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Alex Katz Foundation Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.3M
Granted FY2021
44
Grants FY2021
7
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.

Arts & Culture$13MPhilanthropy$450kEnvironment$144kEducation$57kReligion$4kInternational$2kOther$0
02FY2021 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k9 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $433k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.9M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$111M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART$225,000
FILM FORUM INC$200,000
COOPER UNION$200,000
PAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC$200,000
THE WOOSTER GROUP$200,000
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC$100,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$100,000
NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC$100,000
NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC$100,000
BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART$96,000
THE HOUSE FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS$75,000
PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART$60,000
SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULTURE$50,000
BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART$50,000
FILM FORUM INC$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART: $160k → 11%SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $151k → 10%ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY: $480k → 13%NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $200k → 17%THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM: $320k → 20%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $128k → 16%DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART: $173k → 21%HIGH MUSEUM OF ART ATLANTA: $200k → 13%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $251k → 14%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $630k → 11%BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $96k → 7%COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $1.0M → 12%CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART: $144k → 11%SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $108k → 10%ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY: $200k → 13%NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $100k → 17%THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM: $200k → 20%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $87k → 16%DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART: $76k → 21%HIGH MUSEUM OF ART ATLANTA: $128k → 13%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $131k → 14%COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $420k → 12%CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART: $120k → 11%SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $96k → 10%NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $100k → 17%THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM: $120k → 20%DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART: $75k → 21%HIGH MUSEUM OF ART ATLANTA: $100k → 13%COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $225k → 12%SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $76k → 10%THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM: $88k → 20%COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $220k → 12%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $200k → 20%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $100k → 20%FILM FORUM INC: $200k → 17%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $100k → 17%FILM FORUM INC: $75k → 17%COOPER UNION: $250k → 17%COOPER UNION: $200k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $100k → 17%SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $500k → 17%SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $250k → 17%PAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $200k → 17%PAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $200k → 17%THE WOOSTER GROUP: $200k → 17%THE WOOSTER GROUP: $200k → 17%THE WOOSTER GROUP: $150k → 17%THE HOUSE FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $75k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of Alex Katz Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 43% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 40% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Alex Katz Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.7% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 30 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2021, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
15

Total granted

$12M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+14%

Still filing today

73%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $333k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalOther

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

  • RW
    ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $851k · revenue +51%
  • SR
    SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $824k · revenue +4%
  • TB
    THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
    2× · 2018–2020 · $768k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • NG
    National Gallery of Art
    one grant, 2018 · $630k · revenue +14%
  • PM
    PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2019 · $243k · revenue -15%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +58%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Museum of the City of New York

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…

Arts & Culture
2
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
3
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
4
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
5
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
6
Berggruen Institute
Education
7
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
8
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
9
The Studio Museum in Harlem

The studio museum in harlem is a contemporary art museum that focuses on the work of artists of african descent - as well as work that has been inspired and influenced by african culture - past and present; through its exhibitions,…

Arts & Culture
10
The National Museum of Women in the Arts

The mission of the national museum of women in the arts is to collect, conserve and elevate the achievements of women artists from all nationalities and to educate the public on their outstanding accomplishments. we strive to accomplish…

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11
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
12
San Diego Museum of Art

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

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and the most unlike its peers is The Living Theater Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 60 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%62%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%80%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,529

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.

05the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
28/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $850,807 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INCBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY — $829,350 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMYSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION — $823,515 · Arts & CultureSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATIONTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $768,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCESNational Gallery of Art — $630,000 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery of ArtTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $616,840 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTSTHE WOOSTER GROUP INC — $585,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WOOSTER GROUP INCSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $535,060 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ARTNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC — $459,000 · Arts & CultureFILM FORUM INC — $405,000 · Arts & CulturePAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART — $360,560 · Arts & Culture+14 more — $1,377,145 · Arts & Culture+14 moreCOLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART — $2,405,255 · OtherCOLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ARTCARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART — $468,000 · OtherCARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ARTCOOPER UNION — $450,000 · OtherCOOPER UNIONBOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART — $374,300 · OtherBOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ARTBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC — $303,000 · OtherBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC+16 more — $599,375 · Other+16 moreTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $441,893 · Education+2 more — $1,750 · EducationAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME — $2,000 · International
Arts & Culture$8,640,277Other$4,599,930Education$443,643International$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $850,807 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY — $829,350 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION — $823,515 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $768,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNational Gallery of Art — $630,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $616,840 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WOOSTER GROUP INC — $585,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $535,060 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC — $459,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $441,893 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFILM FORUM INC — $405,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetPAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART — $360,560 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC — $303,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPortland Museum of Art — $248,640 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $242,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $241,005 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOUSE FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC — $165,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $140,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL — $115,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC — $105,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $53,400 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTHE POETRY PROJECT LTD — $50,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INC — $36,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMCNAY ART MUSEUM — $35,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $14,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Ford FoundationJewish Communal FundThe Gladys Krieble De…The Howard Gilman Fou…The Andrew W Mellon F…The New York Communit…Low Road FoundationJerome Foundation IncHelen Frankenthaler F…Ag FoundationThe Fan Fox and Lesli…The Cowles Charitable…
The Ford FoundationNY18.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Low Road Foundation · Jerome Foundation Inc · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · Ag Foundation · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · The Cowles Charitable Trust

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 Alex Katz 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Alex Katz Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Alex Katz Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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