· Private foundation
Al Held Foundation Inc
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIVER VALLEY ARTS COLLECTIVE INC | $47,100 |
| BROOKLYN RAIL INC | $10,000 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AAMC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NXTHVN | $5,000 |
| RESERVOIR FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| BENNINGTON COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS | $4,000 |
| STEVEN MYRON HOLL FOUNDATION INC | $3,000 |
| BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 50% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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 +92% since the first grant, against +67% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- RVRIVER VALLEY ARTS COLLECTIVE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $177k · revenue +106% · 41% of their budget
- TBTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +277%
- SISTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- DMDAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $150k
United States Artists Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +67%- SSSKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +144%
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 new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…
The florence acadamy of art was founed in 1991 by daniel graves (see schedule o for details).
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…
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
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 Steven Myron Holl Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 22 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
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 RIVER VALLEY ARTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds United States Artists Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN RAIL INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AAMC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NXTHVN INC ↗
- Who funds RESERVOIR FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
- Who funds STEVEN MYRON HOLL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
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: Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Al Held Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Nxthvn Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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