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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
286
Grants FY2024
284
Organizations funded FY2023
73%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$32,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
267 to 297
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
40
Total assets, FY2024
$384M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 73% of the organizations John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving286$11M66%
FY2023284$12M73%
FY2022286$11M65%
FY2021270$9.5M69%
FY2020267$9.5M62%
FY2019274$9.6M66%
FY2018287$9.2M59%
FY2017297$9.0Mn/a
83% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$45MScience & Tech$5.1MEnvironment$2.6MSocial Science$2.3MCivil Rights$2.3MHealth$2.2MReligion$2.0MPublic Benefit$1.9MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 1,578 recipients with no EIN on record ($81M), not named here.

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About John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

How much does John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation give?
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation reported 286 grants totaling $11,409,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 267 and 297 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (55%), Science & Tech (6%), Environment (3%).
Who are John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: New York Historical Society ($200k), Rhc Community Education Center Inc ($65k), Anthony Franklin Demarco and Charlotte Demarco Foundation ($55k).
Does John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation based?
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation is based in NY.

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 1583 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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