· Private foundation
The Guston Fund
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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC | $100,000 |
| MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC | $50,000 |
| NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME | $20,000 |
| BROOKLYN RAIL INC | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR CULTURAL INNOVATION | $20,000 |
| CORPORATION OF YADDO | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER NEW YORK | $10,000 |
| ASPEN INSTITUTE INC | $10,000 |
| JEWISH MUSEUM | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +14% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INC4× · 2022–2025 · $490k · revenue +31%
- NYNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL3× · 2023–2025 · $225k · revenue +14%
- TJTHE JEWISH MUSEUM2× · 2024–2025 · $105k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- TBThe Broad Institute Incone grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue +2%
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $157k · revenue -6%- MLMILDRED LANE KEMPER ART MUSEUMone grant, 2019 · $60k
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
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.
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 mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
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 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).
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…
A contemporary art space that provides direct support to artists through exhibition opportunities, live commissions, and public programs. in recent years, the exhibition program has grown to present six major exhibitions per year…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 15 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 AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN RAIL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF YADDO ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
- Who funds United States Artists Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Center for Cultural Innovation ↗
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: Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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 Guston Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Guston Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
- Vermont Studio Center Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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