How much does The Guller Foundation give?

The Guller Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $404,164 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.

What does The Guller Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (25%), Religion (23%), Education (23%).

Who are The Guller Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Jewish Community Center ($267k), Congregation Bnai Amoona ($185k), Kol Rinah ($135k).

Does The Guller Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Guller Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Guller Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chod Family Foundation, Edward Jones Foundation, Samuel Honigberg Foundation Inc.

Where is The Guller Foundation based?

The Guller Foundation is based in MO.

The Guller Foundation

The Guller Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Guller Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$404k

Granted FY2022

Grants FY2022

States reached

$135k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$349kReligion$329kEducation$322kHuman Services$280kHealth$77kYouth Development$25kScience & Tech$10kArts & Culture$8kOther$0

02FY2022 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

Under $10k2 grants · $2k
$10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$50k–250k3 grants · $389k

$120,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
KOL RINAH	$134,500
CONGREGATION B'NAI AMOONA	$134,500
WASHINGTON UNIVERSTIY	$120,000
ESSEX CARES	$13,446
ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$1,000
SIDNEY & BOBETTE GULLER FAMILY FOUNDATION	$718

02The need

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 (FY17–21, $267k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

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 grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.2M · 14 repeat orgs$167k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-19%

+52%

Still filing today

43%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

JF
JEWISH FEDERATION OF STL
2× · 2020–2021 · $330k
WU
WASHINGTON UNIVERSTIY
6× · 2017–2022 · $270k
JC
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
4× · 2017–2021 · $267k · revenue -19%

Funded once

JA
J ASSOCIATES
one grant, 2020 · $10k
GS
GREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC
one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +2%
SL
ST LOUIS SENIOR OLYMPICS
one grant, 2019 · $2k

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.

04Its 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.

St Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association

Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…

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St Louis Jewish Light

The st. louis jewish light is a non-profit, independent news source whose mission is to inform, inspire, educate, and connect the st. louis jewish community.

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Missouri Centers for Independent Living

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Ssm Health Care Group

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.

Health

St Louis Council of Construction Consumers

The slc3 is a community of design and construction industry professionals with a common interest in the betterment of our region through prioritizing innovation, continuing education, equity empowerment and all-inclusive workforce…

Community Improvement

Ssm-Sluh Inc

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.

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Neighborhood Solidarity Fund

Invest stl facilitates investment in the power of people and their neighborhoods to develop communities of justice and opportunity in places that continue to endure the legacy of systemic anti-black racism.

Community Improvement

Ssm Health Care St Louis

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.

Health

Missouri Athletic Club Preservation Foundation

The foundation engages in activities to preserve & memorialize the history and architecture of st. louis with particular focus on the bldg. occupied by the missouri athletic club.

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St louis community credit union

Voluntary cooperative non-profit credit union providing a source of credit at a fair & reasonable rate of interest earnings savings financial benefits & services to our members and an opportunity to improve their economic & social…

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Missouri Gun Rights

We have advocated for the second amendment rights of all law abiding citizens of missouri.

Civil Rights

Lubin - Green Foundation

Support of the jewish federation functions and activities in the st. louis region and elsewhere.

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The St Louis Men's Group Against Cancer; the most unlike its peers is Sidney & Bobette Guller Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 21 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/9

Grantees still filing

5/9

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,045,321Human Services$266,500Education$52,000Youth Development$25,000Arts & Culture$7,718Health$5,000

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.

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.

The Chod Family FoundationMO15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chod Family Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Samuel Honigberg Foundation Inc · Millstone Foundation · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Centene Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get 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 · 0–5%

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Guller Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Guller Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home