· Private foundation
The Robert & Lois Geller 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $10,299 |
| GIRLS INC | $5,150 |
| CAMBODIAN -AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR | $5,000 |
| GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER | $2,000 |
| PHILARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY | $1,200 |
| THE DOE FUND INC | $1,060 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAeL PHIL | $1,040 |
| HILLEL INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THEFIREORG | $1,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER | $1,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| 9-11 MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% 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 +37% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GIGIRLS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +27%
- CFCAMBODIAN-AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +98% · 34% of their budget
- GLGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $13k · revenue +182%
Funded once
- CSCENTRAL SYNAGOGUEone grant, 2017 · $6k
- WWOMANKINDone grant, 2022 · $5k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ROYAL PHILATELIC SOCIETY LONDON INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -36%
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.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The new york society library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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 institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
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…
See schedule onylcvef's mission is to educate, engage and empower new yorkers to be effective advocates on behalf of the environment from clean energy and funding for parks, to solid waste and green buildings. first, we educate new yorkers…
How this is measured
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 48 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 NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBODIAN-AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Choral Society of the Hamptons & South Fork Chamber Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GROUP FOR THE EAST END INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL PHILATELIC SOCIETY LONDON INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN TOPICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON LIBRARY IN BRIDGEHAMPTON 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: Alfred & Jane Ross Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Robert & Lois Geller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert & Lois Geller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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