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Who funds large arts and culture organizations
The funders that back large arts and culture organizations are specialists, not generalists: Friday Foundation gives them 30.2× the national rate, with 99% of its grants going here. Large arts and culture institutions draw a deep funder base, 15 on average, so the competition for their attention is intense.
The short version
- 24,710 funders gave $30.5B to 1,671 large arts and culture organizations (large ($10M and up)) across recent IRS filings.
- The most focused funder is Friday Foundation, giving 30.2× the national rate to large arts and culture organizations.
- The largest non-DAF funder is Academy Foundation, at $594M.
- The large arts and culture organization drawing the most is Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, at $1.2B.
Funders most focused on large arts and culture organizations
Not the biggest checks, the most committed: each gives this size and cause an outsized share of its budget against the national rate, shrunk toward that rate so a small specialist needs real volume to rank.
Largest funders by dollars
Real grantmakers giving the most to large arts and culture organizations (donor-advised and mega-funds excluded).
Large arts and culture organizations that draw the most
Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.
Questions and answers
- How do I find funders for a large arts and culture nonprofit?
- Start with the funders most focused on large arts and culture organizations, currently Friday Foundation, The Greenwich Collection Ltd, Npr Foundation. Donor-advised funds and mega-funds are excluded, so these are funders that genuinely back organizations your size, not pass-through accounts.
- What counts as a large organization here?
- Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: large ($10M and up). Cause is where each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear.
- How much grant money goes to large arts and culture organizations?
- $30.5B reached 1,671 large arts and culture organizations from 24,710 funders. Money parked in the regranting layer is netted out.
- How recent is this data?
- It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings across recent fiscal years. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.
More from the funding graph
Size is median total revenue; each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear. Read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML across recent fiscal years, among (c)(3) funders and recipients resolved by EIN, with the regranting layer netted out. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.