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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 FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$634kArts & Culture$590kCommunity Improvement$331kEducation$248kPublic Benefit$225kHousing & Shelter$225kPhilanthropy$202kCivil Rights$186kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $204k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $748k
$30,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$392k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUTCHTOWN SOUTH COMMUNITY CORPORATION$225,000
MISSOURI WORKERS CENTER$110,000
THOMAS DUNN LEARNING CENTER$83,240
Individual grant recipient$80,000
STATES NEWSROOM MISSOURI INDEPENDENT$75,000
HOUSE US CARE OF AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION$75,000
MATOVU$50,000
MISSOURI FAMILY HEALTH COUNCIL$50,000
SOLIDAIRE NETWORK INC$35,000
CIVICS UNPLIGGED$30,000
METROPOLITAN CONGREGATIONS UNITED FOR ST LOUIS$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOLIDARITY ECONOMY NETWORK INC: $150k → 12%CORP ACCOUNTABILITY: $25k → 16%CENTER FOR THIRD WORLD ORGANIZING REPARATIONS SUMMER: $25k → 10%SHARED ROOTS EDUCATION FUND: $50k → 10%BETTER GIVING: $19k → 16%NEO PHILANTHROPY: $15k → 17%HO CHOU FAMILY FOUNDATION: $70k → 17%MISSOURI INDEPENDENTSTATES NEWSROOM: $75k → 14%MISSOURI FAMILY HEALTH COUNCIL: $50k → 17%MO JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $20k → 21%STATES NEWSROOM: $80k → 9%RENEW NEW ENGLAND ALLIANCE: $25k → 14%TENANT EDUCATION NETWORK: $75k → 7%TENANT EDUCATION NETWORK: $75k → 14%NDN COLLECTIVE: $100k → 14%SOLIDARITY ECONOMY NETWORK INC: $30k → 12%CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY: $60k → 16%CENTER FOR THIRD WORLD ORGANIZING: $25k → 10%ILLINOIS COMMUNITY POWER FUND CARE OFF NEO PHILANTHROPY: $15k → 17%STATES NEWSROOM MISSOURI INDEPENDENT: $75k → 14%TENANT EDUCATION NETWORK: $15k → 14%CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY: $50k → 16%THE CENTER FOR THIRD WORLD ORGANIZING REPARATIONS SUMMER: $15k → 10%STATES NEWSROOM MISSOURI INDEPENDENT: $75k → 14%THOMAS DUNN LEARNING CENTER: $83k → 21%GAMALIEL NETWORK: $25k → 14%CORP ACCOUNTABILITY: $25k → 16%HOUSE US CARE OF AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION: $75k → 17%MISSOURI WORKERS CENTER: $110k → 21%CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY: $25k → 16%AMALGAMATED BANK: $50k → 14%FREEDOM COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 21%PRX: $115k → 16%ACTION ART COLLABORATIVE: $20k → 21%SOLIDAIRE NETWORK INC: $35k → 21%CIVICS UNPLUGGED INC: $20k → 17%SOLIDAIRE NETWORK INC: $20k → 21%CIVICS UNPLIGGED: $30k → 17%METROPOLITAN CONGREGATIONS UNITED: $220k → 21%METROPOLITAN CONGREGATIONS UNITED: $100k → 21%METROPOLITAN CONGREGATIONS UNITED FOR ST LOUIS: $100k → 21%METROPOLITAN CONGREGATIONS UNITED FOR ST LOUIS: $100k → 21%METROPOLITAN CONGREGATIONS UNITED FOR ST LOUIS: $30k → 21%MATOVU: $50k → 21%ST LOUIS QUEER SUPPORT & HEALING: $20k → 21%MATOVU: $20k → 21%NORTH NEWSTEAD: $80k → 21%DUTCHTOWN SOUTH COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $225k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
SD
PA
RI
CA
MO
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 15 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
23

