· Private foundation
The Guela Charitable Trust
Its FY2023 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 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k9 grants · $24k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FUNDER NETWORK | $71,500 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $8,000 |
| CHABAD OF STONYBROOK | $7,500 |
| CHABAD OF THE BERKSHIRES | $3,750 |
| LINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE | $2,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| STOCKBRIDGE BOWL ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| DOROT | $360 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO | $150 |
| NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION | $100 |
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 (FY20–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NYNEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC2× · 2017–2018 · $125k · revenue +131%
- TSTHE STOCKBRIDGE BOWL ASSOCIATION2× · 2020–2021 · $700 · revenue +28%
- NYNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO2× · 2020–2021 · $350 · revenue +4%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BNEI BRAK HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $200k
- FFJCone grant, 2017 · $125k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $101k
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 mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…
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 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 institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 32 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 JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MIKLAT COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST ↗
- Who funds THE STOCKBRIDGE BOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTS OF THE FATHER OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds DOROT INC ↗
- Who funds Project Ezra ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Guela Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Guela Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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