The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Grants

Private foundation · New York, NY · EIN 13-6043471 · IRS 990-PF filings through tax year 2024 · Invitation only: no unsolicited applications

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation is a private foundation based in New York, NY (EIN 13-6043471). Its IRS Form 990-PF filings through tax year 2024 report $1.2M paid in 62 grants, with a median grant of $19.4K. The most recent filing reports total assets of $73.5M. It reports that it gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited applications.

Foundation website (as filed with the IRS) · hfg.org

Total grants paid: $1.2M
Grants reported: 62
Typical grant: $19.4K
Future commitments: $843.3K
Total assets: $73.5M

Future commitments are grants the foundation has reported but not yet paid.

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This foundation reports on its 990-PF that it only makes contributions to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited applications. The same filing also names deadlines, application materials or an application link. Those are kept under Original filing text, may be out of date, and are not an invitation to apply; check with the foundation first.

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Contact: Joel Wallman
Address: 120 West 45Th Street 25Th Floor New York, NY, 10036
Phone: (646) 428-0971
Restrictions: See attachment b

Original filing text

Contact: JOEL WALLMAN
Address: 120 WEST 45TH STREET 25TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NY, 10036
Phone: 6464280971
Deadlines: FEBRUARY 1ST AND AUGUST 1ST
Application materials: SEE ATTACHMENT B
Restrictions: SEE ATTACHMENT B

Reported organization name: THE HARRY FRANK GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION

Where The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation gives

States of grant recipients reported on the foundation's 990-PF filings, by dollars received.

New York$272.5K District of Columbia$126.7K Massachusetts$116.7K California$75K Illinois$50.7K

Largest reported grants

Historical awards reported to the IRS. These are examples of past giving, not open opportunities.

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	Location	Purpose
Salzburg Global	Washington, DC	Salzburg global seminar 2023	Tax year 20242024	$125K
John Jay College of Criminal Justice	New York, NY	Justice at the crossroads	Tax year 20242024	$50K
Boston University	Boston, MA	Assessing mental distress, relative loneness, ideology, and leakage in the parents4peace dataset	Tax year 20242024	$45K
Clark University	Worcester, MA	Erasing refugees: how camps became killing fields in the first congo war	Tax year 20242024	$45K
Washington State University	Pullman, WA	At the root of lethal violence: the french death investigation system and the accuracy of mortality statistics in violence prevention	Tax year 20242024	$44.8K
Arizona State University	Tempe, AZ	Pre- and post-resettlement drivers of intimate partner violence among afghan refugees in the united states	Tax year 20242024	$44.5K
Teachers College	New York, NY	2024 national research conference on firearm injury prevention	Tax year 20242024	$40K
Tel Aviv University	Tel Aviv	Economic opportunities, criminal activity, and deterrence: evidence from the palestinian-arab minority in israel	Tax year 20242024	$39.8K
University of Texas	Austin, TX	Police collusion and drug violence: what is the relationship?	Tax year 20242024	$39K
Rutgers the State University	Newark, NJ	"never again! And the problem of prevention	Tax year 20242024	$37.8K
Greg Berman	Brooklyn, NY	Democracy project (distinguished fellow of practice)	Tax year 20242024	$37.5K
University of Kent	Canterbury	Pro-government militias as social and political actors and their impact on governance and security orders	Tax year 20242024	$37.1K
University of Quebec in Montreal	Montreal	Slave-raiders and boko haram on the border	Tax year 20242024	$36.9K
Juan Luna	Santiago DE Chile	Organized crime, state crises, and the consolidation of violent democracies	Tax year 20242024	$35K
New York University	New York, NY	What social science research reveals about the role of social media in fostering political violence	Tax year 20242024	$30K
University of Essex	Colchester, ESSEX	Behind closed doors: trajectories to violence in intimate interaction	Tax year 20242024	$29.2K
Fund for the City of NY (Vital City)	New York, NY	The nuts and bolts: how to prevent and respond to gun violence	Tax year 20242024	$25K
Thomas Goldstein	Berkeley, CA	Democracy project (distinguished fellow of practice)	Tax year 20242024	$25K
Andrew Roskos-Ewoldsen	Davis, CA	Do unto others: exploring the role of reciprocity in international cooperation and conflict	Tax year 20242024	$25K
Eddy Yeung	Decatur, GA	Propaganda as provocation: how autocrats use political rhetoric to impede democratic uprisings	Tax year 20242024	$25K
Marko Kljajic	Madison, WI	The challenge of collective victimhood and the promise of mutual acknowledgement after conflict	Tax year 20242024	$25K
Madison Dalton	Wellington, FL	The politics of justice: sexual violence case prosecution in the united states	Tax year 20242024	$25K
Sophie Wunderlich	Chicago, IL	American fascism and its afterlives: the american far right and paramilitarism in a global perspective, 1930-1965	Tax year 20242024	$25K
Ian Glazman-Schillinger	Syracuse, NY	White power goes online: the history of digital hate networks and the federal government's response, 1984-1999	Tax year 20242024	$25K
Madeleine Stevens	Chicago, IL	Weaponizing uncertainty: the politics of disappearance in argentina, colombia, and mexico	Tax year 20242024	$25K

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Figures are aggregated from The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation's IRS Form 990-PF electronic filings (1 filing on file, most recent tax year 2024). Totals reflect grants the foundation reported as paid, and can lag the current year because foundations file annually and often on extension. Source: IRS 990-PF filing on ProPublica. Raw e-file archive (ZIP) — a large IRS yearly archive download.

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