· Private foundation
The Debra and Jeffrey Geller Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOLOMON GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $18,800 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL | $6,000 |
| THE CLARK FUND | $6,000 |
| PUBLIC THEATER | $5,500 |
| PUBLIC ART FUND | $5,000 |
| NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL | $3,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $3,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER | $1,000 |
| PARISH ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SOUTH HAMPTON VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART8× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +161%
- SRSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +43%
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE8× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $2k
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +115%- TBTEMPLE B NAI ISRAELone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
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.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.
The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
The long island museum is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages with an understanding and enjoyment of american art, history and carriages as expressed through the heritage of long island and its diverse communities.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The mission of the national museum of women in the arts is to collect, conserve and elevate the achievements of women artists from all nationalities and to educate the public on their outstanding accomplishments. we strive to accomplish…
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ART FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPPAQUA VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORP INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CASTLE PATROLMANS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds BAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds JBI INTERNATIONAL 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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Debra and Jeffrey Geller Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Debra and Jeffrey Geller Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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