Total granted

$2.7M
$572k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+5%

Still filing today

53%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $601k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEducationEmploymentEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SN
    STATES NEWSROOM
    5× · 2021–2025 · $315k · revenue +27%
  • CU
    CIVICS UNPLUGGED INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +447%
  • RESOURCE GENERATION INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • NDN COLLECTIVE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -78%
  • HC
    HO CHOU FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $70k · revenue -131%
  • AB
    AMALGAMATED BANK
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Missouri Workers Power

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…

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2
Community Builders Network of Metro St Louis

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…

Community Improvement
3
St Louis Workers Education Society

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…

Human Services
4
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
5
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
6
Edhub Stl

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.

Education
7
Communities Rise

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…

Crime & Legal
8
Democracy Unlimited

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…

Education
9
Dignity and Power Now

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…

Philanthropy
10
Oregon Justice Network

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…

Human Services
11
Minnesota Voice

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.

Public Benefit
12
Fair Work Center

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…

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ndn Collective Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 51 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
14/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRX: $855,000 · OtherPRXMETROPOLITAN CONGREGATIONS UNITED FOR ST LOUIS: $550,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN CONGREGATIONS UNITED FOR ST LOUISDUTCHTOWN SOUTH COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $225,000 · OtherDUTCHTOWN SOUTH COMMUNITY CORPORATIONSOLIDARITY ECONOMY NETWORK INC: $180,000 · OtherSOLIDARITY ECONOMY NETWORK INC+31 more: $853,749 · Other+31 moreSTATES NEWSROOM: $315,000 · Arts & CultureSTATES NEW…Maryland Matters Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMaryland M…BREAD & ROSES MISSOURI: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureThe Tenant Education Network: $165,000 · EducationCIVICS UNPLUGGED INC: $95,000 · EducationNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementFreedom Community Center: $50,000 · Community ImprovementVillage: $25,000 · Community ImprovementInfact DBA Corporate Accountability: $135,000 · EnvironmentRENEW NEW ENGLAND ALLIANCE: $25,000 · EnvironmentMissouri Workers Center: $125,000 · EmploymentMISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $20,000 · EmploymentHO CHOU FAMILY FOUNDATION: $70,000 · PhilanthropyRESOURCE GENERATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyBetter Giving Inc: $18,751 · Philanthropy
Other$2,663,749Arts & Culture$355,000Education$260,000Community Improvement$175,000Environment$160,000Employment$145,000Philanthropy$113,751

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTATES NEWSROOM: $315,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Tenant Education Network: $165,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetInfact DBA Corporate Accountability: $135,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMissouri Workers Center: $125,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCIVICS UNPLUGGED INC: $95,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetHO CHOU FAMILY FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMISSOURI FAMILY HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPOWER SHIFT NETWORK: $50,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetFreedom Community Center: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetRENEW NEW ENGLAND ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRESOURCE GENERATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSt Louis Queer Support & Healing: $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMaryland Matters Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBREAD & ROSES MISSOURI: $15,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUITY LEGAL SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFAITH FOR JUSTICE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDIASPORA CONNECTIONS UNLIMITED: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetAFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY REACH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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 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 RENEW NEW ENGLAND ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Center for Third World Organizing ↗
  • Who funds RESOURCE GENERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Village ↗
  • Who funds St Louis Queer Support & Healing ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds Maryland Matters Inc ↗
  • Who funds Better Giving Inc ↗
  • Who funds BREAD & ROSES MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds EQUITY LEGAL SERVICES 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.

St Louis Community Fo…ImpactassetsincAmalgamated Charitabl…Common Counsel Founda…Proteus Fund IncTides FoundationMissouri Organizing a…Windward FundNEO Philanthropy IncThe Community Foundat…New Venture FundRockefeller Philanthr…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO22.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gezellig Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gezellig Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 66%
  • African Peoples Education and Defen: 66% of income from government
  • Infact Dba Corporate Accountability: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home