· Private foundation
The Guston 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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| MAVERICK CONCERTS | $5,000 |
| URBAN RURAL ACTION | $2,500 |
| WORLD FOOD PROGRAM | $2,500 |
| AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA | $2,500 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC | $2,500 |
| CLARK ART INSTITUTE | $1,500 |
| MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $1,000 |
| WILLIAMSTOWN HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC | $500 |
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 (FY25–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +41% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 7 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +79%- MCMAVERICK CONCERTS INC3× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +62%
MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $9k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTONone grant, 2022 · $100k
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCHone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -15%
- NWNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +17%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Founded in 1780, the american academy of arts and sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together "to…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The american federation of arts initiates and organizes a national and international program of art exhibitions, publications, and educational activities to benefit the museum community and enrich the public's experience and understanding…
See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 25 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds MAVERICK CONCERTS INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Jazz Foundation of America Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ALIMA USA INC ↗
- Who funds Urban Rural Action ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSTOWN HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ACADEMY 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 · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Guston Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Guston Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- New World Symphony Inc: 0% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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