfield, CT | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The American Independent Foundation | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| United Jewish Federation | Johnstown, PA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts | Beverly Hills, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The UCLA Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $32,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| American Friends of Hebrew University Inc | New York, NY | $31,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Kukio Hoomana Fund | Kailua Kona, HI | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Alliance for Children's Rights | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| KIPP Social Public Schools | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Karsh Family Social Service Center Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vision to Learn | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Hawaii Community Foundation | Honolulu, HI | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jewish Federations of North America Inc | New York, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United Way Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund | Atlanta, GA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Oregon Historical Society | Portland, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Aspen Valley Hospital Foundation | Aspen, CO | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ethos Inc | Santa Rosa, CA | $11,210 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Los Angeles Philharmonic Association | Los Angeles, CA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Aspen Valley Hospital Foundation | Aspen, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Combat Hate Foundation | Moundridge, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rise and Shine Foundation Inc | Kansas City, MO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Stanford University | Redwood City, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The John Thomas Dye School | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Three Square | Las Vegas, NV | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Awareness | Los Angeles, CA | $3,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County | Los Angeles, CA | $3,400 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Food Bank for New York City | New York, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Saban Community Clinic | Los Angeles, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Hillcrest Country Club | Los Angeles, CA | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust | Los Angeles, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Museum of Modern Art | New York, NY | $280 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY | $214 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
25 of 49 (51%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 52%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Oregon Historical Society
Jordan Schnitzer Oregon Museum of Art - Combat Hate Foundation
to support Combat Antisemitism movement
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 83 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 15 | $499,800 | $16,800 |
| 2022 | 14 | $609,000 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 16 | $656,925 | $12,500 |
| 2024 | 28 | $632,690 | $10,000 |
| 2025 | 23 | $616,164 | $6,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
70% of its giving went to organizations in California.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Karen and Russell Goldsmith Family Charitable's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 9350 Wilshire Blvd 302, Beverly Hills, CA, 90212. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
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