Goldseker Foundation

OUR MISSION Since making our first grants in 1976, the Goldseker Foundation has been a civic partner with Baltimore area institutions, nonprofit organizations, private and public sector leaders, and neighborhoods in the region’s communities, especially in Baltimore City.Over four decades, we have sought to develop long-term personal and institutional relationships to advance our core mission: attracting, engaging, encouraging, investing in, and sustaining good ideas and people, toward a socially and economically healthy future. GOALS Our Goals for Baltimore Position Baltimore as an excellent place to live, learn, and inves tRetain and attract a wide range of educated, talented people from Baltimore and around the world Develop opportunities for a large and growing middle class population OUR HISTORY Since an original bequest of $11 million from the estate of Morris Goldseker in 1975, the Goldseker Foundation has granted $118 million to approximately 630 nonprofit organizations and projects in the Baltimore metropolitan area. Though the focus of the Foundation’s grantmaking has evolved over time, in all of our grantmaking we have sought to honor Mr. Goldseker’s wish that the Foundation serve the Baltimore community by investing in its institutions and people.Today, the Goldseker Foundation works in partnership with the city’s civic leadership, a well-established nonprofit sector, and a growing community of entrepreneurs to serve the Baltimore community, through grantmaking primarily in the areas of community development, education, and nonprofit organizational development. Looking forward, the foundation is exploring opportunities to grow our portfolio of program related investments. Members of the Goldseker family continue to serve on the board of directors, along with independent directors and the input of an advisory committee comprised of the presidents of three of Baltimore’s leading institutions.