· Private foundation
Gezellig Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $204k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $748k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUTCHTOWN SOUTH COMMUNITY CORPORATION | $225,000 |
| MISSOURI WORKERS CENTER | $110,000 |
| THOMAS DUNN LEARNING CENTER | $83,240 |
| Individual grant recipient | $80,000 |
| HOUSE US CARE OF AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| STATES NEWSROOM MISSOURI INDEPENDENT | $75,000 |
| MATOVU | $50,000 |
| MISSOURI FAMILY HEALTH COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| SOLIDAIRE NETWORK INC | $35,000 |
| METROPOLITAN CONGREGATIONS UNITED FOR ST LOUIS | $30,000 |
| CIVICS UNPLIGGED | $30,000 |
| CORP ACCOUNTABILITY | $25,000 |
| ACTION ART COLLABORATIVE | $20,000 |
| BETTER GIVING | $18,751 |
| ILLINOIS COMMUNITY POWER FUND CARE OFF NEO PHILANTHROPY | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of your 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 +27% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 13 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $601k 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
- SNSTATES NEWSROOM5× · 2021–2025 · $315k · revenue +27%
- CUCIVICS UNPLUGGED INC5× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +447%
RESOURCE GENERATION INC2× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +23%
Funded once
NDN COLLECTIVE INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -78%- HCHO CHOU FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $70k · revenue -131%
- SRSHARED ROOTS EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2021 · $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.
Our mission is to advocate for a just and equitable economy where poor and working people make more of the decisions that affect their daily lives. Through civic engagement, political advocacy, and issue-based voter education and…
The Community Builders Network of Metro St. Louis (CBN) is a coalition of community building organizations, including both place-based nonprofits and supporting partners. Our mission is to gather community leaders of all backgrounds to…
The St. Louis Workers Education Society (WES) educates and trains St. Louis residents, especially people of color, women and youth, to become community leaders. Our focus is on the intersection of workers rights, racial justice, sexual and…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
The Education Equity Center of St. Louis advances a regional approach to achieving full racial equity in education by building anti-racist capacity towards systems level practices and policy changes.
Communities Rise fosters movements to build power in communities impacted by systemic oppression. To create an equitable system, we pursue cross-sector collaboration, and provide capacity building and legal services for community…
Democracy Unlimited uplifts people to build a world where our systems of power prioritize the well-being of humans and the living world. We reclaim authority that has been unjustly seized by governments and corporations - all with the aim…
Dignity and Power Now (DPN) is a Los Angeles based grassroots organization that fights for the dignity and power of all incarcerated people, their families, and communities. DPNs mission is to build a Black and Brown led abolitionist…
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.
We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ndn Collective Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ho Chou Family Foundation. 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 9 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 51 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
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 STATES NEWSROOM ↗
- Who funds DUTCHTOWN SOUTH COMMUNITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Tenant Education Network ↗
- Who funds Infact DBA Corporate Accountability ↗
- Who funds Missouri Workers Center ↗
- Who funds NDN COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CIVICS UNPLUGGED INC ↗
- Who funds HO CHOU FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI FAMILY HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds POWER SHIFT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Freedom Community Center ↗
- Who funds Village ↗
- Who funds Center for Third World Organizing ↗
- Who funds RENEW NEW ENGLAND ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE GENERATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Maryland Matters Inc ↗
- Who funds St Louis Queer Support & Healing ↗
- Who funds Better Giving Inc ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds EQUITY LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · Missouri Organizing and Voter Engagement Action · Windward Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · New Venture Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc
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 Gezellig 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.
- African Peoples Education and Defen — 66% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% 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.