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Sidney & Bobette Guller Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$323k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
6%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$149,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 17
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$3.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 6% of the organizations Sidney & Bobette Guller Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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 arriving14$323k43%
FY202316$309k6%
FY202216$337k6%
FY202117$439k24%
FY202017$299k76%
FY201912$66k75%
FY201817$175kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$748kHuman Services$513kMembership Benefit$305kHealth$192kEducation$114kPhilanthropy$105kCommunity Improvement$23kArts & Culture$17kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kol Rinah$607,1403n/a
Jewish Community Center$338,50061%
Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity Inc$304,55154%
Jewish Family Services of St Louis$157,36251%
The Sigma Alpha Mu Foundation$88,37616%
Mo Better Foundation$17,5003n/a
The Crown Center Inc$13,50050%
Eugene Field House Foundation$10,00013%
National Council of Jewish Women St Louis Section$10,00030%
The Saint Louis Zoo Association$2,50010%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($385k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sidney & Bobette Guller Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Community Center: $338,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSigma Alpha Mu Fraternity Inc: $304,551 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetJewish Family Services of St Louis: $157,362 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetThe Sigma Alpha Mu Foundation: $88,376 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetThe Crown Center Inc: $13,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEugene Field House Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNational Council of Jewish Women St Louis Section: $10,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Saint Louis Zoo Association: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDonald Danforth Plant Science Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMissouri Historical Society: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $1,240 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Missouri: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Louis Symphony Orchestra: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Backstoppers Inc Fka Policemen & Firemen Fund of St Louis: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuscular Dystrophy Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis Society for the Blind: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Food Search Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Tower Grove Park Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Louis Area Food Bank Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShrine of St Joseph's Friends Inc: $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Millstone FoundationMO15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Millstone Foundation · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Jca Charitable Foundation · The Chod Family Foundation · Harvey Kornblum Foundation · Harlene & Marvin Wool Foundation · Jewish Federation of St Louis · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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.

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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Sidney & Bobette Guller Family Foundation

How much does Sidney & Bobette Guller Family Foundation give?
Sidney & Bobette Guller Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $323,433 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Sidney & Bobette Guller Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (36%), Human Services (25%), Membership Benefit (15%).
Who are Sidney & Bobette Guller Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Kol Rinah ($607k), Jewish Community Center ($339k), Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity Inc ($305k).
Does Sidney & Bobette Guller Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sidney & Bobette Guller Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sidney & Bobette Guller Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Millstone Foundation, Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Sidney & Bobette Guller Family Foundation based?
Sidney & Bobette Guller Family Foundation is based in MO.

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 53 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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