· Private foundation
The Gelsomina Charitable 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 $10k11 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROLOLITAN OPERA | $10,000 |
| CARNEGIE HALL CORP | $4,000 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| MOMA MUSEUM | $550 |
| MOMA MUSEUM | $550 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $500 |
| CITY HARVEST | $500 |
| METROPLOITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $500 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $500 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $500 |
| GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM | $450 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those 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 +3% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MHMANY HOPES INC3× · 2018–2020 · $17k · revenue +253%
- TCTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION3× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue +17%
- LRLONGHOUSE RESERVE3× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- OHONE HOMES MANY HOPESone grant, 2017 · $18k
- TCTHE CHASING MS CHARITABLE FOUNDATIOone grant, 2023 · $2k
- PEPERFECT EARTH PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +139%
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.
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How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 26 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 MANY HOPES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LONGHOUSE RESERVE ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds PERFECT EARTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds VICTOR D'AMICO INSTITUTE OF ART ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gelsomina Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gelsomina Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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