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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.

$8.1M
Granted FY2023
223
Grants FY2023
26
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$22MEducation$3.6MHealth$3.2MPhilanthropy$2.9MCivil Rights$2.5MEmployment$1.1MEnvironment$891kInternational$846kOther$0
02FY2023 · 223 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 223 grants below total $5,868,494, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,099,644 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,231,150 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
$10,000
Median grant
26
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Studio In A School Association$1,085,000
Miss Porter's School$250,000
Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc.$244,000
ARRAY Alliance$100,000
Climate Museum, The$100,000
Clooney Foundation for Justice$100,000
Access Reproductive Care Southeast (ARC Southeast)$100,000
American Academy in Rome$97,900
Brooklyn Museum of Art$75,000
Fountain House$60,000
Studio Museum in Harlem$52,200
New York Consolidated, Inc.$50,000
New York Stem Cell Foundation$50,000
World Jewish Congress, American Section$50,000
World Monuments Fund$50,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$31M · 248 repeat orgs$9.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

248
133

Total granted

$31M
$7.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+17%

Still filing today

79%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SI
    STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $3.3M · revenue +92%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $2.1M · revenue +158% · 65% of their budget
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $400k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • AG
    Agnes Gund Charitable Gift Fund #1159490
    one grant, 2019 · $2.3M
  • GF
    Groundswell Fund
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -25%
  • KENYON COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +37%
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.

03Its field

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.

1
Berggruen Institute
Education
2
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
3
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
4
Museum of Modern Art

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)

Arts & Culture
5
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

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.

Arts & Culture
6
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
7
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
8
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Artpace Inc (Audit)

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.

Arts & Culture
10
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
11
The Asia Society

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.

International
12
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

348 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
62
Early backer (in before they grew)
338/348
Grantees still filing
229/348
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MoMA - P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center: $3,577,070 · OtherMoMA - P.S. 1 Contemporary Art CenterSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $3,277,989 · OtherSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCAgnes Gund Charitable Gift Fund #1159490: $2,250,000 · OtherAgnes Gund Charitable Gift Fund #1159490Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc.: $1,015,452 · OtherFoundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc.+80 more: $8,525,488 · Other+80 moreCENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP INC: $2,125,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHI…ARRAY ALLIANCE INC: $600,000 · Arts & CultureARRAY ALLIANCE INCSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $400,000 · Arts & CultureSKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC: $341,000 · Arts & Culture+69 more: $6,744,575 · Arts & Culture+69 moreKENYON COLLEGE: $1,000,000 · EducationMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $315,000 · EducationSpelman College: $250,000 · EducationJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $232,500 · EducationSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 · Education+16 more: $1,017,085 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $1,300,000 · HealthFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $322,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $300,000 · HealthNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Health+4 more: $205,000 · HealthGroundswell Fund: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $235,000 · PhilanthropyRUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST: $170,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $99,500 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $1,000,000 · EmploymentOCEANA INC: $219,000 · EnvironmentMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $157,000 · EnvironmentNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $84,900 · EnvironmentDESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC: $53,000 · EnvironmentALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $52,500 · EnvironmentNational Network of Abortion Funds: $50,000 · EnvironmentLOUISIANA ABORTION FUND: $50,000 · EnvironmentNORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND: $50,000 · Environment
Other$18,645,999Arts & Culture$10,210,575Education$2,919,585Health$2,227,500Philanthropy$1,604,500Employment$1,000,000Environment$716,400

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $3,277,989 over 4y, 20% of budgetCENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP INC: $2,125,000 over 4y, 65% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $1,300,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetGroundswell Fund: $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetARRAY ALLIANCE INC: $600,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $400,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC: $341,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INC: $329,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $322,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $317,300 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $315,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $274,250 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $259,800 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSpelman College: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $235,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $232,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOCEANA INC: $219,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $213,015 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies: $200,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $196,200 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $191,028 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC ART FUND INC: $191,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $188,369 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $187,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: $181,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $172,536 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST: $170,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $165,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMary Miss - City as Living Laboratory: $160,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $157,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE NEW PRESS INC: $154,850 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetDENNISTON HILL CORP: $152,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetGRABHORN INSTITUTE: $150,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $148,400 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMAYSLES INSTITUTE INC: $145,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetSTORM KING ART CENTER: $140,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $111,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPERFORMA INC: $110,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCLOONEY FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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 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 KENYON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Arison Arts FoundationThe Ford FoundationThe Andrew W Mellon F…May and Samuel Rudin …Lily Auchincloss Foun…The Andy Warhol Found…The New York Communit…Arnhold Foundation IncThe Horace W Goldsmit…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Rockefeller Brothers …The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc
Arison Arts FoundationFL77.5× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Ag Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ag Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 437 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $3.9M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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