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Ag Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 223 grants below total $5,868,494 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,099,644 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,231,150 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k78 grants · $305k
- $10k–50k110 grants · $2.1M
- $50k–250k33 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Studio In A School Association | $1,085,000 |
| Miss Porter's School | $250,000 |
| Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc. | $244,000 |
| Clooney Foundation for Justice | $100,000 |
| ARRAY Alliance | $100,000 |
| Access Reproductive Care Southeast (ARC Southeast) | $100,000 |
| Climate Museum, The | $100,000 |
| American Academy in Rome | $97,900 |
| Brooklyn Museum of Art | $75,000 |
| Fountain House | $60,000 |
| Studio Museum in Harlem | $52,200 |
| Academy Museum Foundation | $50,000 |
| Missouri Abortion Fund | $50,000 |
| Grabhorn Institute | $50,000 |
| Oklahoma Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, Inc. | $50,000 |
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
248 repeat relationships — 172 still active in FY2023, 76 since wound down; 47 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SISTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $3.3M · revenue +92%
- CFCENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP INC4× · 2019–2022 · $2.1M · revenue +158% · 65% of their budget
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION5× · 2019–2023 · $400k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- AGAgnes Gund Charitable Gift Fund #1159490one grant, 2019 · $2.3M
- GFGroundswell Fundone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -25%
CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +34%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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 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)
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.
Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Art-Z Group Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
348 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 348 of the 437 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds Groundswell Fund ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ARRAY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds New Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ART FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Arison Arts Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The New York Community Trust · Arnhold Foundation Inc · The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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