· Private foundation
Galena-Yorktown Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k39 grants · $134k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $905k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $652k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $1,026,000 |
| THE KENNEDY CENTER | $331,353 |
| ACTBLUE CHARITIES INC | $150,833 |
| THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER | $110,000 |
| AMERICAN VOTER EDUCATION FUND | $80,000 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC | $75,000 |
| DC JAZZ FESTIVAL | $70,000 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $66,666 |
| SOME (SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT) | $50,000 |
| AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT | $40,000 |
| ACTIVE MINDS | $35,000 |
| SISTER DISTRICT PROJECT | $35,000 |
| THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION | $35,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR COURT EXCELLENCE | $33,900 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
134 repeat relationships: 69 still active in FY2024, 65 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YOYESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC7× · 2017–2024 · $6.9M · revenue +44%
- NYNew York University6× · 2017–2023 · $578k · revenue +76%
- TVTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $571k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- TMThe Martha and John M Rivers Performance Hall Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue ×40
- LALINDA APPLE MONSON SCHOLARS FUNDone grant, 2019 · $50k
- IIInseparable Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue +231%
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.
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.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
How this is measured
202 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 202 of the 288 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEDY-WARREN RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds DC JAZZ FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCH ASSN OF WASHINGTON DC ↗
- Who funds SIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds ACTBLUE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR COURT EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds The Studio Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of Cancer Research ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds BROADFUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Active Minds Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds This is My Brave Inc ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds Youth Invest Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc · Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Galena-Yorktown Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Galena-Yorktown Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Art Works Studio School Inc: 23% of income from government
- Moco Kidsco Inc: 15% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
- Pyramid Atlantic Inc: 6% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
- Interfaith Works: 4% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Torah School of Greater Washington Inc: 2% of income from government
- Bender Jcc of Greater Washington: 1% of income from government
- Yeshiva of Greater Washington Inc: 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc: 0% of income from government
- Orlando Museum of Art Inc: 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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