New York · 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.
- $966k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $225,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 14
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $392k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations Gezellig Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $966k | 62% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $630k | 71% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $420k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $138k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $795k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $624k | 90% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $300k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Congregations United for St Louis | $550,000 | 5 | n/a |
| States Newsroom | $315,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Dutchtown South Community Corporation | $225,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Tenant Education Network | $165,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Infact DBA Corporate Accountability | $135,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Missouri Workers Center | $125,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Ndn Collective Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Civics Unplugged Inc | $95,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Ho Chou Family Foundation | $70,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Missouri Family Health Council Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gezellig Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Gezellig Foundation
- How much does Gezellig Foundation give?
- Gezellig Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $965,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Gezellig Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (16%), Arts & Culture (15%), Community Improvement (9%).
- Who are Gezellig Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Metropolitan Congregations United for St Louis ($550k), States Newsroom ($315k), Dutchtown South Community Corporation ($225k).
- Does Gezellig Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gezellig Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gezellig Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Impactassetsinc, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Gezellig Foundation based?
- Gezellig Foundation is based in NY.
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