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Suleyman D Celimli Foundation at a glance

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Suleyman D Celimli 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.

$9k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
7
States reached
$142k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$1,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$1,000
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY$1,000
WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$1,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE$750
PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC$520
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC$500
FCNL EDUCATION FUND$500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$500
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY$500
NATURE CONSERVANCY$250
BOSTON GLOBE FOUNDATION$250
ASSEMBLY OF TURKISH AMERICAN ASSOCIATIONS$250
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$250
HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL$250
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $500 → 8%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.
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 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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
4
The International Dark-Sky Association Inc

Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.

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5
Free Press Action Fund

Free press action fund fights for your rights to connect and communicate. we fight to save the free and open internet, curb runaway media consolidation, protect press freedom, and promote digital civil rights. we believe that change…

Civil Rights
6
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
7
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
8
Out of Eden Walk

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and national geographic fellow paul salopek is retracing on foot the global migration of our ancestors in a 24,000-mile, multi-year odyssey that begins in ethiopia and ends in tierra del fuego.

Arts & Culture
9
Free Press

Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…

Arts & Culture
10
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
11
Global Investigative Journalism Network Inc

To support the training and sharing of information among journalists worldwide in investigative and computer-assisted reporting.

Arts & Culture
12
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Perkins School for the Blind; the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 17 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
2/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $1,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE: $750 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEEHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $250 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTHE BOSTON GLOBE FOUNDATION INC: $250 · OtherTHE BOSTON GLOBE FOUNDATION INCAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $250 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION…PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $209 · OtherPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INCPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $1,000 · EducationPERKINS SCHOOL FOR …NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $500 · EducationNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC…WGBH Educational Foundation: $1,000 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational …ASSEMBLY OF TURKISH AMERICAN ASSOCIATIONS: $250 · Arts & CultureASSEMBLY OF TURKI…THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC: $104 · Arts & CultureTHE ACADEMY OF AM…PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $520 · Public BenefitPUBLIC CITIZE…FCNL EDUCATION FUND: $500 · Public BenefitFCNL EDUCATIO…MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETT…GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $500 · Human ServicesHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $250 · International
Other$3,209Education$1,500Arts & Culture$1,354Public Benefit$1,020Environment$1,000Human Services$500International$250

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFCNL EDUCATION FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $209 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC: $104 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 17 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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