No comparison is shown for John Simon Guggenheim Memorial, because grantee names in these filings could not be matched reliably enough; there are too few consecutive filing years to compare against; there are too few grantees to compute a stable figure.
Publishing a figure on that basis could read as open when it is not, so none is given.
The application status below comes straight from the filing and is unaffected.
What the filing does say
Accepts unsolicited
Yes
Inferred from the filing
Match rate
0.1%
85% needed before a figure is published
Filing years on file
5
Consecutive returns
How to read this
Every US private foundation files Form 990-PF, and Part XV of that return itemises each
grant it paid, with the recipient's name. Lining those lists up across filing years shows
which organizations were funded for the first time.
That does work the application checkbox cannot. Whether a foundation says it accepts
unsolicited proposals is self-reported and never audited. The grant ledger is behaviour.
What this page does not tell you. Whether your work fits what
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial funds — no tax return contains that. Whether anyone on your board already knows a
trustee, which is how a great deal of foundation money actually moves. Or anything that has
changed since the last filing, which runs twelve to twenty-four months behind.
Flagged for review.
A high share of this funder's recipients appear in only one year. That is what genuine
turnover looks like, and also what a renamed grantee looks like, so the figure above may be
overstated. Match rate cannot distinguish the two.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years
2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 Excludes. Grants approved for future payment, which the return lists separately Computed. 2026-08-03 · Next recompute. 2026-11-01 Distribution. GivingTuesday Data Lake mirror of the IRS e-file corpus
If this is your foundation.
Every figure here comes from your own filings. If one looks wrong I would rather hear it
than keep publishing it — write to me
and I will show you the filings and the arithmetic behind it, and correct it if it is off.