· Private foundation
The Ellen and Andrew G Celli 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT | $22,500 |
| REPRIEVE US INC | $20,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| CIRCUIT ARTS | $2,750 |
| CHICKEN & EGG PICTURES | $2,500 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $1,500 |
| THE AFYA FOUNDATION | $1,037 |
| GALVANIZE USA | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CITY PARKS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER | $1,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE MEETING HOUSE | $1,000 |
| ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 10 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PAPUBLIC ART FUND INC2× · 2022–2023 · $101k · revenue +34%
- GSGRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC4× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +32%
- TATHE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM INC3× · 2022–2024 · $29k · revenue +142%
Funded once
- MGMOMA GIVING 2127089698one grant, 2022 · $7k
- SLSTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +34%
- MSMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Public Art Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pellettieri Stone Carvers Academy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 106 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PUBLIC ART FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds REPRIEVE (US) ↗
- Who funds THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC ↗
- Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCUIT ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ARTSCONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD ↗
- Who funds STUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMER CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE - SOUTHEAST ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD FIRST PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds FORWARD TN ↗
- Who funds THE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · Appleman Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Open Society Institute · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Daniel M Neidich & Brooke Garber Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Ellen and Andrew G Celli Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Circuit Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